Saturday, July 7, 2018

7 new trailers you should watch this week

I don’t entirely understand how it happened that ‘film analysis videos’ became such a big thing on YouTube. I suspect a lot of it is thanks to how fun and accessible Tony Zhou’s videos were — but even before him, creators like Kogonada (who went on to direct his own, acclaimed feature) were making film essays.

Nowadays, the genre is so big that there’s also a lot out there that… isn’t great. But this week, a film essay got posted that’s absolutely worth sharing: it’s an hour-and-a-half-long breakdown on film structure and how endings work from Michael Arndt, the screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3.

I watched the entire thing over the past few days, and while I’ll be the first to admit that it’s really long, it’s also...

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