Film Analysis & Criticism Videos Hacker News Recommends
Film analysis & criticism videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering video essays about movies and directors, film history, behind-the-scenes, Kubrick, Star Wars production, screenwriting analysis, cinema studies.
29 videos · ranked by HN recommendations
Most recommended film analysis & criticism videos
The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.
explainer#248Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting
“does an excellent job of explaining why Jackie Chan's way of doing action is awesome”
9 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
documentary#327Everything is a Remix (Original Series)
Kirby Ferguson
“The best explanation of creativity that I have found is a video series by Kirby Ferguson called Everything Is a Remix”
7 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
commentary#451The Marvel Symphonic Universe
Every Frame a Painting
“You don't have to have seen any Marvel movies, the insights are universal.”
6 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
documentary#650The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Jenny Nicholson
“here's as an incredible documentary covering the misaligned incentives and poor guest experience at the now-shuttered Disney Star Wars hotel.”
4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
explainer#670Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
Every Frame a Painting
“check out the wonderful commentary by 'Every Frame a Painting'”
5 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
explainer#1153Vancouver Never Plays Itself
Every Frame a Painting
“There's also a much shorter, funnier one called "Vancouver Never Plays Itself”
4 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
commentary#1273The Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
Super Eyepatch Wolf
“For an actual exploration of what happened, I highly recommend this video.”
9 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
music#1422Pink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
barrettproduction
“the sync of Echoes and 2001 is the BEST thing I have ever seen in my life”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
documentary#1434Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool
Captain Disillusion
“I highly recommend this video on the making of Flight of the Navigator.”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
explainer#1481Michael Bay - What is Bayhem?
Every Frame a Painting
“short, easily digestible, and well-produced YouTube videos about this stuff that are eye-opening.”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
explainer#1488Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
Every Frame a Painting
“short, easily digestible, and well-produced YouTube videos about this stuff that are eye-opening.”
3 HN recommenders · 2015–2024
commentary#1662Slavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
Christian G
“it finally clicked after hearing Zizek talk about it.”
3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
other#1742Dune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux edited by Spicediver / Multiple Subs / 4K Upscaling by GW
GW Remasters
“The Spicediver edit of Lynch's Dune proved to me that Dune is filmable. I think it remains the best adaptation of Dune.”
3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
commentary#1844The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
Lindsay Ellis
“Lindsay Ellis has a three-part video essay series”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
commentary#1858My Octopus Teacher: The Greatest Horror Film
Maggie Mae Fish
“I would recommend people not to watch it and instead watch this well done critique (and criticism)”
3 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
commentary#1991Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)
RedLetterMedia
“thanks to them I have learned a lot about movies, actors, directors and movie making in general.”
2 HN recommenders · 2010–2022
commentary#2058VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi
Corridor Crew
“a really good example of this is this comparison between the old and new Dune movies”
4 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
explainer#2106Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
Every Frame a Painting
“a great Every Frame a Painting film essay on his work”
3 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
documentary#2121Everything is a Remix (2023 Edition)
Kirby Ferguson
“It highlights how essentially everything in culture is a remix of some previous version of the culture”
3 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
other#2137Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
Mosfilm
“the film's a masterpiece that I highly recommend”
2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
explainer#2259Satoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
Every Frame a Painting
“Watch Every Frame a Painting’s video[1] and pick any movie.”
3 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
explainer#2409Back to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
Captain Disillusion
“is a really good yet succinct documentary on it”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
commentary#2481Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)
Fallopium Films
“The best video essay on the movie”
2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
commentary#2938YMS: Kimba the White Lion
YMS
“Here's a nearly 3 hour video from someone whose Special Interest is The Lion King where he researches the claims that it's ripping off Kimba.”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
commentary#2947Passengers, Rearranged
Nerdwriter1
“NerdWriter on youtube has a good video on how the change would look”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
commentary#3064Starship Troopers - re:View
RedLetterMedia
“Red Letter Media has a very good analyis of the whole thing”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
commentary#3337"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
Infranaut
“I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
explainer#4013How Star Wars was saved in the edit
RocketJump
“A good video.”
1 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
comedy#4149Why 'Idiocracy' Would Actually Be A Utopia
Cracked
1 HN recommenders · 2016–2018
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