when the director is reeeally good at their job

Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: , , Follow me on Instagram: , , Support me on Patreon: The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, isn t just a great movie. It s a brilliantly directed one. Steven Spielberg s skill at blocking and stages scenes is second to none. Today we ll take a look at some of the ways Spielberg implements blocking and staging using the same method that director Steven Soderbergh uses to analyze films: making the movie black and white, and taking away all of its score and allowing us to focus only on the film s visual storytelling. Written Edited by Danny Boyd Special Research by Simon Leftie , StevenSpielberg, IndianaJones, VideoEssay