METACINEMA or METAFILM

Metacinema is literally cinema about cinema, which self-consciously comments on films and the making and watching of them. These self-reflective, multi-layered stories can be about a writer trying to write a screenplay, a filmmaker trying to make a film, a spectator trying to watch a film, or even a character recognizing that they are a character within a film. Metacinema often blurs the lines between fiction and reality and ultimately poses questions about writing, spectatorship, and films in general.

8½
 (ITA, 1962) dir. Federico Fellini

A Star is Born (USA, 1954) dir. George Cukor

Adaptation (USA, 2002)
 dir. Spike Jonze

Ararat (CAN, 2003) dir. Atom Egoyan

Broken Embraces (2009) dir. Pedro Almodovar

Caro Diario (ITA, 1993) dir. Nanni Moretti

Cecil B. Demented (USA, 2000) dir. John Waters

Cinema Paradiso (ITA, 1988) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

Day for Night (FRA, 1973) dir. François Truffaut

Deconstructing Harry (USA, 1997) dir. Woody Allen

Ed Wood (USA, 1994) dir. Tim Burton

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Doc, USA, 1991) dir. Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Doc, FRA, 2009) dir. Serge Bromberg Ruxandra Medrea

Intervista (ITA, 1987) dir. Federico Fellini

Irma Vep (FRA, 1994) dir. Olivier Assayas

La Dolce Vita (ITA, 1963) dir Federico Fellini

Life and Nothing More… (IRAN, 1992) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Living in Oblivion
 (USA, 1995) dir. Tom DiCillo

Man Bites Dog (BEL, 1992) dir. Rémy Belvaux

Notebook on cities and clothes (GER/FRA, 1989) dir. Wim Wenders

Persona
 (SUE, 1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Salaam Cinema (IRAN, 1995); dir Moshen Makhmalbaf

Shadow of the Vampire (UK, 2000) dir. E. Elias Merhige

Singing in the Rain (U.S., 1952); dir Stanley Donen

Stranger than Fiction
 (USA, 2006) dir. Marc Foster

Synecdoche, New York (USA, 2008)
dir. Charlie Kaufman

Contempt (FRA, 1963) dir. Jean-Claude Godard

The French Lieutenant's Woman (USA, 1981) dir. Karel Reisz

The Last Tyccon (USA, 1976) dir. Elia Kazan

The Player (USA, 1992) dir. Robert Altman

The Purple Rose of Cairo (USA, 1985); dir. Woody Allen

The State of Things (GER, 1982) dir. Wim Wenders

Through the Olive Trees (IRAN, 1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Ulysses Gaze (GRE, 1998) dir. Theo Angelopoulos

Voyage in Time (Documentary, ITA/RUS, 1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra