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Each of these short videos is a golden nugget of viewer to film interaction. They enhance the experience and enjoyment of the film and the craftsmanship of the director, camera technique, and style. Can't provide enough praise and appreciation for Tony Zhou effort in creating these. If you really want to know how great these are look at his patroon followers he has for this series. There hasn't been a knew one in a while and we are all looking forward to his next posting.

Tony Zhou gives you perspective of how filmmaking can be done. It's not about how good the story is, it's about how much better it can be if you're a good teller.

You can find the series on youtube channel Every Frame a Painting. Episodes unfortunately very short (3-7 minutes), but every minute is a week of work. I remember waiting for each episode and after few of them, watching movies was never the same. It's changed my perspective and suddenly movies have start hitting me differently.

If you're like me who really loves movies I would strongly recommend to watch it.

Ps Tony made Bong Joon Ho number one director in my list long before Parasite won Oscar.

So I am a fan of Every Frame A Painting, and have enjoyed most of his short and sweet video essays.

Also I looked at the amount of rating this had on IMDb, and saw the majority of ratings were 1/10. And the only review of this is a 1/10 with 200 users saying this was helpful. So I think someone has just been creating loads of IMDb accounts and just all rated this 1/10 or people just kept spamming 1/10 ratings. If that is what happened, I feel thats pretty ridiculous and I don't really see what you're trying to get out of it. But anyways, just strange the amount of 1/10 ratings this has.

One of my favorite web series out there. Recommend it to all fans of film and movie-making. The episodes are well put together and while they might not all be of interest to me I will state that they are all worth watching. There is always some bit of insight to be gained.

As an amateur filmmaker I have found useful ideas within these episodes and the series has done a good job of helping me take a more critical look at films I enjoy. It has made me take a more critical eye on how I write scenes, stage, cast, and film them. It also has introduced me to artists, directors, and films I was not aware of. If you are a fan of film then this series is worth checking out.

Every pseudointellectual analysis is based on antiquated rules of understanding cinema. He lauds the filmmakers who have already been lauded. He trashes hand-held because just about everyone else does. He preaches the same lessons Fincher preaches because Fincher is so popular among the film school hipsters. Everything is just the same dogma from "filmmaking teachers," diminishing the efforts of anyone who disagrees.

So many rules, ratios, and techniques of technical composition to give the appearance of expertise, but no grasp of what filmmaking is beyond emotionless practices of narrative function.

It takes no courage whatsoever to praise films that are already glorified as great...and it really speaks to one's cowardice when they crap on films that have already been thoroughly denigrated.