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Professional Film Analysis

by Alex Nibley

There is nothing quite like the magical experience of going into a theater, entering another world, and experiencing life through characters on a screen in a way you never could in everyday life.I'm Alex Nibley, and the purpose of Professional Film Analysis is to explore the principles of cinematic storytelling that create these experiences. Not criticism. Not reviews. Just understanding how films do what they do and what filmmakers can steal from them.I spent twenty-two years teaching screenwriting and film analysis as I learned it from my mentor, Frank Daniel , founding dean of the American Film Institute, founding artistic director of Sundance Institute, creator of the graduate screenwriting program at Columbia, and dean of the College of Cinematic Arts at USC. I met Frank in the early 1980s and studied with him in the last two years of his life.Here you'll find Deep Dive episodes where I dissect films in real time, Core Principle talks on the fundamentals of cinematic communi