Long Takes (best long uninterrupted shots in film)

UGO.com ^ | February 25, 2009 | Jordan Hoffman

[EveningStar]

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[robomatik]

martin scorcese (sp.?) and brian depalma are masters of this technique.

[stylecouncilor]

There is a great one in Goodfellas!

[dighton]

This one, though I’ll confess to having seen almost none of the others.

[DeusExMachina05]

Goodfellas scene where he (Henry Hill) takes his girlfriend to the club for the first time. One of the longest uninterrupted shots in film history. And well done!

[nomorelurker]

Maybe I missed it, but do not see the “long Shot” from THE LONGEST DAY in the list.

[garbanzo]

One of the commentors points out the film “Russian Ark” a 90 min feature film filmed in one take. Can’t beat that.

[WeatherGuy]

assault on Ouistreham in The Longest Day

[robomatik]

the longest day is still an amazing film. i haven’t watched it in a while, but you have inspired me to do so.

[1rudeboy]

I encourage anyone into this stuff to rent The Russian Ark. The entire movie was filmed in one cut, and it's spectacular.

[Arthur McGowan]

How about the prison interview in ADAM’S RIB—Katharine Hepburn and Judy Holliday, and secretary?

[Darkwolf377]

A third vote for RUSSIAN ARK, but it’s not for everyone. Very artistic (and arty—not the same thing), quiet, but thrilling.

TOUCH OF EVIL’s opening shot is amazing. While I like the GOODFELLAS shot, I think EVIL’s has more of a point to using the technique.

THE PLAYER parodies the EVIL shot in its opening.

[TADSLOS]

2001 Space Odyssey comes to mind.

[Borges]

Boogie Nights has a fantastic long tracking shot at the begining.

[BenLurkin]

Hitchock’s “Rope” was shot in two takes. The only reason it wasn't just one was because they had to change the film in the camera.

My favorite is the Kill Bill nightclub tracking shot.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting to see “strange Days” on this list. It is not a “big” movie by any measure but deserves to be seen by anyone looking for Sci-Fi set in a very reconizable, very familiar milieu.

[Darkwolf377]

It’s been so long that I can’t recall it, though I remember a number of complex ones in Anderson’s MAGNOLIA.

The best of those on this list are invisible in that you’re not sitting there thinking “Wow, long shot!” but you’re being affected by the director’s not cutting away—it creates a special level of involvment.

[Darkwolf377]

I wish I could put the one from MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS on here—but I haven’t seen it. It was part of the party scene, and the studio hacked it up. But reading a description of it is thrilling—the camera starts on the bottom floor and travels through the house during the party and ends after nine minutes.

[vollmond]

Robert Altman’s Kansas City had a long shot set in a jazz club that was outstanding.