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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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TRAILER MIX: House at the End of the Street

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The trailer for "House at the End of the Street" goes all "Memento" on its viewers from the start, beginning at what appears to be the film's climactic chase scene, then winding back, in snippets, to a nasty origin story.
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  • By R. Kurt Osenlund
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  • April 3, 2012 8:38 AM
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Motion Studies #10: Pure

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A slew of visual cues from action movies create a kind of auto-critical futurist paean to maximum velocity.
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  • By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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  • April 3, 2012 8:36 AM
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Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW reimagined by artist Jeff Desom

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Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo.
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  • By Jeff Desom
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  • April 3, 2012 5:46 AM
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MAD MEN RECAP 2: TEA LEAVES

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"When is everything going to get back to normal?"
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  • By Deborah Lipp
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  • April 2, 2012 8:59 AM
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Motion Studies #9: Rose Hobart

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The original movie remix.
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  • By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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  • April 2, 2012 8:03 AM
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GAME OF THRONES RECAP 1: THE NORTH REMEMBERS

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The second season of the densely, intricately plotted fantasy series "Game Of Thrones" is going to have to attempt something never before done on television.
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  • By Rowan Kaiser
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  • April 1, 2012 9:55 PM
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