Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle . It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drumming student ( Miles Teller ) and an abusive instructor ( J. K. Simmons ). Not My Tempo - Scene: https://youtu.be/xDAsABdkWSc Whiplash premiered in competition in the US Dramatic Category at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014, as the festival's opening film. Sony Pictures Worldwide acquired the international distribution rights. The film open...
Mar 12, 2019•53 min
Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercury , lead singer of the British rock band Queen . Galileo Scene: https://youtu.be/cPYhj2xTCGc Promo Version of the Galileo Scene: https://www.provideocoalition.com/art-of-the-cut-with-bohemian-rhapsody-editor-john-ottman/ Dennis' Recut of the Manager Scene: https://twitter.com/dennisleytonb/status/1100442475032907777 Let's talk about it. The film follows the singer's life from when he joins the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid p...
Mar 05, 2019•34 min
Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 biographical film about Freddie Mercury , lead singer of the British rock band Queen . This scene, when Queen first meets with their band manager-to-be John Reid, stirred a lot of criticism on the interwebs about how bad the editing of this film is: https://youtu.be/bmIzcIDdum0 Let's talk about it. The film follows the singer's life from when he joins the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the former Wembley Stadium in London . A British-American ventu...
Feb 26, 2019•47 min
They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson . The film was created using original footage of World War I from the Imperial War Museum 's archives, most of it previously unseen, alongside audio from BBC and IWM interviews of British servicemen who fought in the conflict. Most of the footage has been colourised and transformed with modern production techniques, with the addition of sound effects and voice acting to be more evocative and feel closer to ...
Feb 19, 2019•42 min
Mulholland Drive is a 2001 neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Naomi Watts , Laura Harring , Justin Theroux , Ann Miller , and Robert Forster . It tells the story of an aspiring actress named Betty Elms, newly arrived in Los Angeles , who meets and befriends an amnesiac woman recovering from a car accident. The story follows several other vignettes and characters, including a Hollywood film director. Scene: Betty's Audition ( https://youtu.be/fKM8zdG1a9Q ) Orig...
Feb 12, 2019•44 min
Fyre Festival was a failed "luxury music festival". As a result, the organizers are the subject of at least eight lawsuits, several seeking class action status, and one seeking more than $100 million in damages. The event was promoted on Instagram by "social media influencers" including socialite and model Kendall Jenner , model Bella Hadid , model and actress Emily Ratajkowski , and other media personalities, many of whom did not initially disclose they had been paid to do so. [1] During the Fy...
Feb 05, 2019•41 min
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a 2018 psychological thriller interactive film in the science fiction anthology series Black Mirror . Bandersnatch Fight Scene (https://youtu.be/BYY-EsajFfg) In Bandersnatch , viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984. The film is based on a planned Imagine Software video game of the same name which went unreleased after the company filed for b...
Jan 29, 2019•47 min
BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott , and Lee, based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth . The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver , Laura Harrier , and Topher Grace . Set in 1970s Colorado Springs , the plot follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the loc...
Jan 21, 2019•39 min
Eighth Grade is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bo Burnham . It is his feature film directorial debut. The plot follows the life and struggles of an eighth-grader , played by Elsie Fisher , during her last week of classes before graduating to high school. She struggles with social anxiety but produces vlogs giving life advice. Eighth Grade - Opening Scene (https://youtu.be/9JEwSi_TjXI) Burnham was inspired by his own struggles with anxiety when he began writing the scre...
Jan 14, 2019•42 min
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut. It stars Daniel Kaluuya as a young black man who uncovers a disturbing secret when he meets the family of his white girlfriend. Allison Williams , Bradley Whitford , Caleb Landry Jones , Stephen Root , Lakeith Stanfield , and Catherine Keener co-star. Get Out premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, [2] and was theatrically released in the United States on February 24, 2017, ...
Jan 07, 2019•42 min
Part 2: Two Holiday Movies from different times, how has the storytelling changed? Christmas Vacation - Stapling Lights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMtBHA783c8 Daddy's Home 2 - Snowblower & Lights https://youtu.be/4FUXSHvW5QE Daddy's Home 2 - Snow Tubing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjpOwLLJQT0 Christmas Vacation - Down Hill Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSdm_eA1Css&t=1s...
Dec 31, 2018•25 min
Two Holiday Movies from different times, how has the storytelling changed? Christmas Vacation - Stapling Lights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMtBHA783c8 Daddy's Home 2 - Snowblower & Lights https://youtu.be/4FUXSHvW5QE Daddy's Home 2 - Snow Tubing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjpOwLLJQT0 Christmas Vacation - Down Hill Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSdm_eA1Css&t=1s...
Dec 24, 2018•37 min
Director George Miller released his preferred black-and-white version of 'Fury Road'. Let's listen to it. Mad Max Fury Road: Into The Storm ( https://youtu.be/V7bciy5cgRw )
Dec 17, 2018•33 min
Revenge is a 2017 French rape and revenge action horror film directed and written by Coralie Fargeat. Starring Matilda Lutz , Kevin Janssens , Vincent Colombe and Guillaume Bouchède, it follows a young woman who is assaulted and left for dead in the desert. It screened in the Midnight Madness section of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival , in the Midnight Shivers programme of the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and in the Midnight Premieres programme of the 2018 Sundance...
