Between 2014 and 2016, a YouTube channel called Every Frame a Painting posted 28 video essays critiquing movies and dissecting different aspects of filmmaking before it went silent. Taylor Ramos and ...
Perhaps video essays are like pornography in that, as the saying goes, you know it when you see it. But what distinguishes a video essay from a short film and what are the ground rules for this ...
"Matinee is almost like a thesis on the way that we turn to movies to process on our fears, and about the value of even the junkiest of schlock." Have you seen this movie? If you haven't yet, and ...
"Understood?" There's a new video essay series + short film premiering soon that you might want to take a look at - unveiling soon up in Canada. The Second is the short film that is part of a new ...
In 1999, the great film critic Roger Ebert took on a project. In addition to the two or three or four weekly movie reviews he wrote about films opening in theaters in a given week, he decided he'd go ...
It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...
Writing for The Hollywood Reporter from the Prague set of ' The Zookeeper's Wife' (Focus Features), the Oscar-nominated actress reveals the good things that can happen with a woman director (Niki Caro ...