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With Robert Bresson, less is always more. The French director Robert Bresson was known for his sparse filmmaking, with a minimalist style emphasizing the audience’s…

King Kong had nothing on him. Because he made it. You may know the name Ray Harryhausen as someone who was a stop-motion pioneer, but…

This short will put cinematography fans in helicopter heaven. Silent short films need to lean heavily on their cinematography because when all you have is…

Floridian doc chronicles its post-trap present. This documentary about the underground rap scene in South Florida uses its youth as both fuel and engine. Neon…

“Lynchian” doesn’t really begin to describe it. A stark, darkly funny animation whose styles evoke those of Japan and Eastern Europe, Rabbit’s Blood creates an…

Smoking kills but Billy Wilder made it look killer. Billy Wilder was one of the sharpest film writers of all time. His directing, to say…

David Lynch’s constructions are coherent in their craziness.

Unnatural approximations of real life are standard filmmaking.

The director analyzes his work in this video essay. George Lucas comes from (and/or helped create) the New Hollywood era of ambitious film students that…