One of YouTube’s best video essay channels is back after a seven-year hiatus, and this time, it’s analyzing the work of its own creators. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos have revived Every Frame A Painting to support their new short film The Second.
Beginning in 2014, Zhou and Ramos turned Every Frame A Painting into one of YouTube’s premier film hubs by producing some of the best video essays on the platform. The duo’s work, which attracted more than two million subscribers to their channel, left no stone unturned. Every Frame A Painting essays discussed everything from elemental filmmaking techniques to innovative auteurs while considering the work of editors, sound mixers, lead actors, and everyone else on set.
Those videos kept coming until 2017, when Zhou and Ramos put their channel on hiatus — until now. They recently updated the Every Frame A Painting channel description to announce a...
Beginning in 2014, Zhou and Ramos turned Every Frame A Painting into one of YouTube’s premier film hubs by producing some of the best video essays on the platform. The duo’s work, which attracted more than two million subscribers to their channel, left no stone unturned. Every Frame A Painting essays discussed everything from elemental filmmaking techniques to innovative auteurs while considering the work of editors, sound mixers, lead actors, and everyone else on set.
Those videos kept coming until 2017, when Zhou and Ramos put their channel on hiatus — until now. They recently updated the Every Frame A Painting channel description to announce a...
- 8/28/2024
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
It feels like we’ve all lived through multiple ages of YouTube — not to mention multiple ages of the world — since the last update on the channel “Every Frame a Painting” in September 2016. Video essayists Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou spent the better part of three years looking at specific aspects of filmmaking, from auteur preferences and fascinations to modes of action and comedy to stylistic trends; frankly, if you’ve read more than one piece on IndieWire, you need to watch more than one “Every Frame a Painting” video. Probably all of them.
It is possible to complete the set, given the channel’s long hiatus — due mostly to the trickiness of navigating the currents of copyright law and what’s legal to put on YouTube videos regarding film and television clips. Ramos and Zhou took their curious, compassionate film analysis to a much bigger canvas for the 2021 Netflix...
It is possible to complete the set, given the channel’s long hiatus — due mostly to the trickiness of navigating the currents of copyright law and what’s legal to put on YouTube videos regarding film and television clips. Ramos and Zhou took their curious, compassionate film analysis to a much bigger canvas for the 2021 Netflix...
- 8/27/2024
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Editor Tony Zhou and Illustrator Taylor Ramos are perhaps best known for their YouTube channel Every Frame A Painting, their video essay side-hustle away from their day jobs in the TV animation industry. Early pioneers in this space nearly a decade ago, there now many (many) channels dedicated to explaining individual films, or the process of filmmaking (or both) at length in this format; it is a sizeable niche. During the pandemic, Netflix and David Fincher gave them a limited run series, Voir, where they were the show runners, further carrying the Video Essay torch into the mainstream. (Personal aside: the Walter Chaw episode on Walter Hill’s 48 hours is the gem of that series.) With their new film The Second, a narrative...
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- 7/21/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Cameras have started rolling in Tokyo on Akashi, the debut feature from Japanese and Canadian writer-director Mayumi Yoshida.
Yoshida, best known as an actor for her role in The Man in The High Castle, will also star in the film alongside veteran performers Hana Kino, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai, and rising performer Ryo Tajima.
Described as a “coming-of-age love story,” Akashi follows Kana (Yoshida), an artist who is at a crossroads in her career. After finding out her Grandmother (Kino) has passed, she returns home to Tokyo for the funeral, where she rekindles a romance with childhood love Hiro (Tajima) and uncovers a family secret about her Grandpa (Murai).
Akashi is written and directed by Yoshida, who developed the script through the TIFF Writer’s Studio. The pic produced by Nach Dudsdeemaytha,...
Yoshida, best known as an actor for her role in The Man in The High Castle, will also star in the film alongside veteran performers Hana Kino, Chieko Matsubara, Kunio Murai, and rising performer Ryo Tajima.
Described as a “coming-of-age love story,” Akashi follows Kana (Yoshida), an artist who is at a crossroads in her career. After finding out her Grandmother (Kino) has passed, she returns home to Tokyo for the funeral, where she rekindles a romance with childhood love Hiro (Tajima) and uncovers a family secret about her Grandpa (Murai).
Akashi is written and directed by Yoshida, who developed the script through the TIFF Writer’s Studio. The pic produced by Nach Dudsdeemaytha,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Zac Ntim and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Fassbender is back. And his first film since 2019’s “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” is “The Killer,” a globetrotting David Fincher thriller that looks like the very definition of a must-see film. You can watch the trailer above.
Based on the French graphic novel of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent (a.k.a. Matz) and illustrator Luc Jacamon, with a screenplay by frequent Fincher collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker (“Seven”), the movie follows an assassin (Fassbender) who, after a near-fatal miss, “battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.” Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard and Sophie Charlotte star alongside Fassbender.
