What Would Billy Wilder Do?

[@markfortin3502]

the comparison of the two versions of Sabrina is so simply educational. Wilder's blocking and emphasis on script is so great

[@cartercrisco2524]

I was verbally disappointed when Pollack’s decided to cut for no reason. It just feels like a betrayal to shoot scenes with that amount of coverage and not in those masters to keep things interesting and concise.

[@okuno54]

I feel like the editor dropped the ball on the remake, too: the lines don't feel like they were spoken in the same room. Meanwhile, the actors felt out the pacing perfectly in the original!

[@gilad1908]

You got me in blocking

[@markfortin3502]

@@gilad1908 i was referring to the kitchen staff scene in Sabrina, with each employee standing or seated in a manner to be realistically working and seen by the camera with out camera movement.

[@magnusalexander2965]

This video does further comparisons between the two, and is very good: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKGmXouopbFmb9k

[@exbundespraesident6078]

new Every Frame a Painting uploads are the single best thing that happened to me in 2024

[@ZoniacMan]

wow, thats a bit sad.

[@KaawSauce]

It’s pretty great

[@srikkanth-tech]

I feel the same. :)

[@BurningPandama]

Billy Wilder is such a legend. On his tombstone it says: "I'm a writer, but then again nobody is perfect" (Personal Favorite is "Witness for the Prosecution")

[@MariaVosa]

Every Frame A Painting video! On Billy Wilder!! Never clicked so fast in my life!!! Only complaint is it was 10 minutes rather than 100. That Sabrina comparison was brutal, and should be taught in every film school.

[@d.rabbitwhite]

Yes. I have reviewed 3 times in a row already. This is one of the best channels, always has been.

[@tatehildyard5332]

The sad thing is I’ve worked on a lot of student sets (grad and undergrad) and quite a few of them approached coverage this way. 10 setups for 2 page, 3 person dinner scene. Some schools actually encourage this because it prepares them more for working in television and corporate environments.

[@MariaVosa]

@@tatehildyard5332 That's depressing - and telling

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@tatehildyard5332 yep, sigh :( adverts and other corporate media LOVE having 10x the necessary coverage so they can do a rejigged version of whatever campaign a month or two later

[@eetuhalonen9902]

Sad thing about that Sabrina remake is that the director was Sydney Pollack who has done some great movies. I guess he just didn´t care and did it for money.

[@2packreturn]

Finally THE original (and best) video essay channel is back.

[@jerban8879]

I think the OG title would go to Lindsay Ellis and RLM but as for best…EFAP definitely on Mount Rushmore

[@kelechi_77]

@@jerban8879 Ellis first video is from 2015. Every Frame a Painting had been uploading since 2014. And RLM was making reviews, even though you could kind of see the overlap into video essays here and there but then you'd have to be calling Angry Video Game Nerd an early video essayist. Anyway, EFAP was definitely the first channel to give birth to the modern video essay. These videos still hold up so well after ten years. Which can't be said for a lot of content from back then.

[@SceneComparisons]

​@@kelechi_77RLM is definitely the first

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@kelechi_77 it depends what you mean by essay vs other education I suppose. Channels like Art of The Problem had 30-60 minute videos with similar narration and pacing about computer science and mathematics in 2012. (I thought maybe Rocketjump Film School was around the same time, but that was 2015 so comes after this channel.)

[@kelechi_77]

@@kaitlyn__L It's an interesting topic all round, been waiting for years for someone to make a video essay on the first video essay, think it'd be interesting to explore the forerunners.

[@reedarnold7905]

"I don't like fancy schmancy shots" **beautifully choreographed camera move, door close, framing of background through hole in door** Bless him.

[@kikomaga1]

Great video! Fun fact: Billy Wilder asked Saul Bass to design a sign for his office wall that read “How would Lubitsch do it?”, it was kind of a mantra for him

[@joemadden4160]

At Lubitsch's funeral, according to legend, one of the mourners stated: "Well, no more Lubitsch" to which another mourner stated "Worse. No more Lubitsch movies."

[@trithedor55]

Which is also the name of a very good podcast by Devan Scott about the work of Lubitsch!

[@jordale1]

Love the return of this channel ❤

[@PeterMoore66]

That kitchen scene in Sabrina is just perfect framing. And when there is the single character movement and the camera pushes in, we can still see all the characters. Genius.

[@sebastianmaydana7380]

Dear Tony, with your old videos I learned a lot about making movies, but I also learned that I loved learning about it! Now I am a professional film critic, and I'm still learning from you! Thank you man, your videos mean a lot to me.

[@bonjourchouquette]

The only channel on YT worth turning the bell notification on.

[@ElSelcho77]

Absolutely. Been waiting 8 years for that ring.

[@bnee4313]

and also signing up as paid member.

[@fabrizioroscini]

You have no idea how happy I am that you're back!

[@guybrushmonkey97]

The Apartment instantly became one of my favorite movies ever, so so good

[@Xanderall]

This channel made me appreciate Edgar Wright’s comedy like never before, and I am extremely grateful for it

[@M1GTYM0U53]

As a teacher who has been using EFAP videos in my classes since they came out, I can't tell you how excited I am that y'all are back! Thank you so much for your work 🙏

[@SiMeGamer]

Just want to note that EFAP is also a podcast that mainly discusses film, tv series and video essays. Except instead of Every Frame a Painting it means Every Frame a Pause because they are extreme pedants and often take hours to discuss fairly short media. I don't think you meant them but just want you to know that a misunderstanding can occur since it's in a similar sphere.

[@thomasjoyce7910]

@@SiMeGamer For a second, I honestly thought that this teacher was showing clips of Mauler and company to schoolkids. LMAO!

[@EchoFiend]

One of the best directors ever. He packs so much subtlety and nuance into his ostensibly light PG comedies/romcoms. I was absolutely blown away by the examination of Post-War occupied Berlin in A Foreign Affair(1948). He avoids excessively dark cynicism and provides real joyful humour against such difficult subject matter without shying away from it. Couldn't agree more with your Sabrina comparison, the remake felt like a parody of the original. Thanks for the great video!

[@SOOKIE42069]

This channel coming back is literally the best thing to happen this year.

[@rcj2198]

The study of my favorite filmmaker by one of the best filmmaking KZbin channels... What a joyful day... 😃

[@ignacioramirez5477]

Today is my birthday. I haven't been feeling very well, but what better gift than a video of you and on top of that about this genius. Thank you very much for the gift.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Happy Birthday! I feel the same 😊

[@SenshiSunPower]

Happy birthday!

[@user-to9ge8ii9n]

Happy birthday, unknown friend! ❤

[@alejorag]

We share the same last name so let me assume we're somehow distant cousins, hope you had a great birthday cousin Ignacio! Glad you got such a great gift and we're all able to enjoy it as well.

[@CzechAvailabilitie]

It's pretty amazing that when Wilder first came to America in 1934 he didn't speak much English. He and fellow Austro-Hungarian/German émigré Peter Lorre had English night school together. Imagine going from a immigrant in a new country with little knowledge of the local language to one of the greatest screenwriters in that language in less than a decade.

[@dialecticsjunkie7653]

I get the feeling that's partly why he liked working with screenwriting collaborators. Probably a lot of the concepts and overall "construction" as he called it comes from him, but having a partner helps ground him in a more colloquial and natural American English style in the word choices and such

[@joshbenda351]

OK but Germany was a cinema powerhouse at that time... Some Like It Hot was based on an earlier German film.

[@blufudgecrispyrice8528]

@@joshbenda351 really? which one?

[@artirony410]

If I remember right, in some award speech he gave he thanked the customs agent who let him into the US in 1934

[@artirony410]

@@blufudgecrispyrice8528 its based on the screenplay of a French film from 1935 called Fanfare of Love which got remade in Germany in 1951 as Fanfares of Love

[@taylorwadehill212]

Clicked on this immediately as if my son’s life depended on it. So glad you guys are back. And Wilder is one of my heroes. Sunset Blvd. is a masterpiece.

