Postmodernist Film - Examples of Postmodernist Film and Filmmakers

Examples of Postmodernist Film and Filmmakers

There are many examples of postmodern films and filmmakers. Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Paris, Texas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Thelma and Louise, Fight Club Mulholland Drive, The Matrix trilogy and Memento are just a handful examples of postmodern cinema in practice.

The Coen brothers, Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Peter Greenaway, François Truffaut, Charlie Kaufman, Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan are a few of the most popular and well-known purveyors of postmodern cinema. The majority of their work demonstrates many of the principles of postmodernist film-making.

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