Video Essays List

2016

  • 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

2015

  • 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