I’m wondering if you know about any creators making analysis or historical commentary on film.
The only one I know is Every Frame a Painting, can you recommend others in a similar vein?
Captain Disillusion! More VFX than anything else. He debunks viral videos and explains how the effects are achieved.
His video on the special effects of Fight of the Navigator is one of the best “making of” videos I’ve seen. They should license it and put it on the Blu-ray, it’s that good.
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Captain disilusion
If you are lucky you get one video a year, but it will be good
Nerdstalgic, CinemaStix, CGY, Corridor Crew, captainmidnight are some of my favorites. Some of these focus on TV series too, up to you if you’re into that
Seconding Corridor Crew, they have so many amazing series on these topics.
They sadly let some questionable connections shine through every now and then. Nothing terrible but enough to make me more cautious of opinions of theirs than i used to be
Care to elaborate?
It started with some “funny” jabs at wearing masks during late pandemic, aaand they hang (afaik, at least never said otherwise) with black rifle coffee co guys, who are all kinds of problematic.
VFX? Captain Disillusion.
Nerdwriter, KaptainKristian, Lessons from the Screenplay
Lessons from the Screenplay is great but seems like he hasn’t released a new video in a very long time :(
I really enjoy Thomas Flight - very high-quality film/filmmaking video essays.
In a similar vein: Patrick (H) Willems
Not in a similar vein but funny: Red letter media
The only YouTube series I follow is RedLetterMedia: https://piped.video/@RedLetterMedia
Don’t know if in similar vein at all, but corridor and corridor crew
Corridor crew, they’ve given me a lot of insight regarding vfx and editing, and i genuinely have learned a lot from them. Quite an inspiring group of people imo!
I used to follow corridor crew before they started huffing their own farts.
I got odd cryptochud vibes that I couldnt put my finger on. I heard they did a video on Twin Peaks The Return and that sounds like a comedy sketch with a narrow appeal.
In Praise of shadows (horror films and history of horror in film, television, and novels)
https://www.youtube.com/@InPraiseofShadows
CinemaStix (directing, writing, some production)
https://www.youtube.com/@CinemaStix
Mr. Sunday Movies (podcast format of western pop culture media)
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https://www.piped.video/@mrsundaymovies
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Surprised to not see anyone in here mention Movies with Mikey (on YouTube under FilmJoy). He does really thoughtful movie analysis with great audio and video production. He’s one of my favorite creators.
He’s also on Nebula for people who’d rather see a video edit that can employ fair use without being taken down automatically.
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Danny Boyd at CinemaStix does good content
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I just stumbled across this Incredible dissection of the VFX in Attack of the Clones
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