As you're thinking about how to approach Task 4, the proliferation of video essays in the last few years provides a lot of examples of ways to take apart a scene. (Note: there are a lot of text essays around -- I'm just focusing on video essays below as they allow you to see what the author is discussing while they're discussing it.)
From 1848 Media, an extensive piece on one of the beach set pieces of Jaws. (Note how many of the techniques we saw in Schindler's List's nightclub sequence are active here.)
A recent video essay on exposition in the opening sequence of Fincher's Se7en.
From Antonios Papantoniou, wordless shot-by-shot analyses of The Untouchables (I showed part of this in the editing class), Cape Fear and others.
Matt Marlin offers video essays on Whiplash (strong on editing and cinematography in emphasis), Boogie Nights (very good on sound) and others.
A strong dissection of the influences of Inception and its status as 'surrealist'.
Tony Zhou, Jacob Swinney and Kogonada tend to be more about aesthetic arcs or visual motifs across a whole film or many films than specific scene breakdowns, but they're a good model to look at as well. The latter's 'What is neorealism?' must be one of the most valuable video essays yet produced.
From Martin Scorsese's Personal Journey through American Cinema: 'The Smugglers' (those who snuck subversive ideas into mainstream entertainment); The Western (a genre study).
Turning the camera on Scorsese, here's Mark Cousins' Scene by Scene (a TV series from the mid-90s). Cousins is also the director of the majestic Story of Film series and A Story of Children and Film.
Also consider these: Pulp Fiction (breakfast scene, Nicolas Eason), Psycho (opening, Max Cannon), Citizen Kane (specifically the blocking, Mind on Film), Raising Arizona (IB Film II), No Country for Old Men (Landrey Lemons) and the ending of the same film (Rolling Bottle).
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