VIDEOS ESSAYS

Antonioni’s Cinema of Absence

Video essay by Alessandro Luchetti and Manuela Lazić commissioned by MUBI and now available on MUBI Notebook.


Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps in Phantom Thread

A video analysis by Manuela Lazić for the You Gotta Act Youtube Channel

How the cast of Dawn of the Dead makes the horror more real

A video analysis by Manuela Lazić for the You Gotta Act Youtube Channel

David Lynch | Movies As Therapy

A video essay co-written for The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

Al Pacino | Underneath the Bravado

A video essay written for The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

Carrie - Bringing Self Awareness to Horror | New Hollywood Series

A video essay co-written for The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

Surviving Memories

Video essay by Alessandro Luchetti and Manuela Lazić to accompany the restoration of Mariya Saakyan’s Mayak (The Lighthouse) by Second Run DVD.
Screened at the 2020 Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival and now available on MUBI Notebook.

Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley

A video analysis by Manuela Lazić for the You Gotta Act Youtube Channel

How Directors Work With Actors

A video essay co-written for The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

The Silence of the Lambs | Making a Complex Thriller Character

A video essay co-written for The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

How The Godfather Reinvented The Gangster | New Hollywood Series

A video essay co-written The Discarded Image Youtube Channel

Paul Verhoeven’s Dreams of Excess

Video essay by Alessandro Luchetti and Manuela Lazić commissioned by MUBI and now available on MUBI Notebook.