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"Richard J. Leskosky" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:51:16 -0600
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> From: David Tetzlaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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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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