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Film analysis & criticism Videos Recommended on Hacker News (39)
Film analysis & criticism is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 39 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 100 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Film criticism: video essays about movies and directors, film history, behind-the-scenes, Kubrick, Star Wars production, screenwriting analysis, cinema studies.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy: “does an excellent job of explaining why Jackie Chan's way of doing action is awesome” — an HN commenter, 2022.
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8 mo on HNJackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy
Every Frame a Painting
9 HN recommender · 2015–2022
7 mo on HNEverything is a Remix (Original Series)
Kirby Ferguson
7 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HNThe Marvel Symphonic Universe
Every Frame a Painting
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
4 mo on HNThe Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Jenny Nicholson
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HNAkira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
Every Frame a Painting
5 HN recommender · 2017–2025
4 mo on HNVancouver Never Plays Itself
Every Frame a Painting
4 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNThe Fall of The Simpsons: How it Happened
Super Eyepatch Wolf
9 HN recommender · 2017–2026
3 mo on HNPink Floyd Echoes & 2001 A Space Odyssey HD
barrettproduction
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNFlight of the Navigator | VFXcool
Captain Disillusion
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
3 mo on HNMichael Bay - What is Bayhem?
Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2015–2025
3 mo on HNEdgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNSlavoj Žižek on "They Live" (The Pervert's Guide to Ideology)
Christian G
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HNDune 1984 Alternative Edition Redux edited by Spicediver / Multiple Subs / 4K Upscaling by GW
GW Remasters
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNThe Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2)
Lindsay Ellis
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNMy Octopus Teacher: The Greatest Horror Film
Maggie Mae Fish
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNStar Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)
RedLetterMedia
2 HN recommender · 2010–2022
3 mo on HNVFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi
Corridor Crew
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNBuster Keaton - The Art of the Gag
Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
3 mo on HNEverything is a Remix (2023 Edition)
Kirby Ferguson
3 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNSolaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
Mosfilm
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNSatoshi Kon - Editing Space & Time
Every Frame a Painting
3 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HNBack to the Future | VFXcool (1/2)
Captain Disillusion
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HNBlade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)
Fallopium Films
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HNYMS: Kimba the White Lion
YMS
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HNPassengers, Rearranged
Nerdwriter1
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HNStarship Troopers - re:View
RedLetterMedia
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
2 mo on HN"You Couldn't Make Blazing Saddles Today!"
Infranaut
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNHow Star Wars was saved in the edit
RocketJump
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNWhy 'Idiocracy' Would Actually Be A Utopia
Cracked
1 HN recommend · 2016–2018
1 mo on HNStar Trek: Picard - re:View
RedLetterMedia
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNRatatouille(2007)-the critic Ego's review
elbertj1
0 HN recommender · 2012–2015
0 mo on HNGhost in the Shell montage sequence HD 1080p
tekknobabblr
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNMilitary Recruitment and Hollywood
Pop Culture Detective
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HNThe Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory
Pop Culture Detective
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023
0 mo on HNBryan Mills jumps a fence
MartialArtsFights
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HNStar Wars Origins: The Dam Busters - Side by Side Scene Comparison
The Non-Conformist
0 HN recommender · 2016–2025