> > -----Original Message----- > From: David Tetzlaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Sat 3/13/2004 2:31 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: > Subject: long takes > > > 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 -- ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-4019 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3035 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org