The Mother of all Long Takes

[Tripe]

Yeah and it's only not a single take due to technological constraints, if Hitchcock could have crammed the film necessary into a spool he would have.

You know that it wasn't really all one take....but it's so skillfully hidden that it doesn't matter. 

Oh yes I know, but he wanted it to be, and he couldn't get a camera that could take the amount of film needed. To think what he could have done with a digital camera.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Well, the thread starter's question has been answered, so let's hijack this thread to list our favorite long takes....

A few off the top of my head are:

The walk & talk at the beginning of Pulp Fiction (foot massage conversation).

The opening scene of The Player.

Oh yeah, and you gotta see this one from The Protector:

[OTC316]

Check out this one from Johnny To's "Breaking News". Sorry I couldn't find one with english subtitles.

         

[MrTorso]

One of my favorite longish takes is the hospital shoot out in John Woo's Hard Boiled. A nice 2-3 minute sequence with loads of squibs and gunfire and only one edit.

Spoiler

I also like Josh Becker's Running Time with Bruce Campbell that simulates a real time one take.

[Rude]

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Ah... we've made the jump from single-take films to regular old single-take shots. I have to go with the opening shot from Touch Of Evil as one of my all time favorites. I'll try searching out a YouTube clip or something later, for those who haven't seen it. Good stuff.

-Rude

[Trumpysgirl]

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Ah... we've made the jump from single-take films to regular old single-take shots. I have to go with the opening shot from Touch Of Evil as one of my all time favorites. I'll try searching out a YouTube clip or something later, for those who haven't seen it. Good stuff.

-Rude

I'm okay with this transition. Master shots are really great if you can pull them off.

[mrbasehart]

There's a similarly impressive long take in the French film, La Haine.

[Nunyerbiz]

The opening scene of The Player.

I'm sure I had seen long takes before in movies... but this was the first example of recognizing it when it happened without knowing ahead of time that it was coming. It's a pretty good movie overall to boot....

[Trumpysgirl]

I know you all don't enjoy Firefly, but I've always loved the opening scene from the movie Serenity

For some reason it's in French, but still fun to watch.

[Doctor Who?]

I just watched the 1996 version of Hamlet and it had some really long takes in it.