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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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Sell Out the Hallway—Room 237 and the Stakes of Found Footage

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"Room 237" bears a strong anti-intellectual impulse, more geared towards ramping up the spectacular weirdness of its interviewees than towards taking their ideas seriously.
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • April 11, 2013 8:35 AM
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ROOM 237 and the Attack of the Id Critic

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"Room 237" is the first great comedy about film criticism. Or maybe it’s the first great horror-comedy. Or maybe I’m reading too much into it.
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  • By Robert Greene
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  • April 9, 2013 8:35 AM
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Raised in Fear: The Shining as R-Rated Christmas Ghost Story

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Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining" is not generally considered a family picture, but it is certainly one of the most brutally honest films ever made about the nature of family relationships. I discovered this when seeing the film for the first time with my father when I was fourteen.
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  • By Jed Mayer
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  • December 20, 2012 8:31 AM
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Raised in Fear: Obsolete Technology, Retro-Futurism, Ultra-Violence, and Stanley Kubrick

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I have always been drawn to visions of the future, but little did I know what brutal images were held on the Beta videocassette of Stanley Kubrick’s "A Clockwork Orange" I rented at the tender age of ten.
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  • By Jed Mayer
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  • December 11, 2012 8:34 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: 2001/The Dawn of Blood

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Paul Thomas Anderson is a director who wears his cinematic influences on his sleeve.
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  • By Nelson Carvajal
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  • April 4, 2012 8:36 AM
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  • 4 Comments
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