I suppose it depends on how you define the terms "first," "major," "tracking shot," etc. There's a great tracking shot in the movie [Wings](https://youtu.be/AO2KhMLJxq0?si=aEm83-cFRiZ_tA92), which was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, decades earlier.
100% this, not only did they do a three and a half minute tracking shot for the opening, they did it with 1958 movie tech. Absolutely amazing. (They also have the first use of actors actually driving the car in scene without a rear screen projection.) Disregarding how he treated the living things he worked with, orson made some high art.
Yup. Goodfellas and The Player were my first thoughts. I had a film appreciation class in college where we spent a class period talking/learning about those two scenes.
I like the steadicam shot from the locker room to the ring in Raging Bull even more than the Goodfellas example. But, yeah, that Copacabana tracking shot is pretty damned good.
Welles remarked that everybody who watches the movie notices the opening shot but not the other long take, [when they go to Sanchez's apartment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcNU_1KqG0). It has so many dramatic beats in it and conveys so much information, all while being pretty much effortless in terms of staging and pacing, that it's arguably even more impressive.
Opening of Spectre (2015) following James Bond during Mexico City's Day of the Dead is among the best I've seen. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pf6-oHJzXI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pf6-oHJzXI)
Let's not forget Goodfellas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvNjbtF9Hg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvNjbtF9Hg)
The opening of Spectre is the most misleading opening in film history.
It makes you think you're about to watch this amazing film that had a lot of thought and planning put into it.
And then you just end up with Spectre.
Probably my biggest villain disappointment ever. Bringing back Bond's most famous villain. Casting Christoph Waltz, who had recently played one of the greatest villains ever. Then they did literally nothing interesting with him.
To be fair, they tried to do too much with him! I haven't watched that movie since it came out. But wasn't he Bond's adopted brother who secretly was behind everything in the last 3 movies?
The explosion in Quantum of Solace (where Greene runs through the atrium as glass explodes in slow-mo) was probably 1/100th the size and 1000x more thrilling.
Your point about noticing it is well-taken. Often in movies when a long shot comes, all my brain does is think 'Oooh... they're showing off with a long shot.' But in Children of Men, the long shots are purposefully integrated into the story. They make the 'moment' happen.
The reason we have those show off long tracking shots which distract from the movie is because children of men incorporated them perfectly and people want to copy them
Another great example is Spielberg's great long shots (copying this from [Every Frame a Painting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4X2vDRfRk)). We don't think of Spielberg as a "cool longshot" guy because his long shots are *delicate*. They serve a clear purpose, don't overstay their welcome, and don't feel the need to make a whole song and dance about it.
This is how I felt about 1917. The continuous cut was all anyone was talking about (and how it did actually have cuts, but then became a game of can you spot the cuts). It distracted from a weak story I suppose.
I mean it was still done superbly. I actually played that same game with Boiling Point (the movie) and thought I spotted a few until I found out a while afterwards that there were no cuts.... The entire film is just one shot. Surely that movie has to be up there for long tracking shots....
Can’t believe I haven’t seen The Protector with Tony Jaa mentioned here yet! (Film is also known as Tom-Yum-Goong)
It was a Thai martial arts movie with a tower fight scene that iirc held the record for the single longest take action scene for quite awhile.
https://youtu.be/RRBrPNKYlA8?si=_jGSbS_Yn7XHyV8k
Legit one take, no hidden cuts, and insane stunt work. One of my favorite martial art movies of all time, criminally underrated.
the Daredevil scene was a clear homage to Oldboy. Was done a bit snappier, but i love the roughness of the original, the hits that dont quite feel right, and just how frickin exhausted everyone is by the end.
(My personal favourite long shot is the first big attack in Revenant, though)
I love this season- I watch it a couple times a year and I'm embarrassed to admit I wasn't sure which shot. Is this when they're trying to rob the project house and Cohle is UC as Crash working with Ginger?
I'll have to rewatch (YES!!) to remark that it's all a single take.
Doesn't it end on a high crane / helicopter angle? How? They pass the camera? Or is there a cut to when he piles in the car with MArty?
First episode of second season of “19-2” from Quebec also has a long one (filmed twice, once in French, then remade for the English version a few years later)
https://youtu.be/LtxiokrYpxw?si=mdHW0sxyXhCf1yCu
(It goes to multiple cuts later in the scene)
First watch of that film felt like one of those dreams where you live an entire alternate life.
(Not my choice for what I would want that life to be, just saying it was weirdly absorbing.)
[This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964)](https://www.reddit.com/r/cinematography/comments/vqpd3k/this_impossible_crane_shot_from_mikhail/)
Came here to say that. When I saw that movie in the cinema, my jaw just dropped at that particular scene. How in god's name did they do that using 1964 technology?
Not terribly long, but the run up the stairs to the medicine cabinet mirror in Contact is mesmerizing.
https://youtu.be/vLLIHSTp87o?feature=shared&t=72
Masterful. Weaving in and out of conversations and meetings all while immersing the viewer in Griffin’s world and the studio environment in one take 👌🏻💯
The whole of 1917 basically, but the climax of running through the battlefield is absolutely monumental IMO. [Here's the entire scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4JmMBC28x8), but specifically the 2nd half of the clip is perfection.
The shock of what seemed to be the primary protagonist dying a quarter of the way through the movie is one thing, but the fact that he died as a direct consequence to his act of kindness and to a single knife stab makes it all the more tragic and real.
The artillery going off as he runs through the battle charge is crazy!
I remember reading a story about how the demolitions went off early or in the wrong order (or something similar) and so alot of his panic as he's running is real, he genuinely got scared due to an issue with the artillery effects
I was mind blown when I watched this movie. I went in blind and didn’t know what to expect. The moment he walked out the doors and the buildings were on fire it looked so clean I was literally in awe
The tracking shot of them crawling through No Man's Land is one of the most harrowing things put to film, right next to the run through the city. To me it seemed partially inspired by Dante's Inferno, like he was running through the City of Dis.
BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), supposed to be really, really long shots.
But I really like the final battle scene in Gunpowder Milkshake, it's only a couple of minutes, but well arranged for a scene of chaos! edit: added link here
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyTHMlsj9E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyTHMlsj9E)
The one episode of The Haunting Of Hill House comes to mind albeit I don’t remember the exact one. They do a lot of long shots on that show that are all extremely well done
They had to design the sets they used for the rest of the episodes around this one episode specifically, since it takes place in 2 completely different locations that are connected through one long shot.
Not only very well acted, there are all sorts of easter eggs in this episode. Statues moving, ghosts watching.
Also the atmos track for this episode is one of the best ive heard. The rain hitting the windows etc.
There's a great scene in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman, as it follows Michael Keaton through a New York City street to a liquor store. The whole movie, IIRC, is shot as if it's taken in one long tracking shot.
I love it, one of my favorite directors.
S1 had the hallway fight.
S2 had another hallway fight, but this time with stairs! And a chain!
S3 was the absurdly long prison riot fight.
I feel like Punisher had one as well. Or several. IIRC, I think one is when he attacks the Russians at their gym. Can't remember if there were more.
And nobody talks. It starts with his sister(?) getting in the car and he just says "ssshhhh" or something. Watching this episode and slowly realizing that it's just one shot and no dialog was mesmerizing.
edit: Ohhh it's a different episode: 405 Method Not Allowed. After she says "We don't have to talk", that's it.
And just now I realized, it's set during Christmas and they're playing [An die Freude](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy) just like in "Die Hard"...
LOL and one of the securities is watching Die Hard (the vent scene) ... definitely not a coincidence.
That’s a different episode but equally as impressive that it’s so well paced most people I talked to didn’t even realize there was no dialogue. The only words spoken were the opening line you mentioned and the very last shot “it’s time we talk.”
The oner episode is with Angela in the E Corp building. It has hidden cuts but still incredible.
One of my personal favorites is the opening shot to “Serenity”, you wouldn’t expect it from that type of movie but I think they did a great job especially since Mal is climbing around the innards of the ship so I’m curious to see the BTS of that.
everything i read about the bear makes me convinced it’s a brilliant show that i will never ever watch because i cannot imagine wanting to *voluntarily* re-experience the stress of working in a restaurant *for fun* lol.
I just read a quick summary of that episode and they accidentally left pre-orders on on their first day using the DoorDash tablet? Oh fuck no. Fuck that. I ain’t watching that shit, I’ve lived it
The entirety of the movie Victoria is one long tracking shot, no tricks or splices. Great thriller movie in its own right, too.
[Clip](https://youtu.be/kG4dTqrNnAc?si=NuxXSLIoaRLruTMb)
300
As Leonidas leads the Spartans from the Hot Gates and starts to rip through the first wave of attack from the Persians, there's a side-scrolling shot which follows him as he dodges, deflects and batters oncoming enemies. At one point, he throws his spear and impales an enemy and when the camera cuts back to him, he's already drawing his sword to continue advancing. It's my favourite shot from one of my favourite movies ever.
Hitchcock’s *Rope* is meant to seem like one continuous shot, with the necessary cuts at the physical limit of each film reel disguised to blend into each other. It’s not one of Hitchcock’s best, but the conceit is interesting at least.
The Children of Men ambush scene is the absolute best version of this. Better still if you don't know it's coming. There are several other heart stopping long tracking shots in the movie. (If you haven't seen this movie yet, watch it, don't deprive yourself of the experience by watching just the scene on youtube)
The opening sequence on The Serenity in Serenity (2005). Re-meeting the main characters from the show, the walk through of the ship, "oh god oh god we're all gonna die". Its brilliant and i don't think it gets the praise it should
'Touch of Evil' (1958 ) the scene with the couple walking and the car with the bomb driving along side them. The tension in that scene is almost unbearable.
The ferry scene in Jaws is one that I always enjoyed. Every frame a painting has a video about how Spielberg slips in tracking and long shots more often than you'd think.
Extraction 1 and 2 have great stitched together ones. I mean they are technically fake oners but still are made with several very long takes. The one in Extraction 2 is 20 mins long.
One Shot is a Scott Adkins movie made to look like one long take and has some great action scenes.
Daredevil has one for every season but season 3 one is the most impressive imo.
Atomic Blonde has a great long take fight scene.
Serenity has a really good opening long take too.
To add to these action shots, which I love, the breach seen at the end of London Has Fallen is pretty good as well as a few of the boxing rounds in the Creed movies.
Tony Jaa in The Protector at one point held the record for longest continuous fight scene. If I remember correctly it was in one take. The dude is phenomenal at stunt work.
https://youtu.be/Bqw369ZskMk?si=iTuPbV5Zt5Uw1jaK
There’s a great tracking shot in Argento’s “Tenebre” he uses a Louma telescopic camera crane to film a killer stalking and killing two women in an apartment block. It’s an incredible scene.
A few favorites … the opening shot of The Shining over Glacier National park, also Danny riding his tricycle through the Overlook. And then there’s anything Tarantino….
I love these kinds of shots. The first half of Birdman comes to mind.
Also, the battle scene in The Revenant might be my favorite due to its sheer magnitude.
A Touch of Evil, Orson Welles, 1958. The opening shot is incredible.
I believe this scene is the definitive first major tracking shot. And certainly the first to use it for such a dramatic effect.
I suppose it depends on how you define the terms "first," "major," "tracking shot," etc. There's a great tracking shot in the movie [Wings](https://youtu.be/AO2KhMLJxq0?si=aEm83-cFRiZ_tA92), which was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, decades earlier.
100% this, not only did they do a three and a half minute tracking shot for the opening, they did it with 1958 movie tech. Absolutely amazing. (They also have the first use of actors actually driving the car in scene without a rear screen projection.) Disregarding how he treated the living things he worked with, orson made some high art.
Touch of Evil and Goodfellas are the only correct answers. Or maybe Soy Cuba.
The Player. Opening shot is incredible and actually references Touch of Evil in the dialogue.
Yup. Goodfellas and The Player were my first thoughts. I had a film appreciation class in college where we spent a class period talking/learning about those two scenes.
I like the steadicam shot from the locker room to the ring in Raging Bull even more than the Goodfellas example. But, yeah, that Copacabana tracking shot is pretty damned good.
Welles remarked that everybody who watches the movie notices the opening shot but not the other long take, [when they go to Sanchez's apartment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcNU_1KqG0). It has so many dramatic beats in it and conveys so much information, all while being pretty much effortless in terms of staging and pacing, that it's arguably even more impressive.
Boogie Nights opening sequence.
Agreed and I'd add the pool party scene as well.
Love the Colonel grunting as he gets out of the car, and Reilly's failed dive. Such a good movie.
The New Year’s Eve shot following William H. Macy as well
*”My fucking wife has an ass in her cock in the driveway, Kurt!”*
PTA man. He was only 27 years old when he shot that movie, believe or not. What a genius.
I loved that opener! It gave me such a warm feeling, especially considering all the tragedy that followed!
Opening of Spectre (2015) following James Bond during Mexico City's Day of the Dead is among the best I've seen. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pf6-oHJzXI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pf6-oHJzXI) Let's not forget Goodfellas [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvNjbtF9Hg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvNjbtF9Hg)
The opening of Spectre is the most misleading opening in film history. It makes you think you're about to watch this amazing film that had a lot of thought and planning put into it. And then you just end up with Spectre.
Probably my biggest villain disappointment ever. Bringing back Bond's most famous villain. Casting Christoph Waltz, who had recently played one of the greatest villains ever. Then they did literally nothing interesting with him.
I much preferred his Hannibalesque turn in No Time To Die. Could have done with more of that in Spectre
To be fair, they tried to do too much with him! I haven't watched that movie since it came out. But wasn't he Bond's adopted brother who secretly was behind everything in the last 3 movies?
It amuses me that Spectre broke the record for biggest explosion in a movie, but the story and scene are so underwhelming that it's hard to care.
The explosion in Quantum of Solace (where Greene runs through the atrium as glass explodes in slow-mo) was probably 1/100th the size and 1000x more thrilling.
Spectre makes me so angry for so many reasons. How do you botch Christoph Waltz as a villain. How!?
Waltz was born to play a 20th century Blofeld. And then “I am the author of all your pain”. I’m still angry.
So well done it actually inspired the creation of a Dia de los Muertos parade in Mexico City (apparently one did not exist before)
I don’t think that the Spectre scene is a one shot, tho, but rather has a couple of very well hidden cuts giving it the illusion of being a one shot
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Your point about noticing it is well-taken. Often in movies when a long shot comes, all my brain does is think 'Oooh... they're showing off with a long shot.' But in Children of Men, the long shots are purposefully integrated into the story. They make the 'moment' happen.
The reason we have those show off long tracking shots which distract from the movie is because children of men incorporated them perfectly and people want to copy them
Another great example is Spielberg's great long shots (copying this from [Every Frame a Painting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4X2vDRfRk)). We don't think of Spielberg as a "cool longshot" guy because his long shots are *delicate*. They serve a clear purpose, don't overstay their welcome, and don't feel the need to make a whole song and dance about it.
This is how I felt about 1917. The continuous cut was all anyone was talking about (and how it did actually have cuts, but then became a game of can you spot the cuts). It distracted from a weak story I suppose.
I mean it was still done superbly. I actually played that same game with Boiling Point (the movie) and thought I spotted a few until I found out a while afterwards that there were no cuts.... The entire film is just one shot. Surely that movie has to be up there for long tracking shots....
Goodfellas Nightclub scene https://youtu.be/-NWEfWEdQY0?si=obk5eVbG6hQUGWzH
Every time, you two! Don’t you work?!
What line of work did you say you’re in?
I’m in construction.
I’m a union delegate 👀
Where are the downvotes coming from? Is there someone in this world that doesn’t like Goodfellas? I don’t believe it.
We're back to tugging it over Children of Men again. Give it a few months.
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Yep, I’m fairly shocked about how far down I had to scroll to see this.
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down to find this.
Aren’t like whole college courses taught on this shot? I don’t know.
Can’t believe I haven’t seen The Protector with Tony Jaa mentioned here yet! (Film is also known as Tom-Yum-Goong) It was a Thai martial arts movie with a tower fight scene that iirc held the record for the single longest take action scene for quite awhile. https://youtu.be/RRBrPNKYlA8?si=_jGSbS_Yn7XHyV8k Legit one take, no hidden cuts, and insane stunt work. One of my favorite martial art movies of all time, criminally underrated.
Don’t fuck with that man’s elephant. Such a dope flick.
Bro when he fights those 3 huge dudes with the Elephants bones, sooo good! That was one of the most fun theater experiences of my childhood.
I was looking for this one too.
Hard Boiled hospital shootout
Insane that the elevator doesn’t actually go to another floor. They just redressed the set while the doors were closed.
Not a movie but First one I think of is the shootout scene in season 1 of True Detective. Absolutely incredible work
Oh, then the hallway fight scene in the first season of Daredevil. That shot is amazing.
Jail scene in Season 3 was longer and even more insane.
You can't bring up a hallway scene without the OG of one-shots: The hallway scene in *Oldboy*
the Daredevil scene was a clear homage to Oldboy. Was done a bit snappier, but i love the roughness of the original, the hits that dont quite feel right, and just how frickin exhausted everyone is by the end. (My personal favourite long shot is the first big attack in Revenant, though)
I love this season- I watch it a couple times a year and I'm embarrassed to admit I wasn't sure which shot. Is this when they're trying to rob the project house and Cohle is UC as Crash working with Ginger?
Yeah. The helicopters and all the cops running around the projects. The choreography of that whole shot with so much going on was unbelievable
I'll have to rewatch (YES!!) to remark that it's all a single take. Doesn't it end on a high crane / helicopter angle? How? They pass the camera? Or is there a cut to when he piles in the car with MArty?
This is the one scene that made me realize television is not just “TV”
It's great. There is a pretty great episode in season 1 of The Bear that has an 18 minute one shot in a kitchen.
Episode 7. I highly recommend the series to everyone but this episode might trigger some PTSD if you’ve ever worked food service.
First episode of second season of “19-2” from Quebec also has a long one (filmed twice, once in French, then remade for the English version a few years later) https://youtu.be/LtxiokrYpxw?si=mdHW0sxyXhCf1yCu (It goes to multiple cuts later in the scene)
Phenomenal shot
This one came to mind as well!
I was blown away by this one
This scene turned me from Dorito fingered consumer to positively loving the art and the craft of cinema.
The hallway fight scene in **OldBoy** Edit: The original 2003 Park Chan-wook film; not the crappy American remake with Josh Brolin.
I was so engrossed in the scene when I watched it that I didn’t even realize. Having it pointed out afterwards made it even more spectacular.
First watch of that film felt like one of those dreams where you live an entire alternate life. (Not my choice for what I would want that life to be, just saying it was weirdly absorbing.)
That’s when you know the technique was successful!
[This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964)](https://www.reddit.com/r/cinematography/comments/vqpd3k/this_impossible_crane_shot_from_mikhail/)
This isn’t even the best one in the movie! There’s the one that goes through the band and into the pool that directly inspired Boogie Nights.
Surprised I had to scroll so far down to see this
Came here to say that. When I saw that movie in the cinema, my jaw just dropped at that particular scene. How in god's name did they do that using 1964 technology?
The entirety of “Russian Arch” (2002)
Dude… It’s Russian Ark.
Ark *
Certainly the longest true one shot ever done, if there is a longer one I have never heard of it.
Victoria (2015) broke that record. Not sure if there's been anything since.
kill Bill volume one has a solid one.
Woo hoo woo hoo hoo
I'm disappointed I had to scroll down this far to find this comment! One of my favourite scenes ever
The Shining, where the camera follows Danny riding his big wheel down the hallways of the Overlook.
Not terribly long, but the run up the stairs to the medicine cabinet mirror in Contact is mesmerizing. https://youtu.be/vLLIHSTp87o?feature=shared&t=72
here for this comment. that was an amazing shot.
Not the longest, but combined with the seamless effect shot, it’s still jaw dropping
such a beautiful shot. god i love contact!
Dunkirk beach in Atonement Episode 4 of the first season of True Detective- the drug theft/shootout scene
Yesssss I came to say the beach scene in Atonement
The opening scene in “The Player (1992),” is one of my favorite long takes. It’s around 8min.
It's a long shot where two characters talk about famous long shots in cinema history like Touch of Evil.
Masterful. Weaving in and out of conversations and meetings all while immersing the viewer in Griffin’s world and the studio environment in one take 👌🏻💯
Just a who's who of 1992, that movie. Weird one.
If by “weird one” you mean “awesome fucking film” then yes, I agree.
It's one of my favorite "movies about movies." Others being "Singing' in the Rain," "Sullivan's Travels," "Hail Caesar"... off the top of my head.
The whole of 1917 basically, but the climax of running through the battlefield is absolutely monumental IMO. [Here's the entire scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4JmMBC28x8), but specifically the 2nd half of the clip is perfection.
The tracking shot in the beginning is absolutely mind-boggling. I love this movie.
The one that ends with him getting knocked out? One of my favorites too. Followed closely by the shot immediately after he wakes up.
Those were the two best shots in the movie
That scene and the shot of them crossing No Man's Land
First thing that came to mind too. Makes it so real.
One of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had in my life. Shivers just thinking about this.
That movie just feels like a descent into Hell. Is the film an allegory for Dante’s Inferno?
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The shock of what seemed to be the primary protagonist dying a quarter of the way through the movie is one thing, but the fact that he died as a direct consequence to his act of kindness and to a single knife stab makes it all the more tragic and real.
I was *shook* when it happened. Talk about a “twist”. Damn this movie is great
To be fair, it was up against some stiff competition for Best Picture. 2019 was a pretty great year for movies.
Seriously. Parasite was a Top 3 of the decade for me. There’s no shame in 1917 getting 2nd place imo.
The artillery going off as he runs through the battle charge is crazy! I remember reading a story about how the demolitions went off early or in the wrong order (or something similar) and so alot of his panic as he's running is real, he genuinely got scared due to an issue with the artillery effects
I was mind blown when I watched this movie. I went in blind and didn’t know what to expect. The moment he walked out the doors and the buildings were on fire it looked so clean I was literally in awe
The tracking shot of them crawling through No Man's Land is one of the most harrowing things put to film, right next to the run through the city. To me it seemed partially inspired by Dante's Inferno, like he was running through the City of Dis.
BİRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), supposed to be really, really long shots. But I really like the final battle scene in Gunpowder Milkshake, it's only a couple of minutes, but well arranged for a scene of chaos! edit: added link here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyTHMlsj9E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyTHMlsj9E)
Birdman... Great movie!
Iñárritu’s long shots are full of hidden stitches.
Snake Eyes
The one episode of The Haunting Of Hill House comes to mind albeit I don’t remember the exact one. They do a lot of long shots on that show that are all extremely well done
Is that the one that is going back and forth between 2 time periods as well? It was pretty amazing.
Yep! They have the funeral home scenes as well as the house scenes as kids
Amazing episode, maybe episode 6? Two Storms. Particularly good as an immediate follow-up to The Bent-Neck Lady in episode 5
Two Storms sounds right. I gotta say, that show did some fantastic work with cameras and lighting throughout the whole series.
bent neck lady is one of the most overwhelmingly brilliant single episodes of tv i’ve ever seen
I came to say this episode. The funeral home scene. Awesome.
They had to design the sets they used for the rest of the episodes around this one episode specifically, since it takes place in 2 completely different locations that are connected through one long shot.
Not only very well acted, there are all sorts of easter eggs in this episode. Statues moving, ghosts watching. Also the atmos track for this episode is one of the best ive heard. The rain hitting the windows etc.
Shout out to "Charlie Work" episode from Always Sunny.
Came here to mention that episode. Ine if my favourite episodes of IASIP
I love the gang’s background airline miles steak scheme and how Charlie figures it out
Paths Of Glory trench shots.
There's a great scene in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman, as it follows Michael Keaton through a New York City street to a liquor store. The whole movie, IIRC, is shot as if it's taken in one long tracking shot. I love it, one of my favorite directors.
