A citizen journalist, Ziad S Homsi, from Douma’s documented the terrible results of these massacres and the collection of the bodies for the funerals by the remaining family members. In addition to the human catastrophe, Homsi also filmed the destruction and devastation that the regime’s shelling and invasion had left behind in the city. In […]
Read moreAnother example of a one single shot that is on a story level, this is an absolutely bravura sequence from the terrifically entertaining 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner. Established by a wide “helicopter” shot of a packed football stadium, we fly into close up on our heroes in the stands, swim in and out […]
Read moreThe champ is the notorious “New Year’s Eve” sequence, which follows Little Bill (William H. Macy) as he makes an unfortunate discovery, and decides to do something about it. It is not just the gliding camerawork that makes the sequence so effective; the cuts which follows it, first to the concerned partygoers, then to Macy […]
Read moreDirector Martin Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus created the famous “Copa sequence” in Goodfellas, where the camera follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and his girlfriend Karen (Lorraine Bracco) into the Copacabana nightclub, through the backdoor, down hallways, through the kitchen, and out to the floor, where waiters set up a table to give them a […]
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