Metafilm
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Similar to metafiction in technique, metafilm is a style of filmmaking which presents the film as a story about its own production.
Examples of films of this type include (Chronological order):
- Hellzapoppin' (H. C. Potter, 1941)
- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
- La Ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
- 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
- Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
- Day for Night (François Truffaut, 1973)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
- Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
- Silent Movie (Mel Brooks, 1976)
- The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979)
- Epidemic (Lars von Trier, 1987)
- Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)
- Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
- Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
- The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)
- Bowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999)
- Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999)
- Scream 3 (Wes Craven, 2000)
- Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige, 2000)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
- Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
- Seed of Chucky (Don Mancini, 2004)
- A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006)
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Scott Glosserman, 2006)
- On The Road With Judas (J.J. Lask, 2007)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
- Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
- Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)
- The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
- My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis, 2011)
- Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
- Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh, 2012)
- Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
- Drifts (Ricardo Costa, 2013)
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