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― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)
the pan across the audience in the rules of the game (it doesn't last as long as many shots from postwar long-take films but it is one of the most expressive single shots ever)
the rape scene in landscape in the mist
countless shots in mizoguchi's films
there are so many
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)
Also, doesn't Russian Ark count as one big take?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― amateu!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
As for strict length, I think it's a subjective matter, so answer as seems fit.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)
ay ay ay
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)
les vampires !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago)
Not saying that they have to have famous shots...
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago)
200+ minutes, I only remember 3 cuts, if that.
Also, Janet Jackson's "Escapade" video feels like 1 take, but there are a couple slick cuts.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)
haha
mostly it just made me feel funny, you know, down there.
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)
are you saying you think there were only 3 cuts or that you only felt the impact of 3 cuts?
cos the maximum length of a 35 cartridge is roughly 9 minutes. and i don't think there are any shots in that film longer than 4 or so. (which is plenty long--since the average hollywood shot now is about 7 seconds or less.) some of jancso's 1970s films push the long take principle to its technologically-determined extreme: agnus dei and elektra are, IIRC, comprised exclusively of 8- and 9-minute takes.
video provides the opportunity for much longer takes of course, which russian ark used to its fullest.
rope has some very long "shots" that were actually two shots carefully made so as to long seamless--actually i think hitchcock may have hidden certain of the invisible cuts by placing them at reel changes.
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)
― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)
So is ILF dead or something? I was actually just thinking of starting a thread on Last Tango in Paris (yeah, I know there is already a Bertolucci S&D, I wanted a dedicated thread), which I finally saw for the first time..
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago)
well there's the famous dancing shot in the conformist, but i always thought it was kind of prissy/showoffy
― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)
Sorry! I only remember 3 cuts from Jeanne Dielman.
Also, the end of The Third Man.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)
i think wavelength is another "fudged" long take, although it certainly functions like a long take. any as an experimental film it's kind of a limit case. though the "long take" is question is undoubtedly put to an interesting use. (actually the last shot of the passenger does something similar.)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)
― sexyDancer, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)
but that's another discussion i guess
and in a woman under the influence
though i think a lot of cassavetes films have these loooooong scenes that have this almost halluciongenic strung-out feel, but they actually don't use many long takes as such
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)
(other super-long take films: gertrud, ordet, flowers of shanghai)
xpost
yeah that tenenbaums scene is lovely. very woody allenesque when you think about it.
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)
ally otm
sort of like how some art filmmakers are perceived as making "slow" films although their average shot length isn't that much higher than contemporary mainstream films. slowness...the feel of a film...is determined by so much more than shot length.... dreyer actually had a theory abt this, the different aspects of film that contributed to a feeling of slowness or quickness. i will try to find it tonight and reproduce it here.
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)
No kidding. The phone sex bit in Punch-Drunk Love stuck out like a sore thumb. It was awful.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:16 (twenty years ago)
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)
― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago)
― Mog, Friday, 3 September 2004 10:03 (twenty years ago)
― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 3 September 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago)
― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)
― JimD (JimD), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago)
cozen otm
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago)
the last shot of TTOT is an extreme long shot of the young man persuing the girl through the olive grove and then across the valley, the camera continues watching until they are just tiny specks in the distance, and eventually they disappear.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, Kiarostami is amazing. Maybe I like him better than my beloved Antonioni, come to think of it. Heck, I KNOW he's better than Antonioni; in my heart, I know it to be true. His humanism is simply unmatched. That is what sets him apart, I feel.
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:02 (twenty years ago)
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago)
Let's start this again, shall we?
MUSIC VIDEOSLucas' "Lucas with the Lid Off" is pleasant enough, albeit a bit too gimmicky and contrived at times, like it's using a long take just for the sake of using a long take. Massive Attack's "Protection" is much nicer, utilizing it as a vehicle rather than as the primary substance. Then, of course, "Sugar Water" by Cibo Matto is just incredible and takes the cake.
― Nomi Malone and Her Bloodstains (Stevie D), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:57 (sixteen years ago)
are those all on the gondry music video dvd?
― donna rouge, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:05 (sixteen years ago)
wait i think they are actually
― Nomi Malone and Her Bloodstains (Stevie D), Monday, 10 November 2008 05:12 (sixteen years ago)
children of men, the car attack scene!
― not_goodwin, Monday, 10 November 2008 08:00 (sixteen years ago)
Bela Tarr's kind of the king of the long take isn't he? I don't know if his stuff qualifies as "famous" though.
― circa1916, Monday, 10 November 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago)
Also some of those Warhol films.
― circa1916, Monday, 10 November 2008 08:09 (sixteen years ago)
Leone is a goldmine for these. My personal favorite of his is the train station sequence at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West. There are some good ones in TGTBATU as well.
Lynch also. Perhaps most notably, the opening scene from the Twin Peaks Season 2 premiere in which Agent Cooper is lying on the floor bleeding while "Senor' Droolcup" brings him warm mild & gives him the thumbs-up over and over: "I've heard about you."
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Monday, 10 November 2008 08:29 (sixteen years ago)
*milk
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Monday, 10 November 2008 08:30 (sixteen years ago)
Haha, yeah that was the perfect way to start Season 2. First season ends on a ridiculous cliffhanger and then we're welcomed back with that torturously drawn out WTF opening sequence. I'm so glad that show was made.
― circa1916, Monday, 10 November 2008 08:46 (sixteen years ago)
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:00 (4 years ago)
that last shot of 'the desert' came to mind, but this is sooo otm. antonioni kind of sucks compared to kiarostami and pretty much everyone else. i know we're talking about music videos tho. some chris cunningham has pretty long (edited?) takes in spite of his rep--his porthishead video, maybe autechre and bjork?
― Matt P, Monday, 10 November 2008 09:06 (sixteen years ago)
i think a lot of high-concept video directors do this but they're so heavily edited that it's like what's a long take and what isn't
― Matt P, Monday, 10 November 2008 09:08 (sixteen years ago)
the first shot of 'the wind will carry us' is pretty much the best long take of all time.
― Matt P, Monday, 10 November 2008 09:16 (sixteen years ago)
it's like 15 minutes or something and perfect, and the rest of the film is just as good.
― Matt P, Monday, 10 November 2008 09:17 (sixteen years ago)