Lawrence's face, or the back of her head, takes up nearly
every single shot of the film.
Not exact matches
For a half hour, @sigeyosiinoue
filmed a
single shot of an ocean
of people flooding through the terminal.
They discovered that when a
single layer
of iron selenide
film is placed atop STO, its maximum superconducting temperature
shoots up from 8 degrees to nearly 77 degrees above absolute zero (minus 196 degrees Celsius).
At the end
of a big rhinoceros battle, a male character submits to Gurira in the
film's
single most iconic
shot, while an earlier scene in which she tosses aside a bad wig ranks as the most gay - friendly Marvel moment to date.
The circumscribed aesthetic
of the cheap thriller
film - within - the -
film that Binoche is
shooting — made clear from the
shot - reverse
shot editing and close - ups antithetical to the look
of the rest
of the
film,
shot mostly in
single takes — signals that we're somehow outside
of Haneke's world, even though we're actually buried deep within its layers.
It's the first feature - length narrative
film shot in a
single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead
of tape).
The latter describes a
single shot in the
film as a «55 - minute tour de force
of sustained mobile camerawork to rival such one - take wonders as Russian Ark — and in 3 - D, to boot.
Director Rupert Goold
shoots True Story with a pulled back approach, never quite placing all
of the blame on Christian, while also questioning every
single word that he speaks up until the
film's exposing finale.
Despite perilously under - lighting a few nighttime sequences, cinematographer Rachel Morrison
shoots the country so full
of life that it's genuinely hard to believe she didn't
film a
single frame
of it in Africa (for a movie that's full
of sloppy CG, the environmental green screen work is astonishing).
For the «Takes» series
of issues, contributors were asked to write a complete essay on a
single shot, color, cut, or instance
of sound design; each article breaks down these elements
of filmmaking in a way someone who hasn't been to
film school can appreciate.
A mural maker fluent in the extended, meandering, zooming wide
shot, Altman could swallow elaborate social environments like Hollywood in a
single gulp; and by peopling those environments with actors set free to improvise, he allowed an uncanny degree
of naturalistic behavior to indemnify the real - lifeness he collected by, it seems, just rolling and rolling
film and looking around him.
As for the 70 mm presentation... considering most
of the
film is
shot indoors, on a
single set, is it fair
of me to say that it seems like a waste
of the format?
There isn't a
single shot of sunshine, yet the
film is still stunning.
Any number
of great
films, even leisurely paced ones, will provide wondrous examples
of how much story detail you can pack into a scene and even within a
single shot.
In a Frederick Wiseman - ish way, some
of his subjects appear for only a
single brief scene, while some recur throughout, and they're certainly a broad selection: an aristocrat who hires his family home out for
film shoots, paramedics, an eel fishermen, some transsexual prostitutes, and a man trying to stop insects from destroying palm trees.
Following a
single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence
of their mother represented by three different actresses, the
film has the barest thread
of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series
of shots that last upwards
of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.
It takes guts to
shoot a
film over twelve years, but it takes even more to play a
single mom over that period
of time — and Arquette really was as amazing as she was gutsy.
Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son
of Michael), the
film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination
of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's
single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the
film seeks to psychologise him) by which the
film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.
Victoria (Germany, 2015)-- 9:00 PM «Victoria (2015) is an impressive technical achievement: a street
film turned romantic drama turned crime thriller,
shot in a
single, unbroken take in real time over the course
of a couple
of hours between late night and dawn.
Perhaps because this is a
film written and directed by men, cutting loose for these moms does not mean acting like they did when they were young and
single, but rather a frat boy fantasy involving speeding in muscle cars, downing bottles
of vodka and Jell - O
shots, shrugging off any responsibilities, flipping their condescending boss the bird, throw wild and hedonistic parties, and trying to get laid with easy hookups at the local bar.
by Walter Chaw Billed as being
filmed in a
single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes
of Alfonso Cuarón's Children
of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.
It's
shot in black and white which adds some style, and it has a haunting score by Abel Korzeniowski (
of A
Single Man, W.E.), but this is a
film that is destined to be loved by a small audience, and be much more
of a cult classic than anything.
Unfolding in his signature long takes — the opener is a candidate for
shot of the year — the
film ventures to the driver's
single - room home in a windswept prairie, where he and his daughter subsist on potatoes and wait out a storm
of apocalyptic proportions.
every
film he makes is exactly what Tarantino wants to make he holds back nothing and achieves with a
single camera
shot the intensity
of a million dollar CGI fest.
The way that the fragments follow each other seems to have a new fluidity — and with the exception
of the prologue and epilogue scenes, and the
film within the
film, all the other scenes are
shot in a
single take — despite the regulation cuts to black.
Beyond the incredible stunt casting, there's a shamelessly impressive formal gimmick: Most
of the film has been shot to resemble a single, unbroken take, the great Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children Of Men) masking cuts under cover of backstage darknes
of the
film has been
shot to resemble a
single, unbroken take, the great Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, Children
Of Men) masking cuts under cover of backstage darknes
Of Men) masking cuts under cover
of backstage darknes
of backstage darkness.
