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The Rashomon Effect Explained

Requiem for a Dream

Why Roma (2018) Resonates With Us

This film isn't about Cleo. It's about us. 

The True Color Of 'Moonlight' (2016)

Better Call Saul // Point of View

POV shots from season 1 to 5 in Better Call Saul.

How Kubrick, Spielberg, and Inarritu Stage their Scenes

Today’s video is a scene analysis and video essay on staging and blocking your scenes like Spielberg’s Minority Report, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and Inarritu’s Birdman.

Barry Jenkins: The Intimate Close-Ups

Barry Jenkins may be the modern master of the close-up shot. Jenkins's close-ups are reminiscent of those crafted by the late, great Jonathan Demme—shallow focus with the character looking directly into the camera’s lens. Take it from close-up aficionado, Paul Thomas Anderson. Anderson once told Jenkins, “I’m very jealous of your close-ups. There’s a long line of people who have really tried to do Jonathan Demme close-ups and I try all the time, but I have to say, you got it right better than anybody.” In Jenkins’s last two features, MOONLIGHT and IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, the close-ups seem to transcend the narrative of the films. Time seems to stand still as we gaze into the eyes of the characters. They are intimate and profound, and they are simply pure cinema.

Films used: Moonlight If Beale Street Could Talk

Music: “New Life” by Nicholas Britell

Driving & Dying: Point-Of-View Shots In Mad Max

Edited by Rishi Kaneria (@rishikaneria) Music by Girl Talk

Red & Yellow // A Wes Anderson Supercut

How One Movie Achieved Visual Perfection | Film Perfection

Hannibal. Without people.

a made compilation of scenes from the entire first season of Hannibal and removed everything that had people in it. I present you… Hannibal. Without people

Why Props Matter

A look at the hidden power of film props. And how filmmakers use the everyday (and not so everyday) objects in their scenes to enhance cinematic storytelling.