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...

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

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais sh...
An analysis of the critical themes in Dario Argento's 70s Giallo "Deep Red".

A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of w...

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

An extension of the Benign Violation theory of comedy developed by Tom Veatch and A. Peter McGraw an...

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

A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) ...


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

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

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

What begins as an impassioned defense of empathy in children's programming takes Lindsay Ellis down ...

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

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

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stend...