Video essays on screenwriting and film directing.

This is a channel featuring unabashadly formalistic analyses of cinematic style and form.

Here you'll learn to see the invisible beauty of great filmmaking. You'll learn to pay attention to how actors move, how cameras move, how the screen is used, how talented directors make scenes visually interesting, how great dialogue is written, how a great plot is structured.

I defend that, regardless of artistic intent or personal interpretation or cultural influence, there are objective aspects in stories and visuals that make movies succeed or fail as art, and by examining shots and screenplays we can find out what they are.

And we'll have some laughs along the way.


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