The Queue

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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Albatross Soup

Visualizing a Riddle: The Trippy Inquiry of “Albatross Soup”

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What we’re watching: a visually trippy short film that animates an inquiry into a morbid riddle.

Goodfellas

A Filmography Soaked in Scarlet: An Ode to the “Scorsese Red”

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A supercut that highlights how the filmmaker’s corpus is a crime scene of crimson.

D

The Many Deaths of 3D: A History of Cinema’s Problem Child

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3D is dead long live 3D.

Raymonde Or The Vertical Escape

The Sinful Stop-Motion Pleasures of ‘Raymonde or the Vertical Escape’ 

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If you’ve been waiting for a meditation on sin and sexuality from a french, anthropomorphic stop motion owl…good news.

Corruption

The Grindhouse Trailer That Inspired Edgar Wright’s ‘Don’t’

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The elegant art of grindhouse trailer narration needs to come back. Who’s with us?

Pink Slip

The Art of the Twist: How to Do Causation-Based Comedy

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What we’re watching: an expectation-subverting comedy short that’s a fantastic lesson in how to advance a scene.

How Stanley Kubrick Pivoted To Low Budget Filmmaking After ‘2001’

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Never underestimate Stanley Kubrick.

Marcy Learns Something New

The Unexpected Tenderness of ‘Marcy Learns Something New’

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Get schooled with this short film about a widow who attends a dominatrix workshop.

Wes Anderson Prada Short

The Cinematic Grammar of Wes Anderson’s ‘Castello Cavalcanti’

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Sometimes, actions speak louder than words. And of course by actions we mean camera pans.