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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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The online video essay format opened a new playing field for critical and scholarly analysis of movies, providing opportunities for innovative explorations of films while also challenging the established conventions and limitations of text-based film criticism and scholarship.

By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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May 2, 2012 2:46 PM
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At the end of "The Dark Knight," Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) had to explain to his son why Batman (Christian Bale) was being willfully chased by police—disgracing himself and abandoning his post for the greater good of Gotham. The new trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises" zeroes in on the sleepy void that abandonment left behind.

By R. Kurt Osenlund
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May 2, 2012 12:30 PM
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For decades, the detective Phillip Marlowe has been iconic character in American cinema. But who is Phillip Marlowe? What exactly makes Phillip Marlowe, and what if he couldn’t be Marlowe anymore?

By Peter Labuza
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May 2, 2012 8:51 AM
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Films that showcase nightlife as a business have a way of settling into their guilt, reminding us that parties have moral consequences despite being the main attraction (think "54," which uses a whole institution to symbolize nightlife's rise and fall).

By R. Kurt Osenlund
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May 1, 2012 8:59 AM
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May 1, 2012 8:30 AM
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Part of an hour-long series of twenty online videos called Connect Film. The videos, meant as companions to the Film Art textbook, explore major concepts of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound.

By Volker Pantenburg and Kevin B. Lee
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May 1, 2012 2:36 AM
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