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 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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MAD MEN RECAP 6: AT THE CODFISH BALL

Television
"It’s the future. It’s all I ever wanted."
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  • By Deborah Lipp
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  • April 30, 2012 1:33 AM
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GIRLS RECAP 3: ALL ADVENTUROUS WOMEN DO

Television
Remember those Cosmo-ish "Which Sex & the City character are you?" quizzes that every single editorial outlet featured during that show's run? Of course you couldn't take the results seriously; you can't "be" one of those people, because those people weren't people. They were slices of people, meant to illustrate (and easier to write than) the composite, contradictory whole.
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  • By Sarah D. Bunting
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  • April 29, 2012 10:55 PM
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GAME OF THRONES RECAP 5: THE GHOST OF HARRENHAL

Television
One of the most appealing things about "Game Of Thrones" as a fantasy narrative is the lack of magic at the core of its story.
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  • By Rowan Kaiser
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  • April 29, 2012 9:55 PM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Where Experiment Meets the Mainstream

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In an age of redundant remakes ("Total Recall," "Fright Night"), attempted revamps ("21 Jump Street," "The Three Stooges") and even 3D re-launchings ("Titanic 3D," "Star Wars: Episode 1 - 3D") of past Hollywood fare, it’s easy to become disheartened at the current state of film and television.
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  • By Nelson Carvajal
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  • April 27, 2012 9:31 AM
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GREY MATTERS: PERSON OF INTEREST: A Noir for the New Depression

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Person of Interest isn’t the sole new scripted television show in the Top Five because it’s a gold standard procedural mystery. Or because it’s a terrific grown-up look at living with regret that also finds time to explore post 9-11 hot topics of class and morality in the New Depression.
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  • By Ian Grey
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  • April 27, 2012 8:55 AM
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VIDEO - Motion Studies #29: Vertigo Variations

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This first part of an hour long video essay spins an elaborate tale of a lifelong obsession with Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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  • By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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  • April 26, 2012 12:21 PM
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SIMON SAYS: Productive Awfulness, or: THE RAVEN Opens This Week

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I often wonder if there is such a thing as a productively awful film.
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  • By Simon Abrams
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  • April 26, 2012 8:59 AM
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VIDEO - Motion Studies #28: Redlettermedia's STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE

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A viral sensation, this fanboy parody uses a multi-layered arsenal of disarming rhetoric, satirizing film geek analysis as a way to make its underlying film geek analysis palatable to a wide audience.
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  • By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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  • April 25, 2012 11:56 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Edward Yang's THE TERRORIZERS, presented by The Seventh Art

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The Terrorizers is not just a postmodern film, but "the postmodern film."
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  • By The Seventh Art
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  • April 25, 2012 9:09 AM
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Close Cuts: The Adaptation Process in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

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That "No Country For Old Men" constitutes one of Cormac McCarthy’s “lesser” works probably says more about McCarthy’s genius than it does about the book’s individual strengths or weaknesses.
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  • By Mark Greenbaum
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  • April 25, 2012 8:55 AM
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