"Kaizō Hayashi’s melancholic, metacinematic reverie sets a nerdish, noirish ‘tec investigating a silent-era mystery": TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (1986) is available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video
#Metacinema #SilentEra #FilmNoir #Chanbara #LostYouth https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/30/to-sleep-so-as-to-dream-1986

"genre-fluid film-within-a-film is a monstrously meta memorial to the director’s father": James Cullen Bressack's MURDER, ANYONE? (2022) will be on digital in the US from 7 Feb via Uncork'd Entertainment
#FilmNoir #Murder #ArtTheft #Metacinema #CreativeProcess
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/18/murder-anyone-2022

"all at once metacinematic satire, psychogeographical experiment and fanciful ghost story rooted in real history": Johannes Grenzfurthner's sophisticated RAZZENNEST (2022) provides its own audio commentary. Screens 11.59pm today at Film Maudit 2.0
#Horror #Metacinema #ThirtyYearsWar #Rohrwald #Austria #LosAngeles
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/01/razzennest-2022/

"Sixties-style gothic freakout stages and restages a treacherous trap of patriarchy in a retro-furnished castle": Kevin Kopacka's DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES (2021) is on US #Shudder from today. Recommended.
#Horror #Gothic #MetaCinema https://projectedfigures.com/2022/06/03/dawn-breaks-behind-the-eyes-hinter-den-augen-die-dammerung-2021/

“a low-budget horror film set is cursed by a real carnivorous creature”: Dominic Brunt's comic meta monster movie WOLF MANOR (2022) is on VOD from today via #LightbulbFilms. Review for #SciFiNow
#Horror #Metacinema #Werewolves #LocationShoot
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/wolf-manor-review-frightfest-2022/

"a metacinematic mumblegore treat with the makings of a slasher romance": Jay and Mark Duplass' gently self-skewering low-budget indie Baghead (2008), available on Blu-ray from #101Films #Horror #Slasher #Friendship #IndieFilmmaking #Romance #Metacinema
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/08/baghead-2008

“a low-budget horror film set is cursed by a real carnivorous creature”: Dominic Brunt’s comic meta monster movie WOLF MANOR (2022) is now on DVD from #LightbulbFilms. Review for #SciFiNow
#Horror #Metacinema #Werewolves #FilmShoot https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/wolf-manor-review-frightfest-2022/

"all at once metacinematic satire, psychogeographical experiment and fanciful ghost story rooted in real history": Johannes Grenzfurthner's sophisticated RAZZENNEST (2022) provides its own commentary
#Horror #Metacinema https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/01/razzennest-2022/

The more amateurish Shin’ichirô Ueda’s gonzo meta zom com ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) seems, the more sophisticated it gets. Screens 8.45pm in NFT2, BFI Southbank #InDreamsAreMonsters #Horror #Comedy #SingleTake #Metacinema https://projectedfigures.com/2018/10/11/one-cut-of-the-dead-kamera-o-tomeru-na-2017/

“a low-budget horror film set is cursed by a real carnivorous creature”: Dominic Brunt’s comic meta monster movie WOLF MANOR screens 11.30am at #Grimmfest, ODEON Manchester Great Northern
#InDreamsAreMonsters. Review for #SciFiNow #Horror #Werewolves #Metacinema https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/wolf-manor-review-frightfest-2022/

"...Kim Min-geun’s sophisticated second-chance romance foregrounds the contribution of a location scout’s work to a film. Agreeably self-reflexive and unusually understated in its melodrama, this locates nostalgia, situation and memory at the centre of cinema, and inevitably comes with a strong sense of place."
I'll be introducing DIRECTOR'S INTENTION 6pm tomorrow (14 Nov) at #PicturehouseCentral for the #LondonKoreanFilmFestival
#Metacinema #LocationScout #KoreanCinema
https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/lkff-2022-directors-intention