Dec 10, 2018•33 min
Mindhunter is an American crime drama web television series created by Joe Penhall , based on the true crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker . The series is executive produced by Penhall, David Fincher , and Charlize Theron among others, and debuted worldwide on Netflix on October 13, 2017. In November 2017, Mindhunter was renewed for a second season. Set in 1977 – in the early days of criminal psychology and criminal profili...
Dec 03, 2018•54 min
A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film directed by James Ivory , screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , and produced by Ismail Merchant , of E. M. Forster 's novel of the same name (1908). The film closely follows the novel by use of chapter titles to distinguish thematic segments. Set in England and Italy, it is about a young woman named Lucy Honeychurch in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England, and her developing love for a free-spirited young man, George ...
Nov 26, 2018•46 min
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee . The story follows a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which culminates in tragedy on a hot summer day. The film was a commercial success and received numerous accolades, including Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Aiello's portrayal of Sal the pizzeria owner. Each episode my friend Tyler and I analyze the editing of one iconic m...
Nov 19, 2018•33 min
European Vacation is a 1985 American comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by John Hughes and Robert Klane based on a story by Hughes. The second film in National Lampoon 's Vacation film series , it stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo . Dana Hill and Jason Lively replace Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall as Griswald children Audrey and Rusty. After Hall declined to reprise his role (he decided to star in Weird Science instead), the producers decided to recast both children. A...
Nov 12, 2018•31 min
City of God ( Portuguese : Cidade de Deus ) is a 2002 Brazilian crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund , released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003. The plot is loosely based on real events. It depicts the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro , between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s, with the closure of the film depicting the war between the drug dealer Li'l Zé and vigilante-turned-criminal ...
Nov 05, 2018•28 min
Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter , co-written with producer Debra Hill , and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film tells the story of serial killer Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night. The film predominately focuses on Michael who was committed to a sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister Judith Myers . Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the ...
Oct 29, 2018•29 min
I, Tonya is a 2017 American biographical film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Steven Rogers . It follows the life of figure skater Tonya Harding and her connection to the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan . The film states that it is based on "contradictory" and "true" interviews, suggesting they are unreliable narrators . Margot Robbie (who also produced) stars as Harding, and Allison Janney plays Harding's mother LaVona Golden. I, Tonya premiered at the Toronto International F...
Oct 22, 2018•27 min
In the Mood for Love is a 2000 romantic Hong Kong film written, produced, and directed by Wong Kar-wai . It tells the story of a man (played by Tony Leung ) and a woman ( Maggie Cheung ) whose spouses have an affair together and who slowly develop feelings for each other. In the Mood for Love premiered on 20 May 2000, at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival , where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or and Tony Leung was awarded Best Actor (first Hong Kong actor to win this award at Cannes). It is freque...
Oct 15, 2018•27 min
The Prince of Tides is a 1991 American romantic drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Pat Conroy ; the film stars Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte . It tells the story of the narrator's struggle to overcome the psychological damage inflicted by his dysfunctional childhood in South Carolina . Streisand directed and produced the film in addition to starring in it. Conroy and Becky Johnston adapted the screenplay. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Pictur...
Oct 08, 2018•24 min
Peter Rabbit is a 2018 American live-action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Will Gluck and written by Rob Lieber and Gluck, based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter . The film stars the voice of James Corden as the title character, with Rose Byrne , Domhnall Gleeson , Sam Neill , Daisy Ridley , Elizabeth Debicki , and Margot Robbie also starring. The film was released on February 9, 2018, and grossed $351 million worldwide. A sequel is set to be released on Februa...
Oct 01, 2018•23 min
Double Indemnity is a 1944 film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novella of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine, beginning in February 1936.
Sep 24, 2018•30 min
Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (or simply Borat) is a 2006 British-American mockumentary comedy film written and produced by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen who also plays the title character, Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist traveling through the United States recording real-life interactions with Americans.
Sep 17, 2018•28 min
"Battle of the Bastards" is the ninth and penultimate episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series Game of Thrones and its 59th episode overall. It was praised as one of the series' best episodes, with several reviewers describing the battle in the North as "terrifying, gripping and exhilarating". Its eponymous battle took 25 days to film and required 500 extras, 600 crew members and 70 horses.
Sep 10, 2018•37 min
In 1993 Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park was released, with a shot that forever changed our understanding of what could be done with special effects. This episode analyzes where your "focus" really needs to be to sell this game-changing effect. We also recap last week's "EditFest" a yearly event hosted by the American Cinema Editors (ACE) at Disney for editors and aspiring editors to come together and celebrate editing.
Sep 03, 2018•27 min
Is there anything you notice about the editing of this scene from 12 Years a Slave ? Sven thinks he has picked up on a previously unnoticed trick. If you want to watch along as we analyze the clip click here: 12 Years A Slave Scene Hop over to the Patreon page if you would like to participate in our discussion of the scene.
Aug 27, 2018•21 min
Check out our first episode and let us know what you think. If you want to watch along click the link to the Spider-Man Clip here. Hop over to the This Guy Edits Patreon page if you would like to join a discussion on the scene.
Aug 11, 2018•18 min
