Metacinema - how self-awareness sucked the fun out of movies

(Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures)Metacinema: how self-awareness sucked the fun out of movies Fri 2 August 2024 11:00, UKThere’s a time and a place for self-awareness in cinema, and when used correctly, it does nothing but increase the enjoyment factor. However, when it’s used as a crutch that doubles as a thinly veiled admission of substandard writing, then it crosses the line from innovation into apathy.Make no mistake about it—there are a number of wonderful films that wink directly to the a...

Something Old - New - Borrowed - Autofictional Film

From High on Films blogThere’s a real thrill in watching a film bend style and form, both captivating and surprising in using a mix of techniques. Even if the narrative ground it covers may seem featureless and generic at first glance, the film offsets expectations by infusing familiar templates with a dash of innovation in its aesthetic choices. What could have been easily predictable and dull turns exciting and invigoratingly fresh. This is what Argentinian filmmaker Hernan Rosselli accompl...

Review: THE FABELMANS, Dreams Can Also Be Fun

Dreams are scary. In The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg puts his own childhood up on the big screen, through the Dream Factory, with the help of many of his regular collaborators, including screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln), John Williams (Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park) and Janusz Kaminski (Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, West Side Story), among others. His story starts from his parents taking him as a young child, Sam, to the movies to see The Greatest Story Ever Tol...

Jordan Peele shares opening credits to Nope’s in-universe sitcom Gordy’s Home

Gordy’s Home![The following contains spoilers for Jordan Peele’s Nope]The mythology of Jordan Peele’s Usheavily leaned on Hands Across America, a real-life fundraising event that did not involve wearing a red jumpsuit and stabbing your doppelgänger but did raise $35 million (nearly half of which actually went to charity!), but for Nope—which debuted at the top of the box office charts this week—Peele invented his own pop culture touchstone to hang the movie on.We’re referring to Gordy’s Home!...

Fucking with Nobody – A meta movie which completely loses itself in its meta-ness

Share this Article Fucking with Nobody is a movie within a movie within a movie within a movie. I think I got the Russian doll right. Even if I haven’t, I don’t think the movie has it down either. Fucking with Nobody, directed by and starring Hannaleena Hauru, starts off as something relatively tame. After losing out on directing a feminist horror movie to her male colleague Kristian (who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend and is currently in a relationship with the scree...

Shame, Stigma and Identification in Black Mirror - Shut Up and Dance

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Vertiginous Hauntings: The Ghosts of Vertigo

Vertiginous Hauntings: The Ghosts of Vertigo. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli & Martine Beugnet - 2019 - Film-Philosophy 23 (3):227-246. While the initial reception of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo was unspectacular, it made its presence felt in a host of other films – from Chris Marker's Sans Soleil, to Brian De Palma's Obsession, and David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.. What seemed to have eluded the critics at the time is that Vertigo is a film about being haunted: by illusive images, turbulent emotions, mot...

Day-Lewis married into Miller Family - REBECCA MILLER