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he Greatest Long Tracking Shots in Cinema

post #1 of 16
5/19/07 at 12:18am
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Touch of Evil (1958) – The Opening Shot - dir. Orson Welles

Goodfellas (1990) – The Copacabana – dir. Martin Scorsese

Boogie Nights (1997) – The Opening Shot in the Club – dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Raging Bull (1980) – Pesci and De Niro Walking to the Fight – dir. Martin Scorsese

Oldboy (2003) – The Fight with the Hammer – dir. Chan Wook Park

The Player (1992) – The Opening Shot – dir. Robert Altman

Magnolia (1999) – Entering the Studio – dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

I Am Cuba (1964) – The Rooftop – dir. Mikael Kalatozov

Children of Men (2006) – The Car Chase – dir. Alfonso Cuaron

Hard Boiled (1992) – The Hospital Shootout – dir. John Woo

The Protector aka Tom yum goong (2006) - Running Up the Staircase dir. Prachya Pinkaew

Carlito’s Way (1993) – The Subway Chase - dir. Brian De Palma

Russian Ark (2002) – The Whole Damn Movie – dir. Aleksandr Sokurov

The Passenger (1975) – Locke’s Death – dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Satantango (1994) Walking to the Police Station dir. Bela Tarr

Weekend (1967) Tracking Across the Farm Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Breaking News (2004) – The opening shootout - Dir. Johnny To

Strange Days (1995) – The Opening POV Chase – Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

Nostalghia (1983) – Carrying the Candle – Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Elephant (2003) – John's Walk Through the Halls and Outside – Dir. Gus Van Sant

Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003) – The 5,6,7,8’s – Dir. Quentin Tarantino

Serenity (2005) – The Opening Credits/Walk Though the Ship – Dir. Joss Whedon

Snake Eyes (1998) - The Opening - Dir. Brian De Palma

Great Expectations (1999) Kissing in the Rain – Dir. Alfonso Cuaron

Nine Lives (2005) - William Fichtner Sequence – Dir. Rodrigo Garcia

Irreversible (2002 ) – At the Club - Dir. Gaspar Noé

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - The Hospital Riot - Dir. Bela Tarr
Pretty comprehensive list. Click on lick to see video of each scene.
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post #2 of 16
5/19/07 at 12:28am
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Serenity (2005) – The Opening Credits/Walk Though the Ship – Dir. Joss Whedon
This is actually two shots, spliced together. I don't know if that falls under the category as some of the others, but it was worth noting.
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post #3 of 16
5/19/07 at 12:43am
not a bad list at all. i know its recent, but Death Proof has a sweet one take around the diner table, when the girls are talking and stuntman mike is in the background eating at the counter.

man, good thing i didnt write this list. those shot summaries are way more succinct than mine.
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post #4 of 16
5/19/07 at 12:44am
Incomplete without "Non Nobis" from Brannagh's Henry V.
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post #5 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:01am
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Originally Posted by RathBandu
This is actually two shots, spliced together. I don't know if that falls under the category as some of the others, but it was worth noting.
So is the shot from Hard Boiled too, right? There's a splice when he's in the elevator.
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post #6 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:02am
The Star Destroyer going across the opening scene in A New Hope. While not quite the same as the list above is at least a close Cousin. Happy Birthday Diva.
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post #7 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:08am
Johnnie To's BREAKING NEWS opening is brilliant, and the rest of the film's not bad either. The end sequence is also an impressive long take, but that minutes-long opening shot is a jaw-dropper.
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post #8 of 16
5/19/07 at 2:55am
I really like when Johnny Utah enters the FBI bureau for his first day in Point Break.

I also really like when GTO and The Girl are sitting in the diner and The Driver and The Mechanic catch up to them near the end of Two-Lane Blacktop. They're having a conversation at a table and you see the car arriving in the background, they get out and we follow their entrance in the diner.
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post #9 of 16
5/19/07 at 3:05am
Bonfire of the Vanities? Raising Cain? Absolute Beginners?
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post #10 of 16
5/19/07 at 5:24am
Hard Boiled.
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post #11 of 16
5/19/07 at 5:42am
No Citizen Kane? There are at least two amazing long ones-- everybody remembers the camera flying up and over Susan's nightclub and entering through the skylight, but Thatcher's flashback to young Kane in the snow through the window is pretty spiffy too.

Nice to see Nostalghia on there though. What an extraordinary scene.
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post #12 of 16
5/19/07 at 9:44am
Once Upon a Time in the West. The long shot where Frank discovers the aftermath of a bloody shootout between Cheyenne's men and Morton's. In one long, wordless shot, we discover with him as he pours through the train, looking for any survivors, as the camera trucks right, past bodies, horses, giving the audience all the information they need as to how things went down. Again, no words, no music, just one long shot. Beautiful.
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post #13 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:30pm
The last shot of Electra Glide in Blue.
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post #14 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by 70sCinema
The last shot of Electra Glide in Blue.
That's a beautiful one.
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post #15 of 16
5/19/07 at 1:44pm
I know BOOGIE NIGHTS has one on there but I've always loved the shot of William H. Macy's last few minutes in the film.

I'm glad the staircase sequence from THE PROTECTOR is on there. That one really stands out among recent movies.
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post #16 of 16
5/19/07 at 2:28pm
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Originally Posted by 70sCinema
The last shot of Electra Glide in Blue.
I saw most of that movie from the middle to the end last night for the first time. Blake is great. I'm convinced I need to buy it. And the last shot is amazing.
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