Vancouver Never Plays Itself
Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third
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Catégorie : Analyse de Film
Analyse de Film
Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist
If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. Normally
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In Praise of Chairs
One of the great things about detailed production design is that it pays off in unexpected ways. So today I
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Lynne Ramsay – The Poetry of Details
What can one detail tell us about a scene? If you’re Lynne Ramsay: absolutely everything. Today I consider the poetic
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F for Fake (1973) – How to Structure a Video Essay
If you want to make video essays, there’s no better film to study than Orson Welles’ 1973 masterpiece, F for
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Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement
Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had
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Drive (2011) – The Quadrant System
One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and
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The Bad Sleep Well (1960) – The Geometry of a Scene
One of Akira Kurosawa’s many gifts was staging scenes in ways that were bold, simple and visual. I’m working on
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Jackie Chan – How to Do Action Comedy
Some filmmakers can do action. Others can do comedy. But for 40 years, the master of combining them has been
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Snowpiercer – Left or Right
Characters make choices which they cannot take back. The question is: how do you show it visually? Here’s one solution
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