The opening credits of Noah Baumbach's last feature, 2010's Greenberg, play over
lingering shots of the film's co-star Greta Gerwig as she drives around Los Angeles to the tune of Steve Miller Band's «Jet Airliner».
Not exact matches
Nothing is better suited for 35 mm
film than the western because
of the narrative significance
of the land, often depicted in
lingering long
shots.
Frequently
filmed in a sort
of washed - out, oversaturated hue, the fights are crisply
shot and well choreographed and the camera tends not to
linger on the damage done.
If it's all not obvious enough, the final
shot of the
film is a
lingering hold on the Rekall billboard.
A couple
of longing,
lingering moments
shot through snow - wet car windows and in Edward Hopper - framed hotel rooms (it's Haynes's most Wenders work), as well as a final
shot that is the picture at its most evocative and unapologetically Romantic, point to the
film that might have been.
And until then, the
film is so remarkable at synching its picturesque style to Moonee's seemingly limitless freedom that the one time they do fall out
of sync feels jarring, almost offensive: In long
shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series
of stores and toward the promise
of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera
lingers on the sight
of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound
of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense
of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's life.
Previously titled Quebec, it ignores farcical broadsides,
shots to the groin and contrived dashes through aisles
of precariously balanced glass bottles in favor
of swallowed awkwardness and
lingering customer service issues, and the result is probably one
of the most low - fi movies about masculine competitiveness and existential crisis ever put to
film.
Though the movie isn't without the typical Bayisms (from the overuse
of slow motion and
lingering shots of the American flag, to the corny dialogue), «13 Hours» is a marked improvement compared to his recent output that harkens back to earlier
films like «The Rock.»
It's a wide
shot that
lingers long enough to allow viewers to get caught up in their own thoughts — perhaps about the
film's eerie opening, or the blank expressions on the faces
of the concertgoers, or the increasing reverb
of the piano's notes, bouncing around the theater, onscreen and off.
Brittel's chopped and screwed hip - hop and classical soundtrack adds emotional depth to Jenkins» beautifully and meticulously
shot scenes
of his Miami characters (roughly in the «80's) that
linger long after the
film.
The
film is dead simple in its visual execution, except for some symbolic flourishes that will either jar with you or make you feel there's a mysterious resonance you can't quite pinpoint — like a
lingering shot of the dark interior
of a sauna locker, this
film's equivalent
of that black sun
of an air extractor in Apichatpong's Syndromes and a Century.
Shot on 35 mm in luminous, sun - dappled tones in the French village
of Saint - Antonin - Noble - Val (with some second - unit work in India), and handsomely appointed by production designer David Gropman and costume designer Pierre - Yves Gayraud, the
film is also distinguished by its mouth - watering visual buffet, whether
lingering on vats
of steaming red curry or a perfectly plated pigeon with truffles.
The way his camera
lingers over a large plate glass window overlooking a snowy field in between condo housing or the frontal
shot of a woman's distant stare as she runs in place on a treadmill lend his
films an authority
of presence that's continually striking.
Siegel weaves a history
of surveillance techniques and technologies through interviews with psychoanalysts, former Stasi employees and a former East German group
of Native American sympathisers, excerpts from surveillance videos and GDR feature
films, and
lingering tracking
shots of Stasi offices.