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>       From: David Tetzlaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>       Sent: Sat 3/13/2004 2:31 AM
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>       Subject: long takes
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>       Can people recommend specific fiction films (and better specific
>       scenes) where long takes are employed toward the end of a Bazinian
>       realism?


How about Chantal Ackerman's  1976  Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du
Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles?

Also, Werner Herzog's early films  employed the long take more than
most -- e.g.  Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), especially in its
climactic scene.  In fact, he may have tended to use long takes in
general for climaxes or conclusions.  As I recall, Aguirre  the Wrath
of God  ends with a long take of  Aguirre, his daughter, and a pack
of monkeys drifting on a raft.  Stroszek ends with a long take of the
amusement park where the protagonist commits suicide.  Heart of Glass
is mostly long takes, as I recall.

Jena-Marie Straub also favored the long take -- cf. The Chronicle of
Anna Magdalena Bach (1968).

Much of the New German Cinema, for that matter, centered around the
long take to emphasize the realism of the story/image.

--Richard J. Leskosky
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