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[starburst8213]

Hello film fans

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[cirquoise]

YES, Mirrormask is perfect. Use that.

I also thought of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the short films in the collection Dreams by Akira Kurosawa--it's about an art student that enters one of Van Gogh's paintings and meets the artist.

[erf_]

Donnie Darko! The Ninth Gate, too, for completely different reasons.

The Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs (The Departed was an American adaptation of this movie) explores tangentially related themes of the ephemerality of societal roles and identity, but there's not much about mirrors or surfaces.

[virtualstar]

Godard's Vivre sa Vie. Schrader's Mishima? Victor Erice's El Espiritu de Colmina. Antonioni's Blow-Up? Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo?

[freesiayourmind]

I'll think harder later, but The Purple Rose of Cairo comes to mind - it's a Woody ALlen movie where people go in and out of...a movie.

[freesiayourmind]

Heh, oops, someone got that already.

The Truman Show?
The Shape of Things?

Also, take a look at some of these.

[gazzafizza06]

Last Year at Marienbad fits the prompt, but it's one of the most painfully vague movies I've ever had to watch.
Also, my new obsession is The Fall. It's pretty recent, but it's the most beautiful thing I've seen, and it does deal with identity through storytelling and through old-timey Hollywood movies.

[cirquoise]

The Fall is so good it will make your eyes bleed.