Not only is “The Killer” Fassbender’s first film since the last “X-Men” film in that run, but it’s also Fincher’s first feature-length project since 2020’s “Mank,” which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won...
Based on the French graphic novel of the same name by writer Alexis Nolent (a.k.a. Matz) and illustrator Luc Jacamon, with a screenplay by frequent Fincher collaborator Andrew Kevin Walker (“Seven”), the movie follows an assassin (Fassbender) who, after a near-fatal miss, “battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.” Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard and Sophie Charlotte star alongside Fassbender.
Not only is “The Killer” Fassbender’s first film since the last “X-Men” film in that run, but it’s also Fincher’s first feature-length project since 2020’s “Mank,” which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won...
- 8/29/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
David Fincher‘s projects with Netflix over the years are manifold. He’s directed episodes of “Mindhunter” and “House Of Cards,” produced “Voir,” a collection of short video essays, and released his 2020 film, “Mank,” on the platform. And while audiences await his latest film, “The Killer,” with Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton, Netflix has another volume of his animation series with Tim Miller to tide everyone over.
Continue reading ‘Love, Death + Robots Volume 3’ Final Trailer: Tim Miller & David Fincher’s Animated Anthology Returns With Another Batch Of Sci-Fi Shorts Today at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Love, Death + Robots Volume 3’ Final Trailer: Tim Miller & David Fincher’s Animated Anthology Returns With Another Batch Of Sci-Fi Shorts Today at The Playlist.
- 5/20/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
"This is the path to my One Perfect Shot." Here we go! Our friends at Film School Rejects have been quietly developing this project for the past few years and it's time to finally shine! One Perfect Shot is a cinema series on HBO Max inspired by the Twitter account exploring some iconic moments in movie history. One Perfect Shot features the careers of 6 visionary filmmakers recounting how they've created some of the industry's most iconic shots. This is the second cinema series recently along with Netflix's Voir, also created by a movie blogger, discussing the magic of movies. Hosted by Ava DuVernay and featuring Jon M. Chu (examining Crazy Rich Asians), Kasi Lemmons (examining Harriet), Patty Jenkins (examining Wonder Woman), Malcolm D. Lee (examining Girls Trip), Michael Mann (examining Heat), and Aaron Sorkin (examining The Trial of the Chicago 7). A bit of a strange choice of films,...
- 3/15/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWerner Herzog is set to publish his first novel, a semi-fictional retelling of the story of Hiroo Onda. A friend of Herzog, Onda is a former Japanese soldier known for spending 29 years in the jungle on an island in the Philippines, refusing to surrender at the end of World War II. Penguin Random House states that the novel is written in "an inimitable, hypnotic style—part documentary, part poem, and part dream." Following his erotic nunsploitation film Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven is making the erotic political thriller Young Sinner. The film, according to Verhoeven and RoboCop co-writer Edward Neumeier, will take place in Washington DC and focus on a young staffer "drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger." As this is a Verhoeven film, Neumeir promises that there will be "also be a little sex.
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
David Fincher and David Prior’s anthology essay series “Voir” is only six episodes, but fully half of those came from Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou. Their skill with the form comes as no surprise to fans of their YouTube channel “Every Frame a Painting,” which almost served as a proof of concept for a show like “Voir” — and that millions of people would be interested in videos exploring just how the grammar of filmmaking impacts its meaning. When done well, video essays combine the thrill of knowing a secret and the joy of learning more about a long-held passion. Zhou and Ramos spoke to IndieWire about how the process of creating that joyful learning shifted and expanded when working on “Voir.”
“YouTube was very constricting because of things like copyright and Dmc,” Ramos said. “The license that Netflix and [David Fincher] gave us, it was very, ‘Oh, we can do anything and everything!
“YouTube was very constricting because of things like copyright and Dmc,” Ramos said. “The license that Netflix and [David Fincher] gave us, it was very, ‘Oh, we can do anything and everything!
- 12/7/2021
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Netflix’s new short-form experiment “Voir” (French for “See”) aims to distill our relationship to cinema by examining what it stirs inside us based on how and what artists put in front of us, what they conceal, and who they choose to point the camera at. This series of short film essays pairs images with the anecdotes and personal observations of individuals who write about the medium in some way.
Continue reading ‘Voir’ TV Review: Mixed Bag Of Film Essays Blends Anecdote With Analysis at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Voir’ TV Review: Mixed Bag Of Film Essays Blends Anecdote With Analysis at The Playlist.
- 12/7/2021
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Playlist
One of Netflix’s most popular shows that I would never consider reviewing — because what would possibly be the point? — is The Movies That Made Us. As befits its status as a spin-off from The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us is fueled by populist nostalgia instead of cinematic rigor, intended to make you happy about things you (and everybody else) already loved rather than force any examination or introspection about the medium.