[@RVCfilm]

As a Wilder nerd, I think one of the things that's so great about his scripts is that he follows the Chekhov's gun rule so perfectly. Everything is used. Every gun that is loaded goes off in several ways. If something needs to happen, he sets it up in act 1. They aren't just funny, but elegantly efficient.

[@gmg9010]

So glad this channel is back.

[@KarlisVR]

My favorite video essayist making an essay about my favorite writer-director. This is the best.

[@TheBabaloga]

The sketch at 1:05 (Titled "Quizzically") was written by I.A.L. Diamond, not Billy Wilder as the citation suggests.

[@everyframeapainting]

Goddammit, I had a total brain fart while making the titles. Yes, you're totally right, Diamond wrote it, Wilder staged it in honour of him after his passing. I don't know what happened, we literally had Volker Schlöndorff introducing it in an older edit. Pfft. Too tired.

[@brunopackardhill3296]

@@everyframeapainting Well, nobody's perfect.

[@rjiputraa]

​@@everyframeapaintingits okay we still love you

[@iluvtacos1231]

I love how you break things down so simply.

[@ambient-hour]

oh holy crap Every Frame a Painting is back! I didn't even clock the other new one, made my night, best analysis on youtube hands down

[@marcoscordilla8027]

8 years passed. i put "Billy Wilder" in the browser and first result: THIS. Mamma Mia amazing espectacularmente glorioso

[@davidbjacobs3598]

Billy Wilder is the true master of the form. He didn't any crazy show-off shots to tell his story. He shot the emotion, and refused to let anything obscure it.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I always loved his films I’d seen, also loved The Apartment yet somehow missed it was also him! (Probably as I was discussing the themes so much with my maw, it’s her favourite film.) Masterful scene construction every time.

[@CineRanter]

Absolutely one of my favorite filmmakers. He made masterpiece after masterpiece

[@frostbyte101]

Are you talking about Zhou or Wilder? 😄

[@politure]

yeah and Billy Wilder's not so bad either!

[@tehlime]

I am thrilled there’s new Every Frame A Painting videos!! I’m always exposed to new directors through this channel and it’s so exciting to have old-but-new-to-me films to watch! The understanding of the craft that goes into filmmaking is so elegantly on display, it’s a joy to see!

[@kbprsn8290]

WE'RE SO BACK BOYS

[@AhtoRashied]

Back where?

[@filipnr1]

Indeed

[@razputinbadoobin6245]

FUUUC

[@FrancisGo.]

Wooh! 😂

[@normaldude101]

KaptainKristian and Every Frame a Painting, it's a total trip.

[@maxcampbellmusic]

Hi Tony! You were my first KZbin subscription, so glad to see another upload. Great work as always!

[@AndreaTornese]

What surprises me the most is how your writing style hasn't changed a bit in all these years. It's like you guys have made your last video back in 2016, took a pause of a few weeks and got back on making these videos the same way as always. That is something which can be found only in those who have a clear vision of things, such as you do with cinema. Bravo, Taylor and Tony!

[@NEPATransitnTravel]

So glad this channel is back!!! One of my best professor’s I ever had introduced me to your videos during an Intro to Mass Media class over a decade ago now!!!

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Billy has so many classics it's ridiculous... one of the GOATs! I've watched Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity, The Apartment, Stalag 17 & more _dozens_ of times. And we're so glad you're back ❤ So well produced, your videos, going back years!

[@furkanaydogmus96]

After 8 years, my favourite channel is coming back. 🎉 So excited! 🤩

[@cadaver7334]

I know you're back for just a short time but please keep this channel alive even if it's just a post once a year. You really stand apart from everyone else on yt as of what it has come to be nowadays

[@rowanlivengood]

you get what you get and you dont throw a fit

[@cadaver7334]

@@rowanlivengood nah bro it's just wishful thinking, it doesn't mean I'm gonna complain whether they leave or not.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@rowanlivengood how can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat your meat!!!!!

