This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.

For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...

An analysis of Quentin Dupieux's film "Incredible But True" by film critic Elena Lazic.

Dedicated to the Children of Ukraine, victims of the brutal Russian invasion...Let everyone ask them...

George Lucas discusses how Joseph Campbell and his concept of the Monomyth (aka the Hero's Journey) ...

A psychotic filmmaker named Philip summons a manifestation of Stanley Kubrick into his apartment to ...

A desktop documentary that focuses on the Golden Record that NASA sent into space in the late 1970s....

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster...

What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Gar...

A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill ...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer o...

Video essay exploring Luca Guadagnino's filmmaking methods, focusing on the passionate dynamics of d...

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais sh...

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'...

A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) ...
A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and sev...


A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".

Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets...