Long Takes
My friend’s blog Be Still Please pointed me to The Long Take, which has become a clearinghouse for cinema’s best long takes, though that entire 90+ minute Russian film (”Russian Ark”?) doesn’t exactly fit onto gootube.
I always thought the Keitel entry-scene from Mean Streets was the best, but the end of Antonioni’s “The Passenger” is its own kind of phenomenal. Here’s another, from Gus Van Sant, channeling Bela Tarr. The film speed changeover mid-dog-jump is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. (Looks too choppy on gootube, though.)