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Taxi Driver | The Films That Inspired Martin Scorsese
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In this video essay, I examine the films that influenced Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Featuring The Searchers, Pickpocket, Psycho, Breathless, and many more.
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7 Films You'll Want to See from Cannes
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For a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/thediscardedimage A look into some highly anticipated films from the Cannes Film Festival, with a brief write-up for 7 films. www.patreon.com/thediscardedimage MUBI will be showing Close (Lukas Dhont) and Decision to Leave (Park Chan-Wook) both theatrically and our their platform in these territories: CLOSE UK/IE, LATAM, TR & IN DECISION ...
Why Licorice Pizza is So Disjointed
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For a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/thediscardedimage This video essay breaks down Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, exploring what makes the film so disjointed and chaotic. And there are references to other PTA films such as There Will Be Blood, The Master and Phantom Thread. www.patreon.com/thediscardedimage #licoricepizza #paulthomasanderson All music is licensed fr...
I Wanted To Hate The Batman
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The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/thediscardedimage03221 This video essay looks at my stubborn resistance to watching Matt Reeves' The Batman because of my feelings towards the superhero genre. It includes a brief review of the film. #thebatman All music is licensed from Musicbed. Get a free trial by following this affiliate link - share...
Dune | How The Suspense Works In This Set-Piece
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For a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/thediscardedimage This video essay breaks down the spice harvester suspense set-piece in Denis Villeneuve's Dune. #dune #videoessay All music is licensed from Musicbed. Get a free trial by following this affiliate link - share.mscbd.fm/thediscardedimage Follow Me: julianjpalmer​​ www. TheDiscardedImageUK​​ ...
The French Dispatch | How The Stories Connect
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The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: ​skl.sh/thediscardedimage02221 This video essay looks at Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, and explores the common themes found throughout the individual stories. #wesanderson #thefrenchdispatch All music is licensed from Musicbed. Get a free trial by following this affiliate link - share.mscbd.fm/thediscarde...
How Wes Anderson Masks Emotion
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The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/thediscardedimage10211 With The French Dispatch in cinemas, I thought I'd take a look at the idiosyncratic ways Wes Anderson creates emotion in his films, often masking it with comedy and other techniques. I use films from throughout his filmography, including The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Fantastic Mr. ...
James Bond | How The Pre-Title Sequence Evolved
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The first 1000 people to use the link will get a one-month free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/thediscardedimage09211 With No Time to Die coming to the cinemas, in this video essay I look at the evolution of the James Bond pre-title sequence including 007 films such as Goldfinger, The Spy Who Loved Me, Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Skyfall and Spectre. Support the channel - www.patr...
How Denis Villeneuve Found His Voice
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The first 1000 people to use the link will get a one-month free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/thediscardedimage08211 With Dune on the horizon, in this video essay I look at the career of Denis Villeneuve, to see how he found his cinematic voice and evolved as a director. Including films such as Polytechnique, Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, and Blade Runner 2049. Suppor...
Blow-Up | Murder In The Abstract
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Kelly Reichardt's FIRST COW is now streaming exclusively on MUBI in most countries. Get 30 Days FREE: mubi.com/thediscardedimage With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. In this video essay I breakdown Michelangelo Antonioni's 60s classic Blow-Up, looking at how it takes the murder mystery thriller and distorts its conventions. Support the channel - www....
The Oscars' Decline Is Bad News For Cinema
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Try MUBI Free for 30 Days: mubi.com/thediscardedimage​​ With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. In this video essay I look at the Oscars' declining viewership in recent years, and why this could be bad news for the film industry, and cinema at large. Included in the discussion are films like this years best picture winner Nomadland, as well as previous ...
Carrie | Brian De Palma's Self-Aware Horror
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Try MUBI Free for 30 Days: mubi.com/thediscardedimage​ With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. In this video essay we look at Brian De Palma's Carrie, the ground-breaking horror film from 1976, starring Sissy Spacek. In the second of our New Hollywood Series, we discuss how De Palma combines the suspense techniques of Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Psyc...
The Godfather | Reinventing The Gangster
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Try MUBI Free for 30 Days: mubi.com/thediscardedimage​ With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. In this video essay, we look at Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, the immortal classic starring Al Pacino and Marlon Brando. Close to the film's 50th anniversary, we discuss its bold reinvention of the classic gangster film, and why it's a historic New Hol...
Mank | Why David Fincher Embraced Old Hollywood Artifice
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Try MUBI Free for 30 Days: mubi.com/thediscardedimage With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. In this video essay we look at David Fincher's Mank, and explore how the director uses artifice to comment on old Hollywood, and Citizen Kane. The video also features other Fincher films such as The Social Network, Fight Club, Se7en and Zodiac. #Mank #DavidFinc...
There's More To Orson Welles Than Citizen Kane
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Try MUBI Free for 30 Days: mubi.com/thediscardedimage With the support of Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union Plus. Although most celebrated for his first film Citizen Kane, there's so much more to Orson Welles. This video essay explores his entire career, featuring films such as Touch of Evil, F For Fake, The Lady From Shanghai. Chimes at Midnight, The Trial, The Other Side...
Persona | Ingmar Bergman's Psychological Breakthrough
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Persona | Ingmar Bergman's Psychological Breakthrough
The Silence of the Lambs | Making a Complex Thriller Character
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The Silence of the Lambs | Making a Complex Thriller Character
Alfred Hitchcock's Visionary Cinematic Language
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Alfred Hitchcock's Visionary Cinematic Language
I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Is it a Horror Film?
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Is it a Horror Film?
Christopher Nolan | Doing It For Real
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Christopher Nolan | Doing It For Real
How Edgar Wright Uses Sound
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How Edgar Wright Uses Sound
La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini's Stylish Cinematic Landmark
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La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini's Stylish Cinematic Landmark
David Lynch | Movies As Therapy
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David Lynch | Movies As Therapy
How Directors Work With Actors
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How Directors Work With Actors
Christopher Nolan's Signature Film | Memento
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Christopher Nolan's Signature Film | Memento
Al Pacino | Underneath the Bravado
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Al Pacino | Underneath the Bravado
Uncut Gems | Do We Love Adam Sandler's Howard?
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Uncut Gems | Do We Love Adam Sandler's Howard?
The Irishman | Is Frank Sheeran a Sociopath?
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The Irishman | Is Frank Sheeran a Sociopath?
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Tarantino at his Most Meta
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | Tarantino at his Most Meta
How Stanley Kubrick Uses Close-Ups
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How Stanley Kubrick Uses Close-Ups