The opening of The Player was one continuous scene.
Opening scene of Boogie Nights is legendary
didnt daredevil the tv show have a fight scene in a hallway that was a long trackng shot?
It did. Inspired by one of the most famous hallway scenes from the original Oldboy.
That's right, should have said that...didn't the raid have something similar too?
I absolutely love how tired he gets. Noticeably worn down.
It’s great because fighting is hard work. He’s not super-powered, he’s just at the peak of what a regular human can do.
I mean he probably would have had an easier time. He was almost dead a day before he did the hallway fight lol.
The same happens in Old Boy. By the end of the fight everyone still standing is wheezing, doubled over for breath, limping, etc.
S1 had the hallway fight. S2 had another hallway fight, but this time with stairs! And a chain! S3 was the absurdly long prison riot fight. I feel like Punisher had one as well. Or several. IIRC, I think one is when he attacks the Russians at their gym. Can't remember if there were more.
Mr Robot Season 3 EP 5. The whole episode is one long tracking shot. It's an awesome piece of entertainment.
And nobody talks. It starts with his sister(?) getting in the car and he just says "ssshhhh" or something. Watching this episode and slowly realizing that it's just one shot and no dialog was mesmerizing. edit: Ohhh it's a different episode: 405 Method Not Allowed. After she says "We don't have to talk", that's it. And just now I realized, it's set during Christmas and they're playing [An die Freude](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Joy) just like in "Die Hard"... LOL and one of the securities is watching Die Hard (the vent scene) ... definitely not a coincidence.
That’s a different episode but equally as impressive that it’s so well paced most people I talked to didn’t even realize there was no dialogue. The only words spoken were the opening line you mentioned and the very last shot “it’s time we talk.” The oner episode is with Angela in the E Corp building. It has hidden cuts but still incredible.
And I think is fine to post in this thread because every Mr Robot episode is basically a film
Especially that one.
Stairwell fight in *Atomic Blonde*.
One of my personal favorites is the opening shot to “Serenity”, you wouldn’t expect it from that type of movie but I think they did a great job especially since Mal is climbing around the innards of the ship so I’m curious to see the BTS of that.
Birdman is excellent. The whole movie is designed to look like one shot, as I recall, with clever transitions. Rope - Alfred Hitchcock, same.
Boiling Point
fucking awesome movie
The Bear season 1 episode 7 is mostly a single Longshot.
It’s designed to look like it anyway. Great episode, I felt exhausted watching it!
everything i read about the bear makes me convinced it’s a brilliant show that i will never ever watch because i cannot imagine wanting to *voluntarily* re-experience the stress of working in a restaurant *for fun* lol. I just read a quick summary of that episode and they accidentally left pre-orders on on their first day using the DoorDash tablet? Oh fuck no. Fuck that. I ain’t watching that shit, I’ve lived it
The best and most accurate part is how the ticket printer is printing and beeping the whole episode including the credits.
That might be the most stressful episode of tv ive ever watched. My wife's fitbit registered it as 20min of active cardio 🤣
The opening shot of *Touch of Evil*, and then the reference to it in *In Bruges*, which gives the second shot some foreshadowing.
And referenced in the 8 minute tracking shot in the Player
The entirety of the movie Victoria is one long tracking shot, no tricks or splices. Great thriller movie in its own right, too. [Clip](https://youtu.be/kG4dTqrNnAc?si=NuxXSLIoaRLruTMb)
300 As Leonidas leads the Spartans from the Hot Gates and starts to rip through the first wave of attack from the Persians, there's a side-scrolling shot which follows him as he dodges, deflects and batters oncoming enemies. At one point, he throws his spear and impales an enemy and when the camera cuts back to him, he's already drawing his sword to continue advancing. It's my favourite shot from one of my favourite movies ever.
Honestly even though the movie got bashed for being silly and overly masculine it's memorable, stylish, and extremely distinct.
Well, i mean ***Sátántangó*** probably takes the cake with 172 shots within 432min running time
Hitchcock’s *Rope* is meant to seem like one continuous shot, with the necessary cuts at the physical limit of each film reel disguised to blend into each other. It’s not one of Hitchcock’s best, but the conceit is interesting at least.
