video essay
-
Press Play0 commentslike97tweet23
VIDEO: The Magnificent Andersons
Wes Anderson has established himself as an irreplaceable and elusive American storyteller. Yet, for a director who addresses such heavy themes in his work, Anderson himself remains an enigma.
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike6tweet13
VIDEO - PLAY DIRTY with Alejandro Adams: NO BLADE OF GRASS
Press Play introduces Play Dirty, a series in which filmmaker Alejandro Adams brings his unkempt insight and usual disregard for propriety to the video essay form, occasionally dragging along a guest to savage or praise a given film.
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike17tweet36
VIDEO ESSAY: Sight and Sound Film Poll - Jonathan Rosenbaum on SATANTANGO
From a personal standpoint, it is fitting that the second video of this series, following the opening tribute to Roger Ebert, features Jonathan Rosenbaum. It was through Ebert that I discovered Rosenbaum's writing 14 years ago, when his weekly reviews for The Chicago Reader made Ebert's list of "20 ...
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike2tweet6
VIDEO ESSAY - Hijacking Michael Haneke
The most exacting filmmaker of our time, Michael Haneke brings a new film to Cannes and a new question to the table: To truly see a Michael Haneke film, should we be prepared to see through it?
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike24tweet14
VIDEO ESSAY: Three Reasons: MEN IN BLACK
For this month’s Criterion Consideration, coming up with a suitable equivalent to Barry Sonnenfeld's latest film, "Men in Black III," was a bit of a challenge.
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike153tweet54
VIDEO ESSAY - The Sight and Sound Film Poll: An International Tribute to Roger Ebert and His Favorite Films
Press Play introduces Sight and Sound Film Poll: Critics' Picks, a series of video essays featuring prominent film critics on films they selected for Sight and Sound magazine's poll of the greatest films of all time. New videos will premiere each week until the poll results are announced later this ...
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike0tweet0
VIDEO ESSAY: Law and Disorder in Ying Liang’s THE OTHER HALF
Exiled from China in the wake of last week’s premiere of WHEN NIGHT FALLS, Ying Liang has built a resume of brave challenges to the system. A video essay takes a close look at the best of those, THE OTHER HALF.
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike16tweet25
VIDEO ESSAY: Dial K for Kurosawa
The perfect crime, the wrong man, the speeding train, and the surprising MacGuffin. "High and Low" has all the best elements of a great Alfred Hitchcock film. But it isn’t Hitchcock—it’s Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese director better known for his samurai flicks and complex moral tales.
Read More » -
Press Play0 commentslike23tweet10
-
Press Play0 commentslike7tweet1
VIDEO ESSAY - Deceptive Surfaces: The Films of Christian Petzold
Film history, class consciousness merge in the brilliantly no-nonsense filmmaking of Christian Petzold.
Read More »
fresh from the blogs
-
CANNES 2012: David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLISPress Play
-
Women's Films Opening - May 25Women and Hollywood
-
Oscar Talk Is Back! Special Cannes Edition Thompson on Hollywood
-
Forget HBO's "Girls" & Watch Issa Rae's "Awkward Black ...Shadow and Act
-
Carly Rae Jepsen is the Third Stage in the Miley Cyrus-Lady ...The Lost Boys
-
Men In Black 3—movie reviewLeonard Maltin
-
Cannes Review Capsule: 'Cosmopolis'Criticwire
-
Cannes Review: 'Mud' Starring Matthew McConaughey Is ...The Playlist
on 
