Postmodernist film discussion

[zorbonaut]

I find that I am often drawn to postmodern films, art, literature and music and I wondered if anyone else feels the same way.

Here are a link that list some popular postmodern films:

http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2014/20...ernist-movies/

How would you define postmodern film? What are some of your favorites and why?


For me, Paul Thomas Anderson's, Magnolia is a film that is on the top of my list. PTA'S integration of literature, religious allusions, non-linear storytelling and music mesmerized me the first time I watched it in the theater.

The Big Lebowski is also one that I only becomes more important to me as time goes on.

One of the lesser known films that I have always been drawn to is Mr. Nobody. It's focus on time, immortality, chance/choice and memory had me within the first few frames.

I could continue to list films that would fall into the area of postmodern film, but I thought this would be a good place to discuss these types of films.

[Foggy]

I almost feel like Postmodernism has gotten to a point where it's pastiche of itself, particularly in films. Somewhere amongst everything there's a comment upon itself, it's own construction and place within the world with a cynical glaze.

I've just watched Los Angeles Plays Itself today as that often goes in to comment how the city itself has now becomes more fictionalised that the stories told there. Where rumour and myth inspire and wind up misinterpreting, or how subconscious it's own presentation has become.

[EvaDK]

I struggle with the concept of Postmodern films, because those films that seem to fall within the most known and broad definition of the term, can be very, very different from each other.

If the only requirement for being considered 'Postmodern' is, for example, the director experimenting with the narrative, then there are thousands of films you can label as Postmodern, film that would otherwise never be compared to each other.