The Queue is an oft-recurring column in which Meg Shields provides you with a distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web.
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Here’s a video essay on why ‘La Dolce Vita’ represents a stylistic shift in the career of Federico Fellini.
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Here’s a video essay on why the Winkie’s Diner scene is the key to understanding ‘Mulholland Drive.’
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Here’s a video that teases out the cinematic resonances between ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ and the work of Jane Campion, Stanley Kubrick, and others.
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Here’s a video essay about why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ still has us dreaming big, ten years later.
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Here’s writer Alan Moore with a definition of “Modernist Horror” and a compelling case for why genre film can be a call to action.
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Here’s a video essay on why the best action sequences are structured like stories rather than spectacles.
By Meg Shields
There’s a team of video essayists dissecting their favorite scenes from the X-Men films. Here’s one of our favorites: a video on why the attack on Division X scene from ‘X-Men: First Class’ exemplifies the “warm house” archetype.
By Meg Shields
What we’re watching: a video essay explaining why Lars von Trier’s film is one of the funniest of 2018.