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What are Your Favourite Self-Reflexive and Meta Films?

These days I am on a self-reflexive cinema kick. I have becoming increasingly fascinated by metafilms and metafiction in general. As I explore the differences of film, theatre, and literature, I am ever more intrigued when an artwork draws attention to itself. What caught me in the television show, Modern Family, was the constant breaking of the fourth wall as the characters glance up at the camera at opportune or infortunate moments. This technique seems to reconnect with an audience in a why not too dissimilar from how actors perform in interplay with the audience. Similarly, Abed and Troy's In the Morning segments from the show Community just do something so right. I am trying to expand my repertoire of films and programmes in this genre; therefore, I would like to put it to you, Hivemind, for your own favourites. Which self-reflexive films have you enjoyed and what scenes stuck out to you?

Here are a few to get you started:

• Adaption
• Stranger than fiction
• Synecdoche
• Tropic Thunder
• 8½ (1963)
• Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
• Vanya on 42nd Street
• Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Spaceballs
• Inception
• Barton Fink
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• Breathless (1960)
• Inglourious Basterds
• eXistenZ