Metafilm

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Similar to metafiction in technique, metafilm is a style of film-making which presents the film as a story about film production.

Examples of films of this type include (Chronological order):

• 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)
• Epidemic (Lars von Trier, 1987)
• Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven, 1994)
• Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo, 1995)
• Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
• Scream 3 (Wes Craven, 2000)
• Bowfinger (Frank Oz, 1999)
• Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999)
• 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)
• The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)
• Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)

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