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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: Gliding Over All: The Cinematography of BREAKING BAD, Season 3

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Dave Bunting Jr.’s video essay on Season 3 of "Breaking Bad" opens with time-lapse landscapes, which are de rigueur establishing shots in TV these days. Here, though, they are uniquely awe-inspiring, in part for their exotic nature, and in part for how they seem to breathe life into everything.
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  • By Dave Bunting, Jr. and Gary Sullivan
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  • March 15, 2013 8:35 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Gliding Over All: The Cinematography of Breaking Bad, Season 4

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Hollywood can keep its 3D, its CGI and whatever Dolby Surround version they’re up to now. For a contemporary cinematic experience as visceral and visually arresting as "Breaking Bad," audiences must look abroad, to Gaspar Noé’s "Enter the Void," or further, to films coming out of Thailand, Japan, and South Korea.
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  • By Dave Bunting, Jr. and Gary Sullivan
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  • October 25, 2012 8:45 AM
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Ten Bollywood Memories I'll Take With Me To My Grave

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If you’re like most Americans, your first exposure to Bollywood cinema was almost assuredly via the opening scene of Terry Zwigoff’s "Ghost World."
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  • By Gary Sullivan
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  • July 27, 2012 9:26 AM
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