• The Three Stages of Amy Adams — 11.8

  • The Voices of Benedict Cumberbatch — 10.31

  • The Decade's Best Films Based on Novels — 10.20

  • 2016 The Year of Kristin Stewart — 10.11

  • Why Is Emily Blunt Better in Support — 10.4

  • The Wahlberg Touch — 9.26

  • Hallelujah Is Ruined — 9.21

  • Sophia Loren Italian Style — 9.20

  • Oliver Stone on How to Make History — 9.15

  • Who Directed These Famous Music Videos — 9.13

  • The 10 Best Films from TIFF This Decade — 9.6

  • Emoji-ing the Century's Best Films — 8.29

  • The World of Alex Ross Perry — 8.23

  • The 10 Best Fake Movie Sports — 8.8

  • How Margot Robbie Went from Sex Symbol to Superstar — 8.2

  • Which Famous Directors Made These Commercials — 7.28

  • How Jason Bourne Changed Film Fights — 7.27

  • The Original Ghostbusters Is Pretty Sexist — 7.13

  • Kiarostami – Anti Supercut Artist — 7.8

  • The Virgin Monologues of Sarah Jacobson — 6.17

  • Under a Spell of Acting — 6.10

  • Switching Sexes Past and Future — 6.3

  • Turning Apes Into Humans — 5.27

  • What Are the Best Films from Cannes This Decade — 5.13

  • Inside the Rooms of No Home Movie — 4.1

  • In Search of a Sex Symbol — 3.18

  • The Best of Berlinale — 2.22

  • #OscarsSoWhite: The Best Performances of Color — 2.12

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Picture? — 2.8

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Director? — 2.5

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Cinematography? — 2.3

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress? — 1.28

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor? — 1.26

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Actress? — 1.20

  • Who Deserves the Oscar for Best Actor? — 1.19

  • Right Now, Then Wrong — 1.25

2016

Video Essays List

  • The Tarantino Death Toll — 12.16

  • Why The Pearl Button Is One of the Year’s Best Films — 12.13

  • What Is Lynchian? — 12.10

  • Kartemquin Films and the Art of Documentary — 11.10

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cinema of Penance — 10.30

  • Beyond Audience: Alverson and Solver — 10.22

  • 33 Jane Bs by Agnès V. — 10.10

  • Double Dragon Tattoos — 10.9

  • 30 Rock Bands in 30 Years — 10.2

  • The Exiles, David Lynch Style — 9.29

  • Cassavetes' Spaces of Seduction — 9.26

  • One Museum, Two Movies — 9.23

  • When Porn Goes Deep: Love Rites — 9.14

  • Highest Wavelengths at TIFF — 9.8

  • Double Insomnia — 8.28

  • Tragic Timings of Denis Villeneuve — 8.9

  • Multiple Must-Sees at Melbourne International Film Festival — 8.6

  • 83 Ways to Film a Road Movie — 7.24

  • Filmmaking While Falling in Love — 7.17

  • How to Film Work: The Unstable Object — 7.10

  • Hoop Dreams — 7.2

  • Looking at Jazz with Ornette Coleman — 6.30

  • Into the Void: Films by Rick Alverson — 6.12

  • How to Film a Real Relationship — 6.5

  • How to Direct a Dinner Scene — 5.29

  • Jodorowsky's Unholy Bodies — 5.20

  • From China to Sundance — 5.20

  • Xavier Dolan: Love Bursts — 5.19

  • Rohmer's Guessing Gazes — 5.14

  • How Video Essays Work — 5.11

  • Why Video Essays Matter — 5.10

  • The Art of Piracy — 5.9

  • What the Best Video Essays Do — 5.8

  • Orson Welles at 100 — 5.4

  • Breaking Through Movies: Mark Rappaport — 4.25

  • Understanding China in Three People — 4.18

  • Tarkovsky's Candles — 4.8

  • Oliveira's Angelic Cinema — 4.8

  • Comic-Con for Film Studies: SCMS — 4.4

  • Learning Farocki: A Live Desktop Response — 3.28

  • Seven Favorites from True/False — 3.17

  • Breaking Down the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night — 2.28

