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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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VIDEO ESSAY: Steadicam Progress - the Career of Paul Thomas Anderson in Five Shots

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With The Master winning the Best Cinematography award from the National Society of Film Critics over the weekend, here's a look at the evolution of Paul Thomas Anderson's approach to his films' camerawork over his first five features
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • January 7, 2013 12:47 PM
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More: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights, Cinematography

VIDEO ESSAY: Cocaine du Cinema

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Cocaine’s presence in movies is a tricky object to dissect. Even with an awful, bloody contemporary history under its belt, cocaine seems to be the “cool” drug for modern cinematic heroes and heroines.
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  • By Nelson Carvajal
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  • June 13, 2012 8:55 AM
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More: NELSON CARVAJAL, video essay, Video, Cocaine, Boogie Nights, Pulp Fiction, Corky Romano

VERTIGOED: BOOGIE NIGHTS

Vertigoed: Boogie Nights from Bohemian Cinema on Vimeo.
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  • By Jonathan Pacheco
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  • May 1, 2011 2:37 AM
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