Are you interested in what distinguishes a great movie from a mediocre one? Movies are so much more than plot or dialogue – they are magical compositions incorporating geometry, sound and color.
This series by Tony Zhou, called “Every Frame a Painting” illuminates many of the compositional factors that distinguish great movie making from the forgettable (“photographs of people talking”, as Hitchcock frames it).
Well worth subscribing to, if you are interested in the art of film.
Some teasers:
This illustrates some of the reasons that I consider Drive to be very close to a ‘perfect’ movie.
Here are two more shorts illustrating elements that distinguish great directors like Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa from lesser ones.
This one one features a movie I watched for the second time this past week (It’s streaming on Netflix), Snowpiercer.
To appreciate movies as paintings in light, sound, color and time is to open one’s eyes to the magic of the frame, which is the true magic of film.
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