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Movement
Camera movement as storytelling — when it moves, why it moves, what it means
Films in this lens
Goodfellas (1990)
Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus
The Copacabana tracking shot is the most famous in American cinema. But here is what most people miss: the camera is not showing off. It is showing you what it FEELS like to be Henry Hill — the world…
Children of Men (2006)
Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki
Lubezki and Cuarón made a decision that changed modern cinema: the camera would never leave Theo's side. No coverage, no reverse shots, no escape. You experience the apocalypse exactly as he does — te…
Oldboy (2003)
Cinematography by Chung Chung-hoon
The corridor fight in Oldboy is shot as a side-scroller — the camera tracks laterally like a video game. It sounds absurd. But Park Chan-wook understood something: by removing depth, by flattening the…
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