Occupying the vast middle ground between The Movies That Made Us and an ultra-meticulous or ultra-intellectual cinematic essay like Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself or ...
Occupying the vast middle ground between The Movies That Made Us and an ultra-meticulous or ultra-intellectual cinematic essay like Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself or ...
- 12/5/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
1. “The Witcher” Season 2 (available December 17)
Why Should I Watch? It’s been two years since Henry Cavill cast his spell on the world, and the titular Witcher’s long-awaited return to Netflix is finally upon us. I’m going to be honest: I do not remember much about this show. Twenty-four months — especially these past 24 months — is a long time, and I have yet to find the precious eight hours required for my rewatch. But I think that’s Ok? What made “The Witcher” work so well was a beguiling combination of palpable enthusiasm and prioritizing spectacle over sanity. Rarely did “The Witcher” slow down so viewers could process what was going on, when it could simply charge forward into stranger and stranger events. Whether you can keep up with its wild world-building or not, the first eight episodes are an experience to be had, and I don’t doubt...
Why Should I Watch? It’s been two years since Henry Cavill cast his spell on the world, and the titular Witcher’s long-awaited return to Netflix is finally upon us. I’m going to be honest: I do not remember much about this show. Twenty-four months — especially these past 24 months — is a long time, and I have yet to find the precious eight hours required for my rewatch. But I think that’s Ok? What made “The Witcher” work so well was a beguiling combination of palpable enthusiasm and prioritizing spectacle over sanity. Rarely did “The Witcher” slow down so viewers could process what was going on, when it could simply charge forward into stranger and stranger events. Whether you can keep up with its wild world-building or not, the first eight episodes are an experience to be had, and I don’t doubt...
- 12/5/2021
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Netflix will close out the year by debuting its biggest awards contenders and popular series like Season 2 of “The Witcher” and Season 2 of “Emily in Paris.”
But the headline releases are on the film side. December 1 brings the streaming premiere of “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s Best Picture favorite starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. On December 10, Netflix drops “The Unforgivable,” a new drama with former Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock. On December 24, it’s Adam McKay’s star-studded Best Picture hopeful “Don’t Look Up,” with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, and Mark Rylance. The streamer closes out 2021 with “The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut with Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.
Ahead, everything coming to Netflix in December 2021.
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But the headline releases are on the film side. December 1 brings the streaming premiere of “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s Best Picture favorite starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. On December 10, Netflix drops “The Unforgivable,” a new drama with former Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock. On December 24, it’s Adam McKay’s star-studded Best Picture hopeful “Don’t Look Up,” with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Ariana Grande, and Mark Rylance. The streamer closes out 2021 with “The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut with Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.
Ahead, everything coming to Netflix in December 2021.
Coming Soon
Decoupled
Dec. 1
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean...
- 11/28/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Netflix has debuted a new trailer for Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem — it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care.
New Poster! Look!
Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry).
With only...
Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem — it’s on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care.
New Poster! Look!
Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry).
With only...
- 11/16/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From executive producers David Fincher and David Prior, Voir is a series of visual essays celebrating Cinema and the personal connection we each have to the stories we see on the big screen. From intimate personal histories to insights on character and craft, each episode reminds us why Cinema holds a special place in our lives.
As told by Walter Chaw, Drew McWeeny, Taylor Ramos, Sasha Stone & Tony Zhou, check out this preview below.
In June of 1975, the blockbuster was born when director Steven Spielberg’s Jaws hits theaters to an unsuspecting movie going public. The summer blockbuster spawned a series of movies and literally made people afraid to go into the water. Bruce the Shark, as he is known to the die-hard fans, and the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 Jaws shark, now lives at the Academy Museum. Based on the 1974 Peter Benchley novel, Jaws was an immediate critical and commercial success,...
As told by Walter Chaw, Drew McWeeny, Taylor Ramos, Sasha Stone & Tony Zhou, check out this preview below.
In June of 1975, the blockbuster was born when director Steven Spielberg’s Jaws hits theaters to an unsuspecting movie going public. The summer blockbuster spawned a series of movies and literally made people afraid to go into the water. Bruce the Shark, as he is known to the die-hard fans, and the sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 Jaws shark, now lives at the Academy Museum. Based on the 1974 Peter Benchley novel, Jaws was an immediate critical and commercial success,...
- 11/15/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Netflix has debuted the trailer for David Fincher and David Prior’s new visual essay series ‘Voir’.
The docuseries is a series of visual essays celebrating Cinema and the personal connection we each have to the stories we see on the big screen. From intimate personal histories to insights on character and craft, each episode reminds us why Cinema holds a special place in our lives. Film lovers examine the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them.
