Go deep into the art of a master filmmaker with Julian Palmer of The Discarded Image. He explains the way Stanley Kubrick used close-ups to give us lots of emotional information from the big screen in just a second or two. Contains a little NSFW language.
When you watch someone analyzing the smallest details of a movie like this, you have to wonder whether Kubrick (or another filmmaker) actually put this much thought into each shot, or whether the effective style became automatic and instinctive to him over time. -via Laughing Squid