  • Who Should Win Best Cinematography? — 2.12

  • Who Should Win Best Picture? — 2.5

  • Who Should Win Best Director? — 2.4

  • Who Should Win Best Actress? — 1.29

  • Who Should Win Best Actor? — 1.28

  • Who Should Win Best Supporting Actress? — 1.23

  • Who Should Win Best Supporting Actor? — 1.21

  • Best Films of the Decade So Far — 1.8

2015

2014

  • What Makes a Video Essay Great? — 28.12

  • L'il Quinquin Music Video: "Cause I Knew" — 17.12

  • Better than Boyhood? 10 Best Films of 2014 — 12.12

  • A Spell to Ward off the Darkness: Three Utopias — 4.12

  • When Animals Look at Us: Denis Cote's Bestiaire — 25.11

  • The Best First Feature Films of 2014 — 24.11

  •   Brilliant Moments from Films of Josephine Decker — 17.11

  • Lynne Sachs' Yes Films and No Films — 4.11

  •     How the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented the Horror Movie — 27.10

  •      10 Best Ways to Make a Movie About the Economy — 20.10

  •     A Documentary Monument: KARAMAY — 19.10

  •      Best Films from the 50th Chicago International Film Festival — 10.10

  •      Wavelengths to Projections — 1.10

  •     The Greatest Documentaries of All Time — 30.9

  •     Rejecting Neorealism: Fellini and Antonioni — 24.9

  •   Manakamana Mergings — 10.9

  •    Three Movies in One: WHO IS DAYANI CRISTAL? — 8.9

  •    Out 1 Solitaire — 4.9

  •    The Shanghai Film Museum — 24.8

  • Orson Welles before CITIZEN KANE: TOO MUCH JOHNSON — 19.8

  • What *Was* Documentary? — 16.8

  •    The Best Film of the Year So Far: THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT — 31.7

  • Bechdel-sploitation: Erotic Films that Pass the Test — 19.7

  •    The Many Voices of Roger Ebert and LIFE ITSELF — 17.7

  •   Strike Anywhere: Short Films by Barry Jenkins — 10.7

  • Beyond Bechdel: Testing Feminism in Film — 8.7

  • Zero Gravity — 29.6

  • Top Five Americas in Hal Hartley's My America — 27

  • ·How to Have a Radical Holiday Party — 23.12

  •   Lessons Learned from 2013's Films — 19.12

  •   Questions of Visual Critical Studies — 17.12

  •   Best Movies of 2013 — 13.12

  •   Is This Cinerama? — 6.12

  •   Five Ways to Read Leviatan — 22.11

  • Meet Marlon Brando — 12.11

  • Glitch Games in Computer Chess — 4.11

  •   39 Ways of Looking at Beauty — 30.10

  •   Mario Bava's Optic Orgy — 21.10

  • Young Judi Dench at Four in the Morning — 15.10

  • Best of the 2013 Chicago International Film Festival — 14.10

  • 3 Businessmen — 3.10

  • Tracing a Movie in Google Maps — 25.9

  • The Soundless Fury of Kate Lyn Sheil — 18.9

  • Steadicam Money Shots in Rivers and Tides — 10.9

  • Real Film Radicals — 20.8

  • Terrence Malick, Voiceover Artist — 14.8

  • Every Fight in Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmaster — 13.8

