Jason Kottke celebrating the continued return of Every Frame a Painting: I’m gonna call it: Every Frame a Painting, my all-time favorite YouTube channel, is back. Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos stopped producing their fantastic video essays back in 2017 and while they have popped up here and there since then, they’ve mostly stuck to their retirement.1 But for the past few months, the duo have been releasing video essays produced in partnership with Criterion: Night of the Living Dead: Limitations into Virtues, The Blade (1995): The Edges of Wuxia, and just yesterday, The Visual Comedy of Isle of Dogs(embedded above). But is it a return or are buried essays finally surfacing? Out of the recent uploads, two of them are actually old essays made for the Criterion releases of Night of the Living Dead and Isle of Dogs. In fact, it seems that the Night of the Living Dead essay was made eight years ago for the Blu-Ray release of the film before the iconic duo retired.2 The essay for The Blade is…
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