{"id":9974,"date":"2010-03-29T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:11:56","slug":"deep-focus-long-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9974","title":{"rendered":"Deep focus: Long takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/scanners\/2010\/03\/deep_focus.html\">An amazing compilation from Jim Emerson of 8 great long takes<\/a>. Not to be missed.  I watched the clips before I read his breakdown of each clip below the video, and I suggest going that way, too &#8211; so you can experience the long takes fresh, and then go check out the commentary.  Some are well-known to me, others I had never even seen before &#8211; and I am now thinking of other long-takes in films (not just the obvious ones that everyone knows &#8211; but more <i>invisible<\/i> ones &#8211; ones that don&#8217;t so much call attention to themselves) &#8211; and what it is about them that work, when they do work.  For example, the long take on Candice Bergen&#8217;s face in <i>Carnal Knowledge<\/i> (I wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5395\">here<\/a>) as she laughs hysterically at the jokes being told by Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel, who are off-camera.  The camera never leaves her face.  She laughs so hard she is in tears.  It&#8217;s an amazing long take, and if it had been broken up, with cutaways to Nicholson and Garfunkel &#8211; it wouldn&#8217;t have had the same power or meaning.  They both are competing for her love and attention.  THEIR focus is only on her, and so should ours be &#8211; hence the camera never leaving her face.  That&#8217;s one of my favorite long takes.  Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/scanners\/2010\/03\/deep_focus.html\">Go check it out.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amazing compilation from Jim Emerson of 8 great long takes. Not to be missed. I watched the clips before I read his breakdown of each clip below the video, and I suggest going that way, too &#8211; so you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182545,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions\/182545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}