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"The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This web site is built on a mix of original video essays and critical, personal writing about film, TV, and their connection to broader cultural concerns. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is overseen by Editor-in-Chief Max Winter.

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VIDEO: Passover Greetings from Yul, Charlton and the Biblical Posse at Pharaoh High

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A comedy 3000 years in the making.

By Kevin B. Lee
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April 6, 2012 8:21 AM
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Motion Studies #13: The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir

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A video love letter that distills film noir movies into their atmospheric essence.

By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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April 6, 2012 8:03 AM
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Press Play is proud to co-present a new series of video essays produced by The Seventh Art, an independently produced video magazine on cinema. Our initial co-presentation is a lengthy critical video essay on Moneyball, coinciding with the opening week of Major League Baseball.

By Christopher Heron
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April 5, 2012 9:23 AM
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The films of Italian writer/director Nanni Moretti primarily revolve around his own ego and then secondarily around questions of moral responsibility, specifically the extent to which we function in society.

By Simon Abrams
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April 5, 2012 8:57 AM
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An exploration of the remix techniques involved in producing films.

By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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April 5, 2012 8:57 AM
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This experimental film column began its life at "The Rumpus," and we are very excited to see it continue here. The column freezes the frames of a film at the 10, 40, and 70 minute marks, using these points as the foundations for an essay.

By Nicholas Rombes
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April 4, 2012 9:15 AM
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A stunning montage that tunnels through the media distortion field as depicted in dozens of movie and video clips.

By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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April 4, 2012 8:46 AM
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Reviews

Wherefore art thou, O Whit Stillman? Though never exactly a blur in motion, the minor auteur managed to generate three hyper-stylized, hyper-talky meditations on manners, morality and money throughout the ‘90s—the last of which, "Last Days of Disco," proved his best known and arguably finest.

By Lisa Rosman
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April 4, 2012 8:40 AM
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Paul Thomas Anderson is a director who wears his cinematic influences on his sleeve.

By Nelson Carvajal
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April 4, 2012 8:36 AM
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Blogs

“Critical Film Studies,” the 19th episode of the 2nd season of “Community,” was probably pretty confusing to most fans of the series when it aired in the Spring of 2011.

By Calum Marsh
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April 3, 2012 8:52 AM
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