THE CINEMATOGRAPH

ESSAYS

Movie reviews

Please see the Movies tab or the Home page for links to medium-length essays on individual films.

General topics

Essays on broad film-related topics, including film theory & strategies for viewing or writing about movies.

• 8 Keys to Understanding a Movie
• 7 Rules of Film Criticism

Comparative essays

Essays tracing an idea across different films, e.g. through history, or across the work of a director

• The Hypothesis of the Missing Hitchcock
• many more coming soon…