Tag: Rope
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Thrillers Owe a Great Debt to Cary Grant
While Alfred Hitchcock is best known for the classic films of his late career, such as Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Vertigo, and Rope, Hitchcock had actually been making films since the 1920s. While the British films he made during the first two decades of his career are no less brilliant than his…
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The Longest Shots in Movies, From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Gravity’
Nothing draws the attention of cinephiles quite like a long, unbroken take of a shot. When a film masterfully executes an unbroken moving one-take shot, it forever belongs to the canon of film history. Some films, even ones going back to the 1940s, are built around a framework of the whole movie being done in…
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1917 review – Sam Mendes’s unblinking vision of the hell of war
Mendes’s first world war drama, filmed to appear as one continuous take, plunges the viewer into the trenches alongside two young British soldiers to breathless effectFor the opening of his 2015 Bond movie Spectre, director Sam Mendes mounted a memorable sequence set amid Mexico City’s day of the dead festival. In what appears to be…