  • Raul Ruiz' Night Across the Street — 30.7

  • Elements of the Essay Film — 24.7

  • Bruce Lee Before and After the Dragon — 18.7

  • The Essay Film: Some Thoughts of Discontent — 14.7

  • The Flaherty Recitations — 13.7

  •   The Art of the Dissolve — 12.7

  •   Keith Uhlich's Cinema Breakdown — 9.7

  • Experimental Fireworks — 27.6

  • Jem Cohen's Ground Level Artistry — 26.6

  • Patrick Wang's In the Family — 25.6

  • Lives on the Line: Laura Poitras — 19.6

  • The Kumare Meditation at Ebertfest — 21.5

  • Four Ways to Look at Chinese Realty — 15.5

  • Chinese Realities, Documentary Visions — 6.5

  • Funner than Fiction — 27.3

  • The Gospel Faces of Pier Paolo Pasolini — 20.3

  • How Carl Dreyer Created a Cinematic Uncanny — 18.3

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present — 27.2

  • What Does Oscar Winning Cinematography Look Like? — 18.2

  • What Does China's Greatest Film Sound Like? — 14.2

  • Best of Berlinale 2013 — 13.2

  • ·Why Silver Linings Playbook Should Win the Oscar for Best Picture — 5.2

  • Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Actress? — 29.1

  • Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Actor? — 24.1

  • Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress? — 22.1

  • Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor? — 22.1

  • The CGI Animal Kingdom of Rhythm and Hues — 21.1

  • The Best Films of 1922 — 10.1

  • Linklater's Slacker — 3.1.

2013

  • The Spielberg Face — 13.12

  • Fall: A Video Poem for Buster Keaton — 1.12

  • Cowards Bend the Knee Video Essay — 18.9

  • Poetry with Manohla Dargis — 23.8

  • Roger Ebert on 35 Shots of Rum — 7.8

  • Night Shift: Claire Denis on 35 Shots of Rum — 3.8

  • Ebert Presents: Movies in China — 10.7

  • Diary on David Holzman Part 2: Getting to the Real Stuff — 13.6

  • Diary on David Holzman Part 1: The Sons and Daughters of David — 13.6

  • Ebert Presents: Korean Movies — 15.5

  • New Beginnings: Opening Moments in Six Contemporary Chinese Films — 22.4

  • Oxhide II with David Bordwell — 20.4

  • The Good "Bad" Acting of Juliette Binoche — 7.3

  • Do-It-Yourself Auteurs: A Cinematic Blizzard — 20.2

  • Micky vs Marky: The Same Fight Twice — 15.1

2012

2011

  • Foreign Films Gangnam Style — 27.12

  • 12 for 2012 — 20.12

  • Essential Online Videos of 2012 — 20.12

  • 50 Essential Chinese Films — 1.12

  • First Films and the Power of Padding — 23.11

  • The Career of Paul Thomas Anderson in Five Shots — 19.11

  • An Evening with Lawrence Jordan — 15.11

  • Making Football Movies Outside the NFL — 15.11

  • Viewing Between the Lines: Hong Sang-soo's THE DAY HE ARRIVES — 6.11

  • Growing Up a Bond Girl — 29.10

  • Abraham Lincoln in Movies and TV — 28.10

  • Revenge of the Great Zombie Movies — 27.10

  • Miike Mutations — 20.10

  • Party Crashing Politics with Philip Seymour Hoffman — 17.10

  • The Portuguese Process — 8.10

  • 100 Masters of Animated Short Films — 4.10

  • Anatomy of a Sex Scene — 25.9

  • Reel Islam — 19.9

  • Mapping the Long Take: Bela Tarr and Miklos Jancso — 14.9

  • Three Closings and Four Highlights: The Beijing Independent Film Festival — 30.8

