Every Frame a Painting
The original “Every Frame a Painting” was a series of video essays about film form, made from April 2014 to September 2016. We officially announced the end of the channel in December 2017.- One of the many pleasures of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (2011) is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Even though most of the images follow a simple quadrant system, Refn puts plenty of subtle touches within the frame. Let’s take a look.