You'll be watching a movie or a TV show and at some point it hits you–the camera has not cut to a new shot in a really long time. Whenever a director wants to display their mastery, the tool they ...

Long takes have taken over TV, but it's been a uniquely cinematic trick for decades. Few cinematic tools are used as often — and as badly — as the oner. Also known as a long take or a one shot, a oner ...

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. Ever since Orson Welles recharged the pulpy crime genre with Touch of Evil by opening the film on a ticking bomb ...

At the same time as the world slowed down during the pandemic, Eduardo Mendoza ’24 became fascinated with the cinematic technique of the leisurely long take, in which a camera seemingly stays focused ...

Plus: Watch an exclusive clip of the groundbreaking shot. With the 41-minute long take in “Kaili Blues,” Chinese director Bi Gan announced himself as an exciting new cinematic voice who demanded the ...