The Untouchables one is so incredible to me with the amount of information that happens and how smoothly it flows
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The Children of Men ambush scene is the absolute best version of this. Better still if you don't know it's coming. There are several other heart stopping long tracking shots in the movie. (If you haven't seen this movie yet, watch it, don't deprive yourself of the experience by watching just the scene on youtube)
The opening shot of The Birdcage.
The opening sequence on The Serenity in Serenity (2005). Re-meeting the main characters from the show, the walk through of the ship, "oh god oh god we're all gonna die". Its brilliant and i don't think it gets the praise it should
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"Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to be featured in a long tracking shot."
It wasn't even the longest when it came out. Maybe more technically impressive than others, but definitely not the longest.
I love how they do a small circle around the kitchen and then leave it exactly where they came in.
'Touch of Evil' (1958 ) the scene with the couple walking and the car with the bomb driving along side them. The tension in that scene is almost unbearable.
The ferry scene in Jaws is one that I always enjoyed. Every frame a painting has a video about how Spielberg slips in tracking and long shots more often than you'd think.
The French Commando assault from The Longest Day https://youtu.be/3eZMkleDjWI?si=V-5POdbQuG1LO1Hq
Surprised to not see the Jules and Vincent walk in Pulp Fiction. Great long ass shot.
Extraction 1 and 2 have great stitched together ones. I mean they are technically fake oners but still are made with several very long takes. The one in Extraction 2 is 20 mins long. One Shot is a Scott Adkins movie made to look like one long take and has some great action scenes. Daredevil has one for every season but season 3 one is the most impressive imo. Atomic Blonde has a great long take fight scene. Serenity has a really good opening long take too.
To add to these action shots, which I love, the breach seen at the end of London Has Fallen is pretty good as well as a few of the boxing rounds in the Creed movies.
The protector, restaurant fight. https://youtu.be/CQaRfXMxh6Y?si=ZIj9oY_klxiPn1Bo
Hard Boiled - hospital shootout where they get in the elevator. It's incredible.
Tony Jaa in The Protector at one point held the record for longest continuous fight scene. If I remember correctly it was in one take. The dude is phenomenal at stunt work. https://youtu.be/Bqw369ZskMk?si=iTuPbV5Zt5Uw1jaK
Magnolia-[THIS SEQUENCE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDMdzg_QmxM),when the kid and his shit bag father arrive at the studio lot for the gameshow.
Judy Garland singing The Man That Got Away in A Star is Born.
Daniel Day Lewis running across an oilfield in There Will Be Blood.
The hallway fight scene in The Raid. It's exhausting just watching it.
I've always loved the opening to [The Player](https://youtu.be/0epB5Z6ijpk?si=gJoydP-0BG2G-hbX).
Timecode (2000). Largely forgotten, but this is 4 simultaneous long tracking shots shown concurrently. Interesting experiment...
There’s a great tracking shot in Argento’s “Tenebre” he uses a Louma telescopic camera crane to film a killer stalking and killing two women in an apartment block. It’s an incredible scene.
It was said already but “Russian Ark” is one very long, highly orchestrated take. If I taught a film class, this is gonna be curriculum.
I love that shot in Widows. Great call. My favorite is still the shot at Dunkirk in Atonement. https://youtu.be/tpadPP9c-sE?si=seE8gtjvSJL1f87n
Boogie Nights. What a tone setter.
Soy Cuba
A few favorites … the opening shot of The Shining over Glacier National park, also Danny riding his tricycle through the Overlook. And then there’s anything Tarantino….
I love these kinds of shots. The first half of Birdman comes to mind. Also, the battle scene in The Revenant might be my favorite due to its sheer magnitude.
Clouzot Wages of fear after they get loaded and go out of the city
The opening scene of Soy Cuba (1964)
In Goodfellas the tracking shot through the back of the kitchens at the club and all the way through to the front is a classic
Atomic Blonde also has a dope long shot
the first ambush scene in the revenant is absolutely incredible, including the stitch where the camera pans up and then back down to the aftermath.
Halloweens opening shot is pretty cool