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Brendan Hodges

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staff @NextBestPicture, also @BWDR @Ebertvoices @InRo @Letterboxd @inversedotcom @Polygon. prone to ramble about aspect ratios at parties.

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watched CATCH ME IF YOU CAN again and thought everyone should enjoy this crafty moment of Spielberg camera direction

watched CATCH ME IF YOU CAN again and thought everyone should enjoy this crafty moment of Spielberg camera direction

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Not ashamed to say I am extremely excited for the final season of STRANGER THINGS, which I still think is one of the most fully realized and best directed TV shows on air. The lows are low, but the highs feel like blockbuster magic. I can’t but love this:

Not ashamed to say I am extremely excited for the final season of STRANGER THINGS, which I still think is one of the most fully realized and best directed TV shows on air. The lows are low, but the highs feel like blockbuster magic. I can’t but love this:

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I love when Nolan remembers he's British and decides to take the piss

I love when Nolan remembers he's British and decides to take the piss

99,594 views • 7 days ago

rewatching COLUMBO episodes as one does and came across this incredible sequence that depicts the killer dispatching of the body by reflecting parallel split-screens of footage in the murderer's glasses. wild it's almost two minutes long. old TV!

rewatching COLUMBO episodes as one does and came across this incredible sequence that depicts the killer dispatching of the body by reflecting parallel split-screens of footage in the murderer's glasses. wild it's almost two minutes long. old TV!

769,984 views • 5 months ago

on Spielberg's birthday thinking about one of his hardest-ever shots

on Spielberg's birthday thinking about one of his hardest-ever shots

4,298,424 views • 2 years ago

Bondarchuk's WAR AND PEACE is trending, and as much as it gets justified attention for its insane scale, the real triumph is how it used thousands extras to stage layers of war action on a mile-wide Z-axis; every shot a living painting inside a huge canvas

Bondarchuk's WAR AND PEACE is trending, and as much as it gets justified attention for its insane scale, the real triumph is how it used thousands extras to stage layers of war action on a mile-wide Z-axis; every shot a living painting inside a huge canvas

40,373 views • 12 days ago

now that FURIOSA is out on VOD I wanted to clarify what I meant by "mini-oners," IE Spielbergian shots that effortlessly combine multiple setups but aren't full-bore tracking shots, by sharing some of the best in the movie, starting with this one:

now that FURIOSA is out on VOD I wanted to clarify what I meant by "mini-oners," IE Spielbergian shots that effortlessly combine multiple setups but aren't full-bore tracking shots, by sharing some of the best in the movie, starting with this one:

737,884 views • 2 years ago

Michelle Yeoh riding a motorcycle onto a moving train

Michelle Yeoh riding a motorcycle onto a moving train

858,302 views • 2 years ago

while we're thinking about positive examples of direction and blocking for film musicals, I give you Jacques Demy, who has a pretty incredible sense of how his frame impacts the rhythm and beauty of his dancers:

while we're thinking about positive examples of direction and blocking for film musicals, I give you Jacques Demy, who has a pretty incredible sense of how his frame impacts the rhythm and beauty of his dancers:

445,412 views • 1 year ago

Hackman is immortalized through many incredible performances probably more iconic than CRIMSON TIDE, but nobody could've brought the same shit-eating bravado to a role with such richly delivered relish. His was always big screen acting. Rest in peace to a forever legend.

Hackman is immortalized through many incredible performances probably more iconic than CRIMSON TIDE, but nobody could've brought the same shit-eating bravado to a role with such richly delivered relish. His was always big screen acting. Rest in peace to a forever legend.

329,167 views • 1 year ago

nobody hates directing more than George Lucas ❤️

nobody hates directing more than George Lucas ❤️

26,894 views • 1 month ago

this should be obvious, but Wes Anderson riffs are so much more charming when it's friends throwing a thing together for fun and not awful A.I. monstrosities. "Wes Anderson Spider-Man" (insanely made a decade ago by the guy writing the next AVENGERS) has always been my favorite.

this should be obvious, but Wes Anderson riffs are so much more charming when it's friends throwing a thing together for fun and not awful A.I. monstrosities. "Wes Anderson Spider-Man" (insanely made a decade ago by the guy writing the next AVENGERS) has always been my favorite.

157,725 views • 3 years ago

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