[@highchiller]

Thank you for being back! There is nobody quite like you on KZbin or anywhere else. I was searching for alternatives when you stopped and found many other great channels discussing movies, but none look at them from the same angle quite and explain it so visually appealing like you. So really, thank you so much for being back!

[@ChristopherPomerleau]

I love Billy Wilder. Very under appreciated these days. Thanks for giving him some love.

[@Rossatron]

One of the best filmmakers of all time. Something in every film to pull from. An American Kurosawa if ever there was one.

[@jameslonogan1799]

🎶The boys are back in town! The boys are back in town!🎶

[@PlanetXerox]

speaking of which... when are we gonna ever see you do more film essays again?

[@Rossatron]

@@PlanetXerox this Wednesday!

[@Brunoenribeiro]

Hey Taylor, hey Tony... it's good to have you back

[@garywordman]

Thank you so much for doing a video on one of my all-time favorites. I love Wilder's work and loved the video. So glad you're back, keep up the great work.

[@rmharris2001]

Wonderful to have you back! I've been so in love with Wilder's (& Diamond's) stories and dialogue that I'd overlooked the perfection of his direction. Thank you. Thanks also for the shot from Fedora, which I've never forgotten from the time I saw it on it's initial run in theaters.

[@DuckiesOnQuack0]

10 years ago i started film school and the professor used this channel to teach us the language of film grammar. i showed my GF this channel two days ago and BOOM here we are. thanks for coming back man

[@PremusRed]

Loving your comeback brotha! Thank you for your hard work! You're one of my favorite creators on youtube, you're the best at conveying good art in movies. You've lent me a far deeper understanding in film over my basic uni course.

[@bigmagictent]

Thank you for coming back!! Your essays are often my favorite start to my Sunday

[@faroukkannout]

I just recently watched Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment back to back and was completely dazzled by what great films they were. Getting to watch an essay about Billy Wilder now feels like the cherry on top!

[@celestialshoegazer]

I was just thinking of this channel today, and the phrase/name of the channel, and there is a new video. I am so glad I did, this was very unexpected and very welcome. Happy to see a new upload.

[@yummypancakes7768]

This is a great companion piece to Just Write's video essay on Billy Wilder!

[@akaspookie]

Holy shit, he's back, i haven't checked on this channel in years, i am legitamately tearing up, his videos were a welcome distraction during a very dark part in my life.

[@mod7474]

i get so excited now that i know you're posting again! everytime i see your name pop up i can't wait to watch it!

[@micasti]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming back. Just, thank you.

[@OhMaiGuy]

What an unexpected return. The legend is back!

[@lanarkorras4411]

The difference between these and most, most other video essays on KZbin is that they're not just about something someone likes a lot, seasoned with some shallow bits of information. These here give an actual insight into how things work/are done, and I missed that so much.

[@michaelotis223]

I've noticed this in modern video essays of the last 7 or so years. Couldn't quite place my finger round it until you described it so aptly....

[@user-yk9gq1wd9z]

so happy you're back man! love your work

[@caseyduke6229]

DUDE! you're back! I loved your channel... I'm pumped that you're making new content

[@JoeBocciaJr.]

LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU. Welcome back! And with a Billy Wilder video none the less! The goat.

[@sspiderandbee]

I don’t think I’ve ever been so surprised or delighted to see a KZbin video upload!

[@ClickyCrisp]

Your videos always inspired me years ago and I began learning that the devil is in the details, and there's always something I feel more creatively motivated to do after watching your videos. Glad to have that again in 2024! Super unexpected to find this today but so happy about it

[@film_magician]

I honey can’t believe you’re back and posting about screenwriting now. Thank you! Keep it coming. Your team is amazing.

[@veronicab15]

I thought about unsubbing but then I kept the channel in the list for the sake of the old videos, lest I forget. I am so glad you posted again!

[@Thediegobg]

OMG! Thak God you're back! I'm so happy for this. One of my favorite channels, I keep coming back to it to study your essays! Keep up the awesome work!