Also in trailers – Trailer rides in for documentary ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas’
The series is set to debut on Netflix on December 6th.
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The docuseries is a series of visual essays celebrating Cinema and the personal connection we each have to the stories we see on the big screen. From intimate personal histories to insights on character and craft, each episode reminds us why Cinema holds a special place in our lives. Film lovers examine the cinematic moments that thrilled, perplexed, challenged and forever changed them.
Also in trailers – Trailer rides in for documentary ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas’
The series is set to debut on Netflix on December 6th.
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- 11/12/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I can remember the exact moment I fell in love with movies..." Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for a video essays series titled Voir, a "collection of visual essays for the love of cinema." This project has been in development for years as a secret creation by David Fincher and Awards Daily's Sasha Stone that focuses on why we love films. "From executive producers David Fincher & David Prior, Voir is a series of visual essays celebrating Cinema and the personal connection we each have to the stories we see on the big screen. From intimate personal histories to insights on character and craft, each episode reminds us why Cinema holds a special place in our lives." There will be six episodes in total, but no info as to which films are covered (yet). As Told By: Walter Chaw, Drew McWeeny, Taylor Ramos, Sasha Stone & Tony Zhou. I'm excited to see this!
- 11/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Starz announced that the next drama in the “Power” franchise, “Power Book IV: Force,” will premiere Feb. 6, 2022.
The show stars Joseph Sikora, reprising his “Power” role of Tommy Egan as he leaves New York after losing Ghost (Omari Hardwick). He sets out to close an old wound he has been haunted by for decades, but he ends up caught in a labyrinth of family secrets and lies and finds himself in Chicago’s drug game — between the city’s two biggest crews. Over the course of the first season, Tommy will use his outsider status to his advantage, breaking and rewriting local rules on a quest to become the biggest drug dealer in Chicago.
Isaac Keys, Lili Simmons, Gabrielle Ryan, Shane Harper, Kris D. Lofton, Anthony Fleming III, Lucien Cambric and Tommy Flanagan also star in the series from Courtney A. Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Kemp executive produces the...
The show stars Joseph Sikora, reprising his “Power” role of Tommy Egan as he leaves New York after losing Ghost (Omari Hardwick). He sets out to close an old wound he has been haunted by for decades, but he ends up caught in a labyrinth of family secrets and lies and finds himself in Chicago’s drug game — between the city’s two biggest crews. Over the course of the first season, Tommy will use his outsider status to his advantage, breaking and rewriting local rules on a quest to become the biggest drug dealer in Chicago.
Isaac Keys, Lili Simmons, Gabrielle Ryan, Shane Harper, Kris D. Lofton, Anthony Fleming III, Lucien Cambric and Tommy Flanagan also star in the series from Courtney A. Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Kemp executive produces the...
- 11/11/2021
- by Katie Song and Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix and David Fincher have a love affair that has now lasted for nearly a decade now. And over that time, Fincher has produced a number of series, ranging from dramas such as “House of Cards” and “Mindhunter” to the animated anthology series, “Love, Death + Robots.” For his next series on the streaming service, Fincher is tackling the world of film studies with a visual essay series titled “Voir.”
Read More: Director David Prior Talks ‘The Empty Man,’ ‘Voir’ & Netflix Becoming “Custodians To The Cinematic Experience” [Interview]
As seen in the trailer for “Voir,” the new six-episode series aims to break down the reason why people love cinema through various legendary films and iconic moments in the medium.
Continue reading ‘Voir’ Trailer: David Fincher’s Latest Netflix Collaboration Is A Visual Essay Series About Cinema at The Playlist.
Read More: Director David Prior Talks ‘The Empty Man,’ ‘Voir’ & Netflix Becoming “Custodians To The Cinematic Experience” [Interview]
As seen in the trailer for “Voir,” the new six-episode series aims to break down the reason why people love cinema through various legendary films and iconic moments in the medium.
Continue reading ‘Voir’ Trailer: David Fincher’s Latest Netflix Collaboration Is A Visual Essay Series About Cinema at The Playlist.
- 11/11/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: M. Night Shyamalan on the set of Old (2021). Berlinale has announced that the one and only M. Night Shyamalan will serve as the Jury President for the festival's 2022 edition. In a statement, Shyamalan said: "I have always felt like an independent filmmaker within the system of Hollywood. It is exactly those things in us that are different and unorthodox that define our voice. I have tried to maintain these things in myself and cheer others on to protect those aspects in their art and in themselves. Being asked to be a part of Berlinale is deeply meaningful to me. It represents the highest imprimatur for a filmmaker. Being able to support and celebrate the world’s very best talent in storytelling is a gift I happily accepted.”David Fincher is partnering with Netflix...
- 10/20/2021
- MUBI
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