Unfortunately, he's one big scene shy
of having any
shot at supporting actor nominations, adding to his streak
of appearing in and dramatically aiding decorated
films without ever being personally
singled out with accolades.
The disc also features six different radio spots, a
single TV spot, and a theatrical trailer (2 mins., HD) consisting mainly
of the
film's money
shots edited together, tail to head, with The Car's signature horn blaring on the soundtrack: BEEP!
With over a hundred
films in his C.V. (including silents), King remained one
of the studio's leading directors for decades, and though he worked with superb cinematographers, his
films consistently show a dramatic visual style that maximizes elements within a
single shot, plus a knack for crafting kinetic action scenes — particularly the storming
of the fortress at the end
of the
film.
In accordance with their agreement for a
single day
of closure for a
single day
of shooting at the Hermitage Museum, Sokurov and his boundless crew managed to capture the entire
film on the forth try, the last and final attempt.
Typical for modern
films of this nature, the action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a
single well - framed
shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).
Battle
of the Bulge (Ken Annakin, 1965,
filmed in Ultra Panavision 70) and Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, 1966,
filmed in Super Panavision 70) were both marketed as Cinerama
films, even though they were
shot on
single 65 mm negatives.
The
film starts with an opening sequence full
of style and pace as we follow stunt motorcycle rider Luke (Ryan Gosling) in one stunning four minute
single tracking
shot, as he walks through the bright lights
of the carnival to the roaring crowd who await him.
However, Anderson operated the camera for this
film (with the help
of other crew members, hence why he refuses to be called the director
of photography for this picture), so every
single shot is likely exactly what Anderson intended.
He also replicates a
single unbroken
shot from the original
film's sequence at a soccer stadium; this time, it's set at Dodgers Stadium and impressively
shot by cinematographer Daniel Moder (Roberts» husband), as Ray and fellow detective «Bumpy» (Dean Norris) pick out the suspect out
of the crowded stands and give him a chase.
Other topics arising: costumes (which included CGI armor), linguistics, fighting styles, production design, visual effects (from the unsettling depiction
of X-ray vision), set pieces (the tornado sequence, Lois Lane's complicated
single shot work escape), underwater
filming, and
filming locations.
LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003): Sofia Coppola?s minimalist
film says more with a
single shot of Bill Murray?s eyes than most say with 120 pages
of dialogue.
The DVD and Blu - ray are both released on
single disc and two - disc sets, that latter with the usual making
of featurette and deleted scenes, plus a short featurette on the
film's set design and locations and a brief «
Shooting Diary,» all in Cantonese with English subtitles.
Her only explanation was to cite a
single shot that occurs quite early in the
film: Linda (Linda Manz), the narrator, is fleeing the industrial inferno
of 1916 Chicago with her older brother and his girlfriend (Richard Gere and Brooke Adams).
That's right, Paramount just dropped the net worth
of 2013 Kanye West on this
film without even a
single shot filmed.
He's in some
of the longest, most aggressively focused two -
shots in all
of American cinema, some
of which push in so slowly that they seem ever still — yes, this is a feat (just ask Waterston, whose hypnotic, naked,
single - take monologue late in the
film goes beyond bravura in front
of Anderson's patient camera).
by Walter Chaw Stop on any
single frame
of Alfonso Cuarón's remarkable war idyll Children
of Men — a
film that's rarely in repose, sometimes seeming composed
of one long, frantic
shot — and I suspect the sharp - eyed, educated viewer would be able to cull a reference to modern art, most likely one about men reduced to their base animal nature.
Anne Hathaway's brief work as Fantine is memorable, and her signature song «I Dreamed a Dream» stops the
film in its tracks with her
single shot rendition
of I dreamed a dream
shot up close and personal which delivers an impressive wounded, defiant vocal.
A long
single shot in which Shaun walks to his neighborhood shop near the beginning
of the
film is repeated after the zombie outbreak has begun; Shaun is so dimly aware
of his surroundings that he scarcely notices the blood smeared on his convenience store's cooler, the crashed cars in the road or the shuffling, groaning people slowly making their way down the street toward him.
Three minutes later, in a
single tracking
shot, the climactic moment
of the
film is done.
She had a coming out doubleheader at this year's Sundance
Film Festival where she was the star
of two
of its most buzzed about
films: Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which she plays a girl who escapes from a cult, and Silent House a
film that uses a
single camera
shot to follow her character, a terrified girl descending into madness, around an abandoned summer house.
This list, or so I've tried, was put together following many different but intimate echoes in between
films; some correspond just in reflections
of a
single shot, others to the general feeling experienced, many to a communal and identified way
of being (for example, woman),
of living, cinematically.
In several
shots from 1974 that were
filmed with a stationary camera, and in at least one
shot from 1980, the picture develops a mild but unmistakable case
of vertical jitters, with the image shifting up and down a
single pixel or two from frame to frame, indicating some minor registration problems during the
film - scanning or telecine process.
It's surprising, because Rosenthal made the patient, rural noir A
Single Shot — not a great
film, but one that at least conveyed a clear sense
of place.
The 27 - year - old son
of film legend Brendan Gleeson was
singled out for a
Shooting Star award at the Berlin
Film Festival (10 — 20 February 2011 as well as receiving an IFTA Rising Star award.