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Lessons from the production and portrayals of race, gender, and politics in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film about revolutionaries and supremacists, parents and children.
Storytelling lessons from a political drama for our moment.
Outstanding horror film. Astounding reception.
The inspirations and approach powering the show’s look and feel.
Lessons from the director’s approach to his work and his environment.
Film-making lessons from the second instalment of the sci-fi epic.
Lessons from Scorsese’s thesis statement.
More innovative as a technical milestone, and as a model for independent film-makers, than as a science-fiction story.
How to convey unspeakable horror with sound and a mirror.
Breakdowns of ways this sound design technique is used in major feature films.
A not-so-esoteric-as-it-seems-at-first, beautifully made and performed, story of growing apart.
A writer-director’s “fever dream… that he doesn’t know he’s constructed”: beautifully and expansively shot, but perhaps not as vividly realised at it is felt.
A round-up of breakdowns of Wes Anderson’s rich, intricate film.
Breakdowns of form and function in Denis Villeneuve’s epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic.
A study of the ways the director uses his most powerful storytelling tool.
The storytelling power of sound design, explained.
Entertaining and lavish – though you may have to skip through some bits to maintain engagement.
Some ways films “borrow” from other films – and how they don’t simply replicate other art, but add to the conversation.
No idea what I’m watching, and having a blast. Plus this score slaps.
Themes, imagery, and obsessions in the director’s filmography.
A look at how blueprints can work for a film – and for us as filmmakers.
A collection of breakdowns of the craft of Bong Joon Ho’s celebrated film.
A roundup of videos on the process and significance of Chloé Zhao’s lauded film.
“Why did this film win an Academy Award for Best Editing?”
Masterful filmic storytelling.
Unsettling depiction of the alien within us, and the horror between us.
There a lot to unpack in Boots Riley’s surreal, wildly entertaining, incisively timely, sobering trip.
Roger Deakins: holy shit. Gender and race: hmmm.
The influential editor and sound designer discusses his Six Criteria of Film Editing.