  • Chinese Independents (BIFF) — 29.8

  • Weeknd at the House of Bava — 21.8

  • Keaton Sarris — 14.8

  • Doris Wishman — 7.8

  • Sight and Sound Film Poll: Two of the Greatest — 1.8

  • Beaver's Lodge: The Razor's Edge — 1.8

  • Beaver's Lodge: The Professionals — 25.7

  • Matt Porterfield and the Art of the Question — 26.6

  • Reality vs. Fiction in Animal Movies — 20.6

  • Nicole Brenez on The Hour of the Furnaces — 19.6

  • A Death Foretold: Foreshadowing in Mad Men — 15.6

  • Adrian Martin on L'Enfant Secret — 13.6

  • Interface 2.0 — 10.6

  • Gay Secrets of the Classic Hollywood Closet — 7.6

  • Three Songs for Todd Solondz — 5.6

  • Ekkehard Knorer and Michael Baute on Under the Bridges — 29.5

  • Vadim Rizov on Anthem — 27.5

  • Hacking Haneke — 27.5

  • Molly Haskell on Claire's Knee — 24.5

  • War Movies for People Who Don't Like War Movies — 23.5

  • Sight and Sound Film Poll: An International Tribute to Roger Ebert and His Favorite Films — 22.5

  • Law and Disorder in THE OTHER HALF — 12.5

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum on Satantango — 10.5

  • Deceptive Surfaces: Films of Christian Petzold — 7.5

  • In Praise of Maya Deren — 30.4

  • Utopia Online — 25.4

  • On the Next Mad Men — 23.4

  • Alloy Orchestra's Wild and Weird Process — 17.4

  • Ceylan's Faces — 12.4

  • The Hardcore History Lessons of Koji Wakamatsu — 10.4

  • Hal Hartley's Must See Moments — 27.3

  • Mad Men: The Sad Clown Dress — 22.3

  • Mad Men: Carousel — 22.3

  • Mad Men: Lawnmower — 22.3

  • Mad Men: The Fight — 22.3

  • Top Five Mad Men Moments — 22.3

  • Lech Majewski's Stillness in Motion — 20.3

  • Anatomy of a Griffith Scene — 14.3

  • A Smile for Griffith — 13.3

  • Looking vs. Touching — 7.3

  • An Open Source Epic: Sita Sings the Blues — 25.2

  • Beyond Hugo: The First Movie Magicians — 22.2

  • Everyone Else — 11.2

  • Should Win: Press Play's 2012 Oscar for Best Director — 10.2

  • Paradise Lost: Ursula Meier's Home — 9.2

  • Should Win: Press Play's 2012 Oscar for Best Actress — 9.2

  • Should Win: Press Play's 2012 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress — 8.2

  • Should Win: Press Play's 2012 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor — 7.2

  • Rotterdam Film Festival Highlights — 3.2

  • Jackass Number Two Vertigoed — 25.1

  • The Existential Noir of Michelangelo Antonioni — 24.1

  • What's Opera Doc? Vertigoed — 18.1

  • Five Sundance Classics — 17.1

  • Rocky Vertigoed — 10.1

  • Star Wars Vertigoed — 10.1

  • Rocky IV Vertigoed — 10.1

  • The Phantom Menace Vertigoed — 10.1

  • Film Socialisme in Navajo Chinese — 9.1

  • The Inception of Movie Editing — 16.12

  • The Big Lebowski — 1.1

2010

  • Straub/Huillet's Not Reconciled - video essay with Richard Brody of the New Yorker — 21.11

  • Nicole Brenez on By the Bluest of Seas — 19.11

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum on The Sun Shines Bright and Gertrud — 14.11

