"It's so naturalistic that the moment feels almost documentarian."
"That sequence... one amazing piece of filmmaking."
"By revealing the girl through a slow pan, the film links the boy’s state of mind with hers, suggesting that the nature of the two characters’ trauma is essentially identical."
"This isn't just an action scene, this is storytelling."
"Every cut, every edit had a purpose and a flow to it."
"Cameron's action scenes have stakes, tension, emotion, and inventive staging."
"Shots like this with Paddington backlit by the doorway behind him make this so much more than just a kids movie."
"The shared visions between Rey and Kylo Ren... ensure that Rey and Ren have an evolving relationship."
"It's cinematic because you can picture it in your mind."
"The lengths they went to make sure that the scale of the hobbits versus the long shanks were believable."
"The film has already been blurring the lines separating fiction and reality."
"Opening shots and closing shots are arguably like the most important because they bring you into the fold and then while you're there right before you leave they're like by the way this is what this has been about the whole time."
"Marsellus Wallace's head turned towards Butch is a reference to the Hitchcock film Psycho."
"The whole movie looks like it may be a dream."
"He saw a unique form of cinematic storytelling."
"It showed and didn't tell and it was so much about the gay experience without telling you it was about that."
"Kubrick uses the heightened reality of cinema to illustrate the difficulty of life itself."
"This trailer was just cut so well." - Kristian Harloff
"As we’ve seen, wherever there is a zoom, there is Martin; and wherever Martin is, is where Lanthimos resides, watching the audience, whispering into our ears, and asking us..."
"The last shot with the Joker scene, like I suspected. It's more or less the last shot."
"They literally ended the film with the exact same shot they ended the trailer with."
"There's a strobe so that you see out the window of the train, one frame, the next frame, the next frame, and it makes a little movie."
"This is Cecilia waking up at the start of the film... we wanted it to be incredibly suspenseful and we wanted it to feel like he could wake up at any moment."
"Snyder stays on these people for 74 seconds so we can hear their song and briefly exist for a moment in their world."
"The opening sequence also flashes back to the scene from the first ant-man showing Hank and Janet's takedown of the rogue ICBM."
"The entirety of the game is done in a single shot."
"This scene, without dialogue, and in just a few seconds, reveals the core of Jesse's character."
"Up proves its power within the first 10 minutes. With just a few lines of dialogue and opening montage, it introduces us to the main character Carl and shows us the story of his life and love Ellie."
"In one shot we feel the intensity of the action, recognize the looming danger behind them, but don't lose our focus on the most important part: the characters."
"This 'Look Out' was actually a message for the audience that here comes the Spider-man."
"It's almost more exciting than if they did the hero shot."
"It blends Nolan's best traits into one which are his ability to tell stories cinematically in a unique way and his way of creating a visually immersive experience."
"It's a kind of filmmaker's language for a strong bow is being drawn."
"In a scene like this, it'd probably be about 20 to 30 cuts at the minimum in order to achieve the same feeling of this one take that's happening in the game."
"This hellish vision is bookended by Oppenheimer's tormented stare..."
"Everything we see in this opening tank is foreshadowing everything that happens later in the movie."
"I always find it a bit hard to make text and titles look really cool and cinematic, but I think this is one of those sure ways to make it really cool and natural and cinematic at the same time."
"I think this is a dream sequence. I think it's part of Bruce Wayne's nightmare."
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out, and that's what the director's role is."
"This movie does a great job of setting up the peril."
"Arthur's mental state slipping is also demonstrated by the way that he writes in the film."
"If the content of the movie isn't there, you can slap on all the best cinematography in the world and still not end up with a good movie."
"Scott's images always had depth, even if someone was pressed to a flat wall."
"The way that scenes transition from one to the next, the meticulous detail in color and lighting."
"We are pretending not to know and as those swirling Sands of Time clear into the main action of this film."
"The imagery of the red and blue flickering on her face... strongest hint of symbolism regarding her pull to the light."
"Ratchet's opening sequence especially tells us this story of Mildred's world turning upside down by actually tilting the frame at one point."
"Muybridge had brought the notion of a 24 frame per second perspective."
"At first, the song montages gave this movie character."
"I love the found footage aspect of this, this is so cool, it puts you right in there with them."
"The Shining is a great example of how you build up a horror movie with a slow build in tension."
"For me, I want to try and replicate a gimbal movement, a smooth push forward shot."
"It's not a sequel to one movie, it took all six movies and pulled from every piece."
"When Shuri decides to burn her funeral garments alone in her own ritual, we get flashbacks."
"The movie opens with a very similar self-contained sequence that is meant to reinstate our fear of Pennywise."
"The visuals at the beginning, when everybody collapses, are visually creepy."
"From this shot until the final moments in the film, an unwavering sense of dread permeates."
"They went above and beyond never in my life was I expecting them to do the dimension break from Dragon Ball super Broly to emphasize beam struggles that's that's Godