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The Video Essay Canon

Close readings that changed how a generation watches films

106 lessons · 31h 41m

In this collection

Joel & Ethan Coen - Shot | Reverse Shot — Every Frame a Painting · 5m · Intermediate
How Does an Editor Think and Feel? — Every Frame a Painting · 6m · Intermediate
The Invisible Horror of The Shining — kaptainkristian · 18m · Advanced
The Marvel Symphonic Universe — Every Frame a Painting · 8m · Intermediate
How Studio Ghibli Makes Animation Feel Alive — kaptainkristian · 20m · Intermediate
Guillermo del Toro - Monsters and Magic — kaptainkristian · 19m · Intermediate
Lee Unkrich on the Two Versions of THE SHINING | THE COMPLETE KUBRICK — CRITERION · 11m · Advanced
The Sustained Two-Shot — Every Frame a Painting · 5m · Intermediate
When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions — Lessons from the Screenplay · 9m · Intermediate
In the Mood For Love: Crash Course Film Criticism #5 — CrashCourse · 11m · Intermediate
What Would Billy Wilder Do? — Every Frame a Painting · 6m · Beginner
Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That? — Thomas Flight · 15m · Beginner
Citizen Kane: Crash Course Film Criticism #1 — CrashCourse · 11m · Beginner
Marking a Story Beat with A Pan in Parasite — Seeing Through Our Screens - Thomas Flight · 9m · Intermediate
Movie Genres Explained — Types of Films & the Art of Subverting Film Genres — StudioBinder · 17m · Beginner
Pan's Labyrinth: Crash Course Film Criticism #9 — CrashCourse · 11m · Intermediate
Two Ways To Film The Same Scene (#2) — Nerdwriter1 · 7m · Beginner
3 Brilliant Moments of Blocking (in Kurosawa's High and Low) — CineFix · 9m · Intermediate
Every Christopher Nolan Movie Ends the Same — Like Stories of Old · 19m · Intermediate
The Prestige: Hiding In Plain Sight — Nerdwriter1 · 8m · Advanced
What is Film Noir – Private Detectives, Corrupt Cops, and Femme Fatales — StudioBinder · 14m · Intermediate
When Tarantino Learned To Shut Up — kaptainkristian · 16m · Intermediate
How Soderbergh Elevates A (Minor) Scene — Nerdwriter1 · 7m · Intermediate
In Search of the Distinctively Human | The Philosophy of Blade Runner 2049 — Like Stories of Old · 18m · Advanced
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Nietzsche — FRAME INTO FOCUS · 69m · Advanced
RAN and the Spectrum of Adaptation (Tarr, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa) — The Cinema Revivalist · 44m · Advanced
What Portrait of a Lady on Fire Tells Us About "the Gaze" — Broey Deschanel · 14m · Advanced
Why So Many People Didn't 'Get' Oppenheimer — Like Stories of Old · 40m · Advanced
Why The Shining is Terrifying — Super Eyepatch Wolf · 25m · Intermediate
Blade Runner 2049 - Empathy Propaganda [Video Essay] — Movies I Love (and so can you) · 54m · Advanced

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