[@tnutssss]

just made this monday beareable. im so happy this channel is back

[@jasondulin7376]

It is SO good to have you back.

[@topherMac]

So glad to have you y’all back. This channel is a true benefit to the film community!

[@emoney6692]

Showing everyone how it’s done. Good to see you guys back!

[@ElSelcho77]

I'm so glad you're back. Never unsubscribed in the hopes there could be more of the highest quality content out there. Well worth the wait.

[@philipwacker4629]

You are BACK!!! Best thing that happened this year! You were missed, Tony!

[@penumbra9009]

so glad you are back and celebrating Billy Wilder. Truly one of the greatest masters of the artform.

[@Brendan.Docherty]

Your essays are so great! Every time I see there's a new one I'm genuinely excited

[@Bauzi]

How did I miss new videos of this legendary channel??? This is the first time I enable the bell on KZbin!

[@ShonanMiura]

Probably been said already in the comments, but so great to hear your voice again. Thanks so much for gifting us more of these fun, informative videos.

[@Fabulist]

You’re back! And featuring my favorite director, too!

[@obizhot]

Nothing but love for Billy Wilder. Simple, yet Elegant - setups and storytelling married into some of my favorite films.

[@Mamontustel]

this is the single greatest comeback of a youtube channel

[@dolevamitai1301]

Man, these remind me why I fell in love with cinema. Sad that no one picked up the slack, and barely any new movies scratch that itch

[@MeisterDerMacht]

I rarely comment on videos. But I really want to say how glad I am, that you are back with your great content!

[@realBrianCars]

Its 12:30 am and I've never clicked on a video so fast Thanks for the solid work as per usual

[@0981462]

I'm so happy this channel is back on its full glory!

[@elvisjoseph8632]

You're back! I'm so, so glad.

[@balto8111]

A couple of truly valuable lessons in screenwriting in your essay, thank you.

[@maptongue]

Tony! What a delightful surprise to have you back!

[@JoshuaYoung2]

Thank you for coming back!!!! I'm a x35 award winning screenwriter and I'm still learning tons from every video you make!

[@antoniomagana2170]

Glad to see you making these again, Tony.

[@VultureClone]

I was not expecting to ever see an, 'Every frame a painting' video ever again. Delightfully pleased!

[@MrMolinaCr]

Your scripting and editing skills returned on another level.

[@LPJipple]

perfect as always, so glad you're back

[@KaawSauce]

IDK why you’re back or why you left, but what a treat to see your content again!! Some of the best stuff.

[@Nytchade]

Great to have you back! Thank you so much for your insights, truly beautiful content. You've been my favourite video essayist (If you'll excuse the term) since I first discovered you.

[@joshsweet7512]

Man, what a fabulous breakdown, articulating things I've sort of known but never known how to say, perfectly. (Also, man "Ace in the Hole" is criminally underrated) Welcome back you beautiful bastards

[@phlogistanjones2722]

Thank you again for another wonderful opportunity to learn and be entertained. It's always a good day when you're around. Peaceful Skies

[@prylfarsan]

Thank you for finding the time to start creating content again. Love the channel!

[@Hegder]

Concise, beautiful and about one of my favourites. Thank you.

[@diplomatt22]

Love Billy Wilder, thanks for putting him on your channel.

Awesome video, many thanks for the hard work!

[@surrog]

What's really amazing is that, even after all these year, Wilder's movies still holds up very well compared to modern style cinema: its masterful sense of pace and perfect casting feel forever imprinted on film.

[@Siosal01]

Brilliant video for a brilliant man. Thanks Tony. We've missed you.

[@JoshJackson]

I've ingested so many video essays since this channel took a break. Not one of them held my attention like these do. They're not trying to hit a certain length to get the most YT revenue, they're just damn well-written and well-edited. I'm going to go through Billy Wilder's filmography after this.

[@nightanthem]

omfg.... you're back.... you and Moviewise are the best cinematography KZbin channel... I hope everything was going well