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BoJack Horseman Continues Bonding Us By Breaking Us Down
Season 4 doesn’t let up, but it breaks us all together. “Never have I been so excited to constantly surround myself with sadness.” Editor Nick…
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Short of the Week: ‘Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen’ Finds Herzogian Wonder
A frozen adventure of life and death. Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen is a brief documentary from David Freid and MEL Films. Exploring the northernmost city…
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Behind the Frames: The Glasses of ‘8½’
Fellini’s iconic film featured some iconic looks.
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The Pitfalls of Result Direction
Why it’s bad to ask your actors for an outcome. Directing is a nuanced profession. You wear a lot of hats (sometimes literally if you’re…
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The Close-Up Cinematography of ‘The Game’
For the 20th anniversary of ‘The Game,’ in 2017, we looked at a video celebrating the film’s cinematography. Its details were as powerful as ever.
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Silence and Analysis: The Non-Verbal Struggle of ‘Louie’
Frustration and failure often dwell in the silences of Louie. Stand-up comedy has a tangential (and sometimes symbiotic) relationship with film and TV, seen in things…
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The Obsessions of Darren Aronofsky
The director’s filmography is filled with people that just can’t let something go. Darren Aronofsky is a filmmaker so accomplished that even his lesser-reviewed works…
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Deep Beethoven: Film’s Love of Allegretto
Film theory and music theory combine in an interesting and in-depth look at Beethoven and movies. If pop soundtracks are time capsules, classical scores are…
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How ‘Carol’ Finds Power in Glances
Watch a wonderful video essay about how Todd Haynes uses the power of glances in Carol.