You'll be watching a movie or a TV show and at some point it hits you–the camera has not cut to a new shot in a really long time. Whenever a director wants to display their mastery, the tool they ...

Game of Thrones has done it again, putting together one of the most intense scenes ever made for television. The Battle of the Bastards was a 30-minute opus of death and destruction featuring a ...

At the same time as the world slowed down during the pandemic, Eduardo Mendoza ’24 became fascinated with the cinematic technique of the leisurely long take, in which a camera seemingly stays focused ...

William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...

When Robert Altman directed his Hollywood satire "The Player" in 1992, he opened the film with an elaborately choreographed shot that ran eight minutes and introduced the audience to several key ...

Forget that “Silent House” is shot in a single, continuous long take and what do you have? A persistently terrified Elizabeth Olsen embodying a young woman even less in touch with reality than her ...

A new Blu-ray upgrade of the director's 1948 Shakespeare adaptation invites a closer look at the technical and thematic ideas Welles would continue to explore until his death. When asked about the ...

Children of Men wasn’t the first film to stage lengthy scenes with intricate camera movements all contained within one shot, but it was certainly a game changer. For decades, directors had ...

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