The Best Rotoscoped Movies, Explained
Reading Time: 4 minutesRotoscoping is the strangest trick in animation: you film real actors, then draw over the footage frame by frame. The result moves with... Read more.
The Best Slapstick Comedies: 12 Funniest of All Time
Reading Time: 5 minutesSlapstick is one of the oldest types of comedy there is: bodies falling, things breaking, perfect physical timing, turning chaos into art.... Read more.
The Best Match Cut Examples in Film: 10 Genius Transitions from Cinema History
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe match cut is one of editing’s most elegant moves, and one of the most misused words in film writing. A real match cut is a hard... Read more.
Best Jump Cuts in Film: 9 Scenes Worth Studying
Reading Time: 4 minutesA jump cut snips a chunk of time out of a single continuous shot, so the subject seems to lurch forward in place. It breaks the invisible... Read more.
100+ Best Movie Quotes of All Time: The Definitive List
Reading Time: 11 minutesA great movie quote does one thing: it leaves the screen, enters everyday conversation, and stays there for decades. The best ones are... Read more.
The L-Cut and J-Cut: How Film Editors Use Audio to Control Time
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe L-cut and J-cut let editors separate audio and picture to control exactly what an audience feels before they see it. Here is how the... Read more.
Mario Bava: The Man Who Invented Italian Horror
Reading Time: 8 minutesBefore Dario Argento, before Lucio Fulci, there was Mario Bava. He shot other directors’ films for twenty years, solving problems with... Read more.
The Poliziotteschi: Italy’s Answer to the American Crime Film
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn 1971, two American films arrived in Italian cinemas and changed everything. The French Connection and Dirty Harry showed Italian audiences... Read more.
Fellini’s Dream Sequences: Craft Lessons from 8½
Reading Time: 7 minutesItalian director and screenwriter Federico Fellini never studied psychology, but he spent decades in Jungian analysis, and the collaboration... Read more.
Elliptical Editing: How Films Compress Time Into Seconds
Reading Time: 6 minutesA bone flies into the air. Cut. A spacecraft drifts silently through orbit. In one edit, Stanley Kubrick skipped four million years of human... Read more.