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Tag: video essay

Video Essay: Blade Runner 2049‘s Denis Villeneuve and the Silent Close-Up

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By Jacob T. Swinney | August 30, 2017
By Jacob T. Swinney | August 30, 2017

Video Essay: Blade Runner 2049‘s Denis Villeneuve and the Silent Close-Up

In anticipation of the biggest film of Villeneuve's career so far, a look at his most striking visual trademark.

Video: Now That’s What I Call Rushmore!

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By Kentucker Audley | August 16, 2017
By Kentucker Audley | August 16, 2017

Video: Now That’s What I Call Rushmore!

Kentucker Audley is a huge fan of Rushmore, but has found a cool way to make Wes Anderson's breakthrough hit even better.

Video Essay: Stephen King at the Movies

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By Jacob T. Swinney | August 4, 2017
By Jacob T. Swinney | August 4, 2017

Video Essay: Stephen King at the Movies

With The Dark Tower in theaters and It on the horizon, we look at the many and varied Stephen King adaptations.

Video: If The Graduate Had the Soundtrack from Garden State

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By Kentucker Audley | July 19, 2017
By Kentucker Audley | July 19, 2017

Video: If The Graduate Had the Soundtrack from Garden State

Kentucker Audley looks at what happens when Dustin Hoffman's breakthrough movie is shorn of Simon & Garfunkel and gets some hip new songs.

Video Essay: Liar Liar and the Importance of Family

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By Kentucker Audley | June 19, 2017
By Kentucker Audley | June 19, 2017

Video Essay: Liar Liar and the Importance of Family

Kentucker Audley, the internet's most insightful video essayist, delves deep into the complexities of Jim Carrey's 1997 classic.

Video Essay: Falling in Reverse

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By Jacob T. Swinney | May 1, 2017
By Jacob T. Swinney | May 1, 2017

Video Essay: Falling in Reverse

What happens if you take one of cinema's most recognizable tropes, and then turn it upside down?

Video Essay: She’s All That and the Power of Transformation

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By Kentucker Audley | April 24, 2017
By Kentucker Audley | April 24, 2017

Video Essay: She’s All That and the Power of Transformation

Talkhouse Film's senior video essayist Kentucker Audley highlights the pleasures (and faults!) of yet another classic movie

Video Essay: Malick’s Shadows

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By Jacob T. Swinney | March 22, 2017
By Jacob T. Swinney | March 22, 2017

Video Essay: Malick’s Shadows

With Terrence Malick's Song to Song in theaters now, Jacob T. Swinney's video essay looks at a recent motif in the director's films.

Video Essay: Richie Rich and the Search for Friends in Cinema

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By Kentucker Audley | February 21, 2017
By Kentucker Audley | February 21, 2017

Video Essay: Richie Rich and the Search for Friends in Cinema

Kentucker Audley continues his series of transformative video essays by examining another classic '90s film, this time starring Macaulay Culkin.

Video: She Persisted by Steve Lippman

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By Steve Lippman | February 14, 2017
By Steve Lippman | February 14, 2017

Video: She Persisted by Steve Lippman

Women including Rosanne Cash, Carly Simon and Bridget Everett read Coretta Scott King's letter on Jeff Sessions in solidarity with Elizabeth Warren.

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