The audience also gets a good sense of the layout of the home—and if you’ve seen the movie, you know this becomes important later on. “Reservoir Dogs” (1992) This medium long shot example ...

Other examples of long takes can be found in other ... and aped by filmmakers to this day. One-shot sequences are more commonly found on film, but long takes have slowly and surely become more ...

It all cost a sizable chunk of the film’s estimated $30-million production budget and had to be shot in one day. That’s how long the extras were available, and that small time frame is what ...

A shot-reverse shot is a film editing technique that takes two separate ... but you can toggle between the two for as long as necessary. The back and forth of the shot-reverse shot allows ...

Méliès' A Trip to the Moon and Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou rank among the greatest short films, towering achievements in their ...

That combined sensibility on “Long Shot” pitches the film somewhere between irreverent ... to work against that whenever possible, for example in Fred Flarsky’s awakening to the concerns ...

When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Manohla Dargis “Long Shot” isn’t going to save the romantic comedy ...

“Long Shot” is a movie somewhat at war with itself, seeking to combine political satire with crude (in the mode of many Seth Rogen movies) romantic comedy. Both elements work in fits and ...

and is very much part of the big message behind this movie’s antecedents (“Notting Hill” meets “Dave” with some “VEEP” thrown in). While I did find that “Long Shot” tried to find ...

“Long Shot” thrives on its slow build ... uncomfortably sexual webcam blackmail scene, for example, is particularly jarring. Still, the film gives viewers plenty of chances to genuinely ...

and writers Liz Hannah and Dan Sterling (who also wrote Rogen’s film, The Interview… you know, the one that almost triggered a nuclear war). While Long Shot doesn’t threaten to destabilize ...