I'll go ahead and give my vote of confidence for all of "Every Frame a Painting" - for a complete newbie like me, it was an amazing introduction to film in general and understanding what to pay attention to, and why certain movies or directors are interesting or exciting to some people. Now I can't help but see more of these details everywhere.
The Akira Kurosawa one, the Ensemble Staging one, the Satoshi Kon one, the Wolf Children one are some of my favourites.
Nerdwriter1 does similar stuff but it's a bit more hit or miss for me. Some of it I love, versus some is a bit too out on a limb.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Nerdwriter1. I loved his Shane Black and Lord of the Rings leitmotif videos but some of the more conceptual stuff can be pretty hard to take. A good example would be his Bon Iver video which mostly seems like conceptual waffle.
Nerdwriter also branches out more into subjects he doesn't actually have expertise in, while Tony Zhou is at least a professional editor who sticks to talking about editing.
It's really interesting and awesome to see channels like Every Frame a Painting putting out videos with better production value/editing/content quality than what you'd get from most serious networks with millions in funding. And these are typically solo creators writing, narrating, producing, and editing everything themselves or with 1-2 others.
If you enjoy this, I also highly recommend "Filming Othello", a similar video essay. Will be available hopefully in higher quality on the upcoming Criterion release of Welles' Othello, or right now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvqeQt8aLnU
On a general Welles note: I also recommend One Man Band http://www.ubu.com/film/welles_oneman.html which is actually where I first heard of F for Fake and talks a lot about Welles ' creative process (or well talks about how he was creative).
