I don't know how I've reached the age of 57 without seeing Ninotchka, but I must see it before I'm 58!

What we need are more movies to persuade us there could actually be a world out there, one already worth living in.

This video was VERY well directed.

That movie The Peasants looks like Enya's Caribbean Blue, if it had been a drama.

"If you write a film about a pretentious, twentysomething playwright, featuring scenes of rehearsals for his obnoxious new play, this is exactly what it would look like." Moviewise, that already happened: Bullets Over Broadway (1994), and it looked much better than Maestro.

Very well done!

Wisecracking, violent, seductive James Bond was the character that changed masculinity in films during the 1960s.

The glossary section @11:09 is helpful; so much idiom has changed. I’ve seen “Young Frankenstein” reviewers note the “Chattanooga Choo-choo” parody without knowing it was such.

Suddenly I remember the birds in _Rango._

This film is mesmerizing and not the worst anything. If you ask me, it's only criticised recently because the Sight and Sound mag suddenly finding it the best film ever seemed a bit disingenuous on their part. The reason they voted it such had little to do with the film itself. A shame really.

It's ironic that Derek Jacobi is the greatest Shakespearian, given that he leads the Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare conspiracy troll. To his credit, it doesn't impair his performance in the least.

The golden years. In modern times, this generation of progressive and wokeness will vomit hearing this kind of dialogue Sad.

I've seen so many people say "This director has gone down hill because his recent movies are bad", when the director is the same as ever, the movies just had terrible writing (which is becoming all too common lately). Thanks for sharing that commentary from The Third Man, it describes the topic perfectly.

The narrator's smack offers no critical insight.

Great video essay! One of the most brilliant and memorable bits of cinematography / directing / editing / script / storyboard moments for me is not a single shot but a transition between two shots: In "2001: A Space Odyssey", a slow motion shot of a bone levered into the air by being struck with another bone transitions into a shot of a bone-shaped spaceship seamlessly continuing the motion of the bone from the first shot. For more masterly moments of beautiful and meaningful cinematography check out the video essay "The best cinematography I've ever seen" by @ThomasFlight here on KZbin.

a great screenplay w/ a bad director will often result in something of value to the audience, but a bad script in the hands of a great director will not -billy wilder

I agree mostly with your argument - but man I need to disagree on the Woody Allen example. You used so many clips of more elaborate blocking and staging, but still I believe the decision to remain stationary towers above them all. It does not detract from the writing, while the others do, I feel like you've missed this. Even further, you yourself said it added to the moment 20:37 while I don't think the other examples do at all. Still loved the video, but I just wanted to say, feel like there are better examples of good writing does not mean good directing in Woody Allen films

I'm still working my way through the Top 100 chosen by critic Barry Norman, the doyen of BBC film reviews. Lots of gangster flicks.

I'm beginning to think A History of Violence (2005) must owe a great debt to Unforgiven (1992).

You make the critical drinker look like a wannabe ben shapiro.

I watched Ninotchka when I was really young and I loved it. Now I know why

Omg I just watched this for the first time and lived it absolutely loved it. Thanks for this video!!!!

I agree with most of your criticism of Sarris. But a director that consistently makes terrible films IS objectively a terrible director and a director that consistently makes great films is a great director. It is a spectrum, with those two being the extreme. But notice I say "terrible" and "great". Great directors are the ones that elevate the film. But a director is also responsible, not just for elevating the shot, but for choosing the screenplay they will direct. If a director has all the artistic vision in the world but consistently chooses bad screenplays to shoot, then he is not a great director and is objectively not good. He is just as mediocre as the director with no artistic vision who consistently chooses good screenplays that practically shoot themselves. He is not good, but he is not bad. A truly bad director can mess up anything. A director must also know when to art and when to just shoot. Many directors are so into art that the story loses meaning. So the art of the shot does not make a good director either. A director is also a composer of all the departments putting the movie together. If he can't get departments to make his vision, then he has not done everything he can to help them do so or chose the wrong department heads.

3:11 - Actuallyyy ... The storyboards provide shot direction and it isn't always (rarely, in fact) the director involved with that. However, the director does choose to create a new shot on the fly and let the editor select between them or tell the editor to use that shot. The director does, however, often choose distance, movement and camera position. Also, you seem to be confusing cinematography, lighting and staging departments for direction in some cases.

This was excellent 👌

11:20 I’m changing career! My many years of experience writing for B2B have prepared me well to write reams of nonsense🤩 Only instead of listening to corporate briefings, I’ll just watch movies instead 👍 Thanks Moviewise, you succeeded where many career councilors had failed.

Finally please give writers credit!

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Very good Explanation 🗻❕

This video is a Griffith tree, I like it

You make learning fun, thank you.

"Fewer but better Russians"

I love this film; apart from all its other virtues, it's one of the few films ("Laura" is another) that is superior to the book on which it is based.

"how they know if this mf is a good director? were they on set?" This video answers this old curiosity of mine. Thanks

It's a good point about the law of diminishing returns with regard to Munny repeating the lie that he's changed. But the brilliant thing about the movie, and Clint's acting, is you get the feeling that Munny wants to believe it about himself. He doesn't want to have ever been that person, but he's not a good man, either. In fact, he's probably a sociopath.

I had to subscribe after the bit about the alternate universe. Brilliant.

Another movie with perfect dialog is Howard Hawk's "His Girl Friday". Billy Wilder is one of the greats.

3:58 correction*, 12 Angry Men's AR is 1.85.

Props to YOU! This movie is PURE GENIUS and completely OUTSHINES its entertaining but tepid 1987 REMAKE called NO WAY OUT. And when I say "outshines" -- I mean on EVERY LEVEL. I show this film to everyone who will LET me 😂 There are MANY wonderful imprints of it on blu ray now, but I accidentally discovered it on cable as far back as 1985 🥰 DAMN! What a freaking movie!!! 🎬🤩👍

ELAMIDAMN!

god you are good for a German... another great video, thank you

Sesame street done their own version back in the day "Me Claudius" staring Cookie monster 😂

Billy Wilder was one of the best. Well done.

I think this is caused by the fact a lot of directors also have either writing or producing credits as well

This is one of the best films! Yes it’s simple in set and design but in truth it doesn’t need to be any more complex. Unlike modern films you don’t need effects or wide shots to make a good story you just need a good story in itself and good acting. In truth it’s also not just a warning but a lesson of identifying and seeing through evil that appears good and often finding strength and good in the simplest of things such as the old woman that looked after them. And how she was far closer to God and the righteous way of thinking than anyone who could have a honeyed tongue.

“There should be things in the film that look…like MAGIC.”

Bro i kinda agree with Sarris' point about the trees.

euripideez nuts