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  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 День тому

    Showing a woman and a man on a bed together partly clothed was a real shocker as well as showing a toilet being flushed. "Psycho" was about as jarring, if not more so, than "The Exorcist" was. Yet in only a little over a decade, standards were so much more relaxed that showing a couple on a bed was nothing compared to watching a little girl masturbate with a crucifix.

  • @trex70
    @trex70 День тому

    I am not the big Tarantino Fan but I realy like this movie. It has a good ending. Not the real ending but sometimes we all wish it would have been changed to the better.

  • @ghostfacedude93
    @ghostfacedude93 5 днів тому

    nah, it's actually great for cinema. The Oscars dont get to decide what a Great film is anymore. We live in the most opinionnated society maybe ever, and art gets to be subjective again. I say strike down the celebrity popularity contest.

  • @callum110597
    @callum110597 7 днів тому

    This is why Steven Spielberg is one of my favourite directors of all time!

  • @standoughope
    @standoughope 8 днів тому

    I've watched Once Upon a Time... almost as many times as I've seen Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds for whatever that's worth. Like The Big Lebowski it gets better and better upon rewatches. Tarantino is such a great and deliberate artist.

  • @Etechtroniks
    @Etechtroniks 10 днів тому

    They can show tits on youtube now??

  • @mandyrarsh7137
    @mandyrarsh7137 11 днів тому

    They are the same one ia the peraona of the other abd that is the puzzle...it ia work around a jungian theory...not two seperate persons no!!!

  • @tammyr1489
    @tammyr1489 14 днів тому

    Like the structure. Loved the main actress. Could not get past the love story between a 15 year old and adult woman. It just made it all….yuck.

  • @Hernal03
    @Hernal03 16 днів тому

    That final scene with the mimes as the camera focuses on the photographers face as he watches the imaginary tennis game is a moment of frightening self-realization --- if you look carefully, you will see a subtle yet clearly expressed change occur in the characters face --- it is when he realizes that he has lost his individuality and given in to the overall illusion that daily tries to entrap us --- the moment where you realize you have become untethered by joining having joined the many and in the process have lost yourself. To be alone in a crowd as it were. A quietly haunting and existentially devastating moment.

