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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

The single greatest SHOT ever...?

One of my favorite opening scenes is in "Excalibur" and the cut from the firelit battle in the woods at night to the calm, misty dawn at the lake:

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Clint you are a genius !
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We are all really showing our age by the clips we choose, very interesting.
Aloha
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I'm 37 (and getting harder to impress lately I have noticed) and was pretty blown away recently by some of the work in Children of men notably the car attack and the end as Owen ascends the building - don't know if it was the most poignant but it certainly was among the "single greatest shots" I have seen in a movie theatre.
 
The final shot of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia.' For my money the most beautiful shot in the entire history of cinema.

Of course, DVD screencaps don't do it justice at all, but here are frames near the start and the end of the shot. It's a very slow pullout which places the protagonist by his childhood home in Russia inside a ruined Italian cathedral. It almost seems like a still image, until the dog slowly starts moving, and then all of a sudden, snow begins to fall over the entire landscape.
 
Nostalghia was the movie that got me interested in cinema; this shot had a lot to do with that. If you can put that clip up Sanjin, that would be fantastic.
 
not just a grab, but the entire shot.

ok, there is only one shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk

the big innovation of imagining the film screen as a 3D space. thanks, lumieres freres......

old tech meets new...someone oughta get out there and shoot this with a RED....
 
Trakovsky example video

Trakovsky example video

JasonMurphy said:
Nostalghia was the movie that got me interested in cinema; this shot had a lot to do with that. If you can put that clip up Sanjin, that would be fantastic.
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JasonMurphy you'll get it.

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The last Nostalgia film sequence.
 
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