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Typical comment from someone who is not creative. Now, Hollywood is not the king of creativity, so looking for examples of lack of creativity in Hollywood cinema is cheating XD Postada: vocal fry is very annoying.

I could give a flying FK about the "directors intent". plus most are cropped to shit because of muh "cinematic feel". CinemaCrapScope SUCKS.

You're my new favorite cinema video essayist. This essay is SO GREAT. Your analysis, choice of references and depth of field reflects a tremendous intellect. Excited to find this channel.

Well, obviously. Nothing is imagined in a vacuum. Literally _only_ nothing can be imagined or constructed in a vacuum. Humans initially got their mental images from the environment and other humans. Then those images and concepts got used and slightly modified to fit a different location or framing than what they were used for before. And that process just continues to the present. They're applied at a different time. They're combined with other derivative concepts and images that create a unique _combination_ of things. All sets of things are built from already existing particulars and subsets.

Ah yes... the famous Wesley Craven horror "The Holes Have Eyes". Was this video made by an AI? It sure wasn't made by people "who love movies and everything that goes into making them". FFS... the god damn poster you're talking about is IN THE FRAME, From The Frame. YOU CAN READ THE TITLE! IT IS THERE!!!

G0Fa$tBoatsMojito will now be my new fav password

One of the best documentary film on this director I have ever seen

Great essay!

Such an inspiring and insightful piece, thank you for putting in the time to create it.

Excellent video essay.

This is a really well made video, but it feels like it's missing some subtext. Let's ignore semantic words like "stealing" and "borrowing" and simply ask, when does an homage cross a line? When does having an original idea warrant artistic credibility and when does copying a scene warrant criticism? Those are more difficult questions and I think it would be interesting to see an exploration of the answers.

Ridley Scott’s film “Legend” pays homage to Cocteau’s “Beauty and the Beast”

Lovely. Thank you.

great video I loved it

4:00 Greta Gerwig: ‘you can give ‘faster’ / ‘slower’ but that’s usually not useful’… David Fincher through the entire filming of “The Social Network”:

Booooooooo

I love that you're giving VFX and CGI their due. That time period in the late 80s, early 90s really ushered in a new era of filmmaking.

19:26 Charlotte Wells can be casted for Isabella Rossellini

The world rises your son now.. the internet raises your son

This is a truly good video. I watch TH-cam all the time but it’s rare to find a video with as much substance and this one. Thank you.

It is a reality that many movies disappear from common knowledge over time. Humanity is about carrying on the torch. How will future generations know about Dancing with the Wolves and the principles it carries without watching Avatar? Isn't that the purpose of storytellers?

great video essay, thank you!!

Im an actor trying to make my 1st film in NYC and wondering if anyone is interested in helping 😎

I know if I ever become a famous actor I'm going to make stuff up whenever asked about my process. Like say I found a shady doctor in a third world country to stop my heart and revive me to prepare for a role that I die in. Or give my kid up for adoption only to adopt them after the directors cut got released if my character loat their kid. I'll encourage the cast and crew to verify these claims and give them the freedom to make up stuff on their own if asked which I'll confirm are true.

This video essay should have 10 million views

what is that music at about three minutes fifty five...?

Who is jeremy strong?

Thanks

The fact I'll never see Dune how its meant to be seen ever again because home release only has the widescreen is 100% bullshit

If anybody has read the script of "The Little Women" written by Greta Gerwig, you'd find this movie is so badly directed. None of the actors have pulled their weight. There are such clear moments in the script that make a scene magical and the actors have paid no heed to it and just rushed through them. For eg the last train scene where Fredriech says "i have nothing to give to you, my hands are empty", Jo's character holds his hand and says "no they are not"-now look at what Saoirse Ronan has done in the scene. The only thing that the script maybe did not have was an inherent rhythm. The only element of structure that pops out is the back and forth in time. Was that what led to this rushing? I wish somebody who has read what Greta wrote would interview here about how she directed it.

Brilliant video!!!

This videos needs to be an hour long

You didn’t show Repo Man while Paul Thomas Anderson was talking about Robby Müller. It’s been years since I’ve heard that interview, but I think they get on the subject of Müller there because they’re talking about Repo Man.

Lars von Trier's films are super liberating. I had much more convictions about strict filmmaking processes in order to create a top tier piece, but quite literally everything changed since I've started watching his works. And by the way, willing to understand his decisions I also changed my way of preparing for someone's films. Similar to David Lynch he leaves so many hints about his vibes and worryings and overall moods of his works in his interviews and stories. My most rewatchable director.

What I’ve seen from film in the last few decades seems to shun the beautiful in the same way it shuns transcendence.

Breaking the waves! My girlfriend and I went to see that in a quite small cinema, and had to sit in perhaps the third row from the screen. We both had to leave after 30 minutes because of nausea. A unique cinematic experience for us.

Muller is not discussed enough these days. And… why did it take me this long to realize that I had seen Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard together before Chernobyl.

I personally found the cinematography of this movie a bit punishing, even if it elevated the work as a whole.

I know everybody is locked in their own way of seeing things, and this is mine and I even put characters talk about it in a book I've writen: it's all great until we have bells tolling in the clouds, in the end. This ends the mystery, this ends the miracles, this ends transcendence. Because in the universe of the movie, god exists. We, as viewers, are left with no chance to choose for ourselves. The way the movie looks is more or less irrelevent to me, because of this. It's a sort of cheating device the way the movie ends.

Decades later, still too emotionally raw to rewatch this film. Interesting to lear the process that created this, as I saw this long before TH-cam video essays or knowing jack about film theory. I just wanted to see the new film with Emily Watson in it.

Do you have a link to the interview with Christopher Doyle at 2:14?

Fantastic critique as always, and the journey you take us on is mesmerising. Cutting to preserve the emotional integrity of the scene is something I’ve heard several times, but this is the best example I’ve seen of it explained.

Kermode „hayted“ the film? Oh wow that’s a pretty hot take… how can you be interested in original inspired films and hate BTW??

Katrin Cartlidge is such an underrated actor, I wish to have seen her in many more films

8:48 - oh right I forgot that she looked at the camera in some shots..! like she’s asking „did this terrible thing happen because of me?“

intentionally making an image look "bad" is a valid creative decision, but the people doing it, definitely have to be competent at making stuff be conventionally and technically good in order to properly make things "bad" and know the right moment when to break the rules. Not having any technical knowledge, not knowing the "rules, or the cinematic language and then attempting to deliberately "break the rules" just begins the process of creating a finished work, that's something like "The Room" (2003).

I looove Robby Muller, his trademark ability of making beautiful yet un-beautiful images is unmatched, in my opinion, except maybe by Kubrick.

What you think of the direction in Oppenheimer?

Incredibly thorough, well paced, insightful historical context and interviews, and just gorgeous examples from a pretty incredible variety of films. I don’t know if you particularly hit your thesis perfectly because I thought some of the shots were actually quite beautiful in their humbleness 😅 But I really enjoyed the journey you took me on with the analysis and story presented.

You guys have such a good grasp on analyzing media critically. I too have been exhausted by people online unable to talk about films within the larger context instead of cherry picking the classics that has stood the test of time and comparing them to weaker mainstream modern films while they ignore amazing modern films and ignore terrible old films from the same era. And I don't know if Breaking the Waves inspired Mark Mylod or Kieran but Succession does the same with their camera, lighting and performances. Especially in Connor's Wedding episode where they hid reels in set so they can have at least one camera running without interruption so they can capture the raw performances from everyone and then they cut it all together in the edit to pace it better even though they had 10 mins of long take for that crucial scene. Love the video!