Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE with MUBI: Special thank you to Greg Dember, co-author of for chatting with me for this video. Watch more on their YouTube Channel: @WhatIsMetamodern In this video I dive into what Metamodernism is and what it looks like in film, and chart how the movies have evolved since their modernist origins. Additional Montage Editing by John Rising: @highenquiries // Sources [CC] To see which films I’m referencing, turn on “English (United States) - Movie Titles“ under captions. For regular subtitles select “English“ [1] Misunderstandings and clarifications | Notes on Metamodernism by Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker: [2] - The Metamodernist Manifesto [3] Metamodernism: Oscillation Revisited [4] How ’Everything Everywhere All at Once’ is a love letter to the internet // Further Reading: Notes on Metamodernism: What is Metamodern: // WATCH MORE THOMAS FLIGHT -Ad-Free Videos and Exclusive Content on Nebula: -My Podcast Cinema of Meaning: Ad-Free and early on Nebula: Nebula: Spotify: iTunes: -Rent or Buy My Experimental Documentary: -Read My Newsletter: // SUPPORT MY WORK -Support my channel directly on Patreon: Patrons get access to a discord community, monthly podcast reviews of everything I watch, and more! -Sign up for Nebula using my Link: (using my link helps support my channel financially) // FOLLOW ME -Twitter: -Website: -Letterboxd: -TikTok: @ // CONTACT ME -sponsorship and Business inquiries: thomasflight@ -Questions, feedback, other stuff: contact@ (check out my FAQ as well: ) // GEAR I USE: // Chapters: 00:00 “They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore“ 01:00 What Do They Make Them Like Now? 04:46 The Metamodern Era 05:56 Modernism 12:40 Postmodernism 19:22 Metamodernism 27:44 Why Metamodernism? // Films Referenced: To see which films I’m referencing displayed in the video, turn on “English (United States) - Movie Titles“ under caption settings. Aftersun (2022) Apocalypse Now (1979) Avengers Endgame (2019) As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Badlands (1973) Barton Fink (1991) Blade Runner The Final Cut (1982) Blue Velvet (1986) Babylon (2022) Bo Burnham Inside (2021) Bones and All (2022) Chronicle of a Summer (1961) Eight and a Half (1963) Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) F For Fake (1973) Fargo (1996) Glass Onion (2022) High Noon (1952) Joker (2019) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Meeting the Man James Baldwin in Paris (1970) Mirror (1975) Modern Times (1936) Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974) No Country For Old Men (2007) Nope (2022) Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) Pearl (2021) Pig (2021) Persona (1966) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) Rushmore (1998) San Soleil (1983) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm - Take One (1968) Synecdoche New York (2008) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) The Fabelmans (2022) The French Dispatch (2021) The Long Goodbye (1973) The Martian (2015) The Matrix 4 Resurrections (2022) The Menu (2022) The Souvenir (2019) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Top Gun Maverick (2022) Taxi Driver (1976) White Noise (2022) #ThomasFlight #VideoEssay #Metamodernism