PickVidsBest Film analysis & criticism Videos
The 39 Film analysis & criticism videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 0 intermediate, 39 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include Every Frame a Painting, RedLetterMedia, Kirby Ferguson.
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting analyzes how Jackie Chan stages action comedy, with nine principles such as starting from a disadvantage, using the environment, clear shots, and keeping action and reaction in the same frame.
Everything is a Remix (Original Series)
Kirby Ferguson's video essay series arguing that creativity is built on copying, transforming and combining existing work.
The Marvel Symphonic Universe
An Every Frame a Painting video essay asking why Marvel films lack memorable musical themes.
The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Jenny Nicholson's roughly four-hour review of her two-night stay on Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser immersive hotel.
Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on how Akira Kurosawa used movement, weather and composition to tell stories.
Vancouver Never Plays Itself
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting about Vancouver, a major film production city that almost never appears onscreen as itself.
The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
Super Eyepatch Wolf analyzes why The Simpsons declined after its golden age, pointing to changes in the writers' room and a shift in the style and complexity of its comedy.
Pink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
Pink Floyd's Echoes played in sync with the final Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite segment of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool
Captain Disillusion's VFXcool episode, led by Alan Melikdjanian, takes a 41-minute nostalgic look at how the visual effects of Flight of the Navigator were made.
Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Michael Bay's style, 'Bayhem', covering his camera movement, composition, color and editing.
Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
An Every Frame a Painting video essay analysing how Edgar Wright creates visual comedy through framing, camera movement, editing, sound effects and music.
Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
A short excerpt from The Pervert's Guide to Ideology in which Slavoj Zizek analyzes John Carpenter's They Live.
Dune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux edited by Spicediver / Multiple Subs / 4K Upscaling by GW
A 4K AI-upscaled, subtitled fan edit of David Lynch's 1984 Dune by Spicediver that restores deleted and lost footage to form an alternative cut.
The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
The first part of Lindsay Ellis's video essay series on the troubled production and critical reception of The Hobbit film trilogy.
My Octopus Teacher: The Greatest Horror Film
Maggie Mae Fish analyzes the documentary My Octopus Teacher as an eco-horror film, critiquing it as a story of a man projecting his own needs onto a wild animal.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)
The first of seven parts of RedLetterMedia's long review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi
Corridor Crew VFX artists react to the visual effects of the 2021 Dune and compare them with David Lynch's 1984 version.
Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
An Every Frame a Painting video essay on Buster Keaton's visual comedy, examining how he built and framed his gags.
Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)
Kirby Ferguson's updated four-part video essay arguing that creativity is built on copying, transforming and combining existing work.
Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, in which a psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet with an alien intelligence and meets his dead wife there.
Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
A video essay from Every Frame a Painting on animator Satoshi Kon and his editing style, which distorts and warps space and time.
Back to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
Captain Disillusion explains the visual effects behind the Back to the Future trilogy.
Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)
A film-analysis video essay linking Blade Runner 2049's Cells Interlinked sequence to Nabokov's Pale Fire.
YMS: Kimba the White Lion
A roughly two and a half hour YMS video on Kimba the White Lion that investigates the claim that Disney's The Lion King copied it.