  • @mikestamos445
    @mikestamos445 16 днів тому

    THERE IS WELLES THEN DAYLIGHT

  • @dominicvega9267
    @dominicvega9267 18 днів тому

    Because she’s not pretty enough to sit and watch through a 2hour film about a grown women with no friends

  • @Calvin-ks9cr
    @Calvin-ks9cr 20 днів тому

    Great movie but the De Aging CGI puts me off especially when Frank supposed to be younger.

  • @yahyajean
    @yahyajean 22 дні тому

    The background music is a bit too loud and does not really match the topic.

  • @phantomfire8228
    @phantomfire8228 22 дні тому

    2:05

  • @alanlaraperez1189
    @alanlaraperez1189 22 дні тому

    I’d like to complement about that scene with the infrarred night vision perspective, because besides the reference to Godard’s “Alphaville”, it reminded me of FW Murnau’s “Nosferatu”, where there’s a scene when the main character is arriving at Nosferatu’s castle and they turn the image to negative, in a classical german expressionism way, that aims to convey the idea of crossing a threshold into the paranormal world, and I think that Villneuve does the exact same thing, crossing to Mexico (in a symbolic way through the tunnel that reminds of hell) and also crossing a threshold into a world with no law, where the rules Kate understands are completely shattered, as her character ends up being by the end of the film.

  • @Grandebert
    @Grandebert 24 дні тому

    stunning work!!!!!!!

  • @jaysunlickaraisin
    @jaysunlickaraisin 24 дні тому

    Its a movie. You're a man...or woman. Life works with or without you.

  • @alansmithee70
    @alansmithee70 26 днів тому

    Well done. Very impressive. Amazing job

  • @jimjohnson724
    @jimjohnson724 26 днів тому

    I would like to watch the films mentioned here, I wish I had more time like I had when I was in my 20s and was a huge cinephile :)

  • @DJJ81
    @DJJ81 27 днів тому

    Good lord, this is the most long winded, verbose bunch of bullshit of a movie explanation I’ve ever seen. And still no fucking clue what the movie is about.

  • @pradeepprahlad9465
    @pradeepprahlad9465 28 днів тому

    Amazing photography for that era. Apart from Janet Leigh's dead stationary eye ...when the camera focuses up on the running shower from below ,why isn't the water splashing on the camera lens ?

  • @paulinductivo581
    @paulinductivo581 Місяць тому

    11:05 I always get goosebumps from this scene. It's so bittersweet. It is a reminder, especially when the title flashes in the end. One can at least probably tell that this is a good fantasy, but you are still reminded of the reality of what truly happened.

  • @harrycahill2140
    @harrycahill2140 Місяць тому

    Tf are you talking about son!? The film is perfect!

  • @clevlandblock
    @clevlandblock Місяць тому

    "Meta" as in Metamucil, strikes me as made-up word that belongs in prefix land.

  • @D.A.OhK.
    @D.A.OhK. Місяць тому

    Great analysis on a main level of the film. Having been born in the 60's and lived some of my youth in SoCal, I'd like to add that we're also seeing the naivete of 1970's American culture, allowing us to laugh at ourselves regarding where we were and where we've gotten.

  • @watch-Dominion-2018
    @watch-Dominion-2018 Місяць тому

    Great video 👍

  • @adamkhan1750
    @adamkhan1750 Місяць тому

    11:40 which film?

  • @leacwpc
    @leacwpc Місяць тому

    Loved you comment on the push and pull of the movie and the idea that the adult world isn't all that is cracked up to be for the characters

  • @user-il5oq5df6l
    @user-il5oq5df6l Місяць тому

    When we first see Janet Leigh, she's in her stocking feet! Her tootsies looked great in hose.

  • @Knuts_n
    @Knuts_n Місяць тому

    An important connecting through line is the art of stories. It's structured in segments as articles of a magazine to illustrate the profound stories of life. Each segment is experienced by a writer and told in a way to emphasize their presence in the story. Because ultimately they're the final say of what gets told, what they deem important enough to include is indicative of themself as a person. The final scene where they're writing the editor-in-chiefs obituary ties these stories together beautifully. Every writer in that room was influenced by the editor because of the pushes he made. They all had the support from him to write what they really felt needed to be written. His life was dedicated to stories and in a room of writers gathered around his body. They each recognize the need to tell his story. This movie is a love letter to writers everywhere.