  • Follow the Leader: Alexander — 17.10

  • Follow the Leader: Nixon — 16.10

  • Follow the Leader: JFK — 15.10

  • Follow the Leader: Born on the Fourth of July — 14.10

  • Days and Nights in the Forest - introduction — 8.10

  • Days and Nights in the Forest - Memory Game with insights — 21.9

  • El Cid - Shooting Down Pictures video essay w/ Mike D'Angelo — 2.9

  • Un Coeur en Hiver / A Heart in Winter - with Mike D'Angelo — 28.8

  • Grey Gardens video essay — 20.8

  • The Draughtsman's Contract - video essay w/ Karina Longworth — 2.8

  • The Wire and the Art of the Credit Sequence: Season 5 — 30.7

  • The Wire and the Art of the Credit Sequence: Season 4 — 29.7

  • The Wire and the Art of the Credit Sequence: Season 3 — 29.7

  • The Wire and the Art of the Credit Sequence: Season 1 — 28.7

  • The Wire and the Art of the Credit Sequence: Season 2 — 28.7

  • The Threepenny Opera - Shooting Down Pictures — 22.7

  • Shooting Down Pictures #919 (60): Two English Girls — 24.6

  • Shooting Down Pictures #918 (59): Night of the Demon — 16.6

  • Shooting Down Pictures #917 (58): The Go-Between — 10.6

  • Shooting Down Pictures #916 (57): Light Sleeper — 29.5

  • Shooting Down Pictures #915 (56): El Topo — 26.5

  • Shooting Down Pictures: The Outlaw Josey Wales — 15.5

  • Shooting Down Pictures: O Lucky Man! — 26.4

  • Seventh Heaven featuring Paolo Cherchi Usai — 11.4

  • They Died with Their Boots On w/ Matt Zoller Seitz — 30.3

  • They Died with Their Boots On: w/ Matt Zoller Seitz pt. 2 — 30.3

  • Le femme infidele and Le boucher - sequence analyses — 27.3

  • Two films by Claude Chabrol - analysis by Dan Sallitt — 27.3

  • Shooting Down Pictures: La femme infidele and Le boucher — 27.3

  • Shooting Down Pictures #908: Duel (Steven Spielberg) — 22.3

  • Shooting Down Pictures #906 (47): The Woman in the Window — 16.2

  • Shooting Down Pictures #905 (46): Tobacco Road — 14.2

  • Shooting Down Pictures #903 (44): Burnt by the Sun — 3.2

  • Shooting Down Pictures #902 (43): Hour of the Star — 14.1

2009

2008

  • Talk to Me — 1.12

  • Swimming Pool — 13.11

  • A Revolution on Screen Part 2 — 23.9

  • A Revolution on Screen Part 1 — 23.9

  • Lucifer Rising — 18.8

  • L'Intrus — 17.8

  • The Lusty Men — 6.8

  • Lost in Translation with Stephanie Zacharek — 4.8

  • The Saga of Gosta Berling — 13.6

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — 1.5

  • Broken Flowers with Jessica Winter — 30.4

  • Johnny Got His Gun and Metallica's One — 28.4

  • Susan Sontag on Hitler — 17.3

  • Kristin Thompson on La roue — 18.2

  • Kristin Thompson on Variety — 18.2

  • Michel Ciment - Positif on American Cinema — 1.2

  • The World According to Garp feat. Christianne Benedict — 5.1

  • Eastwood Critics Roundtable Pt 3: The Eastwood Look — 3.1

  • Eastwood Critics Roundtable Pt 2: Gran Torino — 3.1

  • Eastwood Critics Roundtable Pt 1: Changeling — 3.1.

2007

  • Shooting Down Pictures #937: Il Posto - Intro — 8.12

  • Shooting Down Pictures #937: Il Posto - Sequence Analyses — 8.12

  • Shooting Down Pictures #936: The Vanishing Compared to Zodiac — 3.12

  • Shooting Down Pictures #938: Dames — 30.11

  • Shooting Down Pictures #934: Unfaithfully Yours — 6.9

  • Shooting Down Pictures #933: Evil Dead 2 — 3.9

  • Shooting Down Pictures #932: ... And God Created Woman — 10.8

  • The Heiress — 23.7

  • The Saragossa Manuscript — 19.7

  • Inferno (1980, Dario Argento) — 18.6

  • America America — 17.6

  • Sugar Cane Alley — 29.5

  • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (dir. Sam Peckinpah) — 22.5

  • Louisiana Story (dir. Robert Flaherty) — 16.5

  • La Haine (dir. Matthieu Kassovitz) — 8.5

  • Peter Ibbetson — 27.4

  • While the City Sleeps- 25.4