Filmmaker Videos
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Watch: “The Beauty of Cinema 2016”
Another day, another 2016-in-cinema supercut, this time credited to YouTube user Beeblebrox.
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Watch: “The Best Cinematography of 2016”
The supercut of 2016’s best cinematography edited by Scout Tafoya gets points for originality in including FX’s Atlanta.
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Watch: “Andrei Tarkovsky, Cinema of the Soul”
Martin Kessler’s supercut connects the visual dots across Andrei Tarkovsky’s filmography for eight minutes.
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Watch: Twin Peaks Trailer, aka David Lynch Eats a Donut
The latest trailer-but-not-really for the much-anticipated return of Twin Peaks has David Lynch “in character” as FBI agent Gordon Cole eating a donut.
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“Don’t Tell Me What I Already Know”: How Steven Soderbergh Reinvents the Art of Information-Giving
“Do we understand…” How many times have the filmmakers in our audience read those words within the body of studio notes? Do we understand his or her motivation? Do we understand the stakes? Do we understand the backstory? Because moments of information-dispensing rarely provide cinema’s most thrilling, mysterious, poetic moments, they are often realized by filmmakers in the most prosaic of ways. Dialogue in a scene covered with a pretty basic sequence of shots. Let’s just get through this, you can feel the directors — and screenwriters — saying. But, as this video essay by Writing with the Camera shows, […]
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Watch: “Kazan, Scorsese and The Departed“
With Silence out soon, it’s Martin Scorsese season. This video essay by Cole Smith looks at Elia Kazan’s approach to staging interior and urban spaces in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, then moves on to consider his influence on Scorsese’s The Departed. New Yorkers: the film shows on 35mm this Saturday at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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Watch: “Hitchcock & De Palma Split Screen Bloodbath”
Brian De Palma has been accused by detractors of being nothing more than a shameless Hitchcock imitator. Peet Gelderblom’s video essay puts that to the test, using De Palma’s beloved split screen to compare and contrast shots from both director’s films. Hitchcock is on the left, De Palma on the right.
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Watch: “Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude”
This video from Blank on Blank animates excerpts from a fairly heavy interview with Francis Ford Coppola that touches on death, loneliness and solitude. It was conducted in 1996 while Coppola was promoting, of all things, Jack. He also discusses changing reception of his films over time, with an emphasis on Apocalypse Now.
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Watch: “The 25 Best Films of 2016: A Video Countdown”
David Ehrlich’s justly popular annual supercut of his personal choices for the 25 best films of the year is here. From Weiner at #25 to Moonlight at #1, it’s a solid list, but the meat, as always, is in the editing, which finds many points of association between these disparate films.
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Watch: Isabelle Huppert’s IFP Gotham Awards Acceptance Speech
Isabelle Huppert is unquestionably one of the world’s great actresses. She is also, to put it mildly, not known for the warmth or jollity of her roles — she’s played many tough, complicated women utterly unconcerned with being “likable,” and her complex part in Paul Verhoeven’s Elle is no exception. It’s delightful, and completely out of literal character, to see her smiling and laughing in genuine surprise as she accepted the best actress award at last night’s Gothams for the film. “I didn’t expect that to happen, I promise,” she explains. “They all told me, “It’s a very American award, very New […]