  • @suraj2560
    @suraj2560 Місяць тому

    I guess the beach scene explains everything,it happened with one of the persona and in some a way it bothered her mind so may be she created alma in her mind (also she is a actor it could be one of the role she played)alma literally means soul and persona in Latin means mask so may be in the beach story with Katarina and two boys actually there was Elizabeth who was with them and she is just telling it to herself you can see Elizabeth never speaks it's only alma and alma also says nobody listens to her you are the only one so basically alma (internal self) is just a soul of Elizabeth and Elizabeth is just mask (external self)

  • @felphero
    @felphero Місяць тому

    This is one of the weirdest movie's I ever seen

  • @gheatza
    @gheatza 2 місяці тому

    hello 🙂 I've just discovered your videos and wanted to express my gratitude for the effort you put into making them. as someone who's not very familiar with symbolysm in visual imagery your breakdowns have been incredibly insightful and appreciated. I do have a small piece of feedback, and I really hope you won't mind me saying this. I personally find the frequent pauses in the video very distracting, although I completely understand the intention behind them and the value they add to the explanation. it's just a personal preference, and I unfortunately don't have a better solution to suggest. thank you once again for your hard work and dedication. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your content :-)

  • @pragyadhingra3772
    @pragyadhingra3772 2 місяці тому

    That end to the video was ridiculously cathartic :D

  • @jeffpestano1296
    @jeffpestano1296 2 місяці тому

    I think I’ve come up with a really good analogy for licorice pizza. It’s PTA’s Zabriski Point. Antonioni thought he could make a film with out professional actors. It looks stunning but doesn’t work. I feel the same about LP.

  • @iverstim
    @iverstim 2 місяці тому

    As a novice filmmaker, I’m so glad to have found this channel. Thanks!

  • @magicknight13
    @magicknight13 2 місяці тому

    Love Blow-Up!!! I just got to rewatch it in theaters ☺️☺️

  • @jordonbailey981
    @jordonbailey981 2 місяці тому

    Spiderman No Way Home was my favorite film of 2021

  • @levistubbs8949
    @levistubbs8949 2 місяці тому

    Hemmings was terrific in the movie a la bailey !

  • @emilyfoster34
    @emilyfoster34 2 місяці тому

    why is this age restricted

  • @prodthroughthehedge
    @prodthroughthehedge 2 місяці тому

    did you ekneo he was 15 years old. sum bulshit,

  • @prodthroughthehedge
    @prodthroughthehedge 2 місяці тому

    that noise was loud calm the clum ok

  • @prodthroughthehedge
    @prodthroughthehedge 2 місяці тому

    oyu i don note agree with you. the piss pull dymanic doesn't made sense. because he is 15. he is 15 he ius 15. year old

  • @funwalkthroughs1285
    @funwalkthroughs1285 2 місяці тому

    Learning about this movie in my humanities class and 7 yrs later this video was so useful!

  • @Arashkaman128
    @Arashkaman128 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @frankpinmtl
    @frankpinmtl 2 місяці тому

    Greedy sociopath; He wants peace, closure and a relationship with Peggy, chasing her at work - yet at the end he cannot seem to make the leap that families who's members he killed (like Hoffa) want the same thing. He can't give peace, therefore he does not get any...

  • @user-kx1rd3hz5k
    @user-kx1rd3hz5k 2 місяці тому

    The dead body is a manniquin in some reviews. When he hears the sound of the tennis ball he realises he's not a photographer in swinging London but the tramp at the beginning. A circle of imitation unreality closes in the final frame he disappears in to fiction unreality.

  • @brandonnmartinez5064
    @brandonnmartinez5064 2 місяці тому

    Honestly i wish the whole movie was about buster Scruggs I didn’t care for the other shorts as much I just wanted to see more buster and when I realized the other stories didn’t connect to him at all other than the fact the all have death in them I was highly disappointed and found myself wanting to go back to the beginning to watch buster Scruggss short !

  • @shantheknight
    @shantheknight 2 місяці тому

    Does anyone know the film at 0:58? It looks very interesting and I can't figure out what it is.

  • @squanto2
    @squanto2 2 місяці тому

    I have to say that I really didn't care for this movie at all. Whenever I think about it I have a deep feeling of...dread, I guess. The time the movie took place, late 1970s LA, was the same time I was in high school in LA county. None of that felt authentic to me whatsoever. That and so much more just left me cold. That said, I think There Will Be Blood is the greatest movie ever made.