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This 2009 movie won the 2010 Oscar for best foreign language film of the year: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/.
The plot concerns a retired investigator who is intent on solving a 20 year old rape murder. The plot is NOT the only important element of this film. It's also about the choices we make in life and the way we shackle ourselves to them. The cinematography is excellent (except for an unusually yellowish cast to nearly every scene), especially an outstanding 10-minute shot with no apparent edit that starts with a helicopter shot over a soccer stadium, descends, and keeps going going going.... I can't think of any other use of a camera in movement that goes on for so long. Very exciting shot. I liked the music, and the Dolby Digital 5.1 was immersive and impactful where it needed to be. Wish it was a Blu-Ray. This goes immediately into my top 20 films of all time.
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I've been waiting for that movie to come out on DVD or Bluray.
By the way, if you like long tracking shots, you MUST see "Russian Ark." The whole movie is one shot and it also manages to span about 300 years of time. This movie is much more than just that amazing technical feat, it is a wonderful movie experience.
I also like the long tracking shot at the beginning of "The Player." That single shot went around a whole Hollywood studio, both interiors and exteriors, so seamlessly that one could easily miss that trick except for one of the characters talking about tracking shots.
I well remember watching the opening shot of "The Player and noticing that the camera was doing exactly what the actor was talking about. I liked the movie, but that's the only scene I actually remember.
Another great tracking shot is at the climax of Hitchcock's "39 steps," where the protagonists know that the guy they're looking forward is somewhere in a crowded ballroom. The camera tracks from a very wide shot forward--forward--forward until the screen is filled with the eyes of the person they are looking for. The power of this shot is lost on the typical home tv--you need a BIG SCREEN!!
Yup, that is a great scene by Hitchcock. He was so well aware of how cuts can kill the tension and distroy momentum, and unintentionally give away information best kept secret. In Psycho, when the detective is in the house climbing the stairs to mom's room, he did a long continuous shot. In order to keep this tension going and to change the shot from one facing the detective to an angle where the viewer can see the attack coming, he had the camera slowly rise till it was directly above, looking down (obviously the house had no roof on it). This also conveniently hid the face of mom so the view could not see that it was Anthony Perkins.
Thanks for the suggestion of La Ventana--It just got added to my queue
Have you seen La Ventana? Carlos Sorin has been a revelation.
Added "The Secret" to my queue.
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