While watching The Vast of Night (2019), I was knocked out by the long take used to build suspense. It was all done with hand held cameras, and was impressive in it's mastery. Written/directed by Andrew Patterson, DP: M.I. Littin-Menz.
I got to looking around to find other long take examples, and there are scores of them. Here are a few that particularly impressed me. This, from Children of Men (2006), is stunning in its complexity. It's so good that the viewer takes awhile to realize that this is one long take. Writer/director: Alfonso Cuaron, DP: Emmanuel Lubezki.
This one is doubly impressive because in 1964 they didn't have CGI and all the technical equipment they do today. From I Am Cuba (1964), Director Mikhail Kalatozov, DP: Sergey Urusevskiy.
And for a shoot-out scene, this one is the longest and most complicated I've seen. From Hard Boiled (1992), Writer/director John Woo, DP: Wang Win Hang.
Which long takes in films do you like?
I got to looking around to find other long take examples, and there are scores of them. Here are a few that particularly impressed me. This, from Children of Men (2006), is stunning in its complexity. It's so good that the viewer takes awhile to realize that this is one long take. Writer/director: Alfonso Cuaron, DP: Emmanuel Lubezki.
This one is doubly impressive because in 1964 they didn't have CGI and all the technical equipment they do today. From I Am Cuba (1964), Director Mikhail Kalatozov, DP: Sergey Urusevskiy.
And for a shoot-out scene, this one is the longest and most complicated I've seen. From Hard Boiled (1992), Writer/director John Woo, DP: Wang Win Hang.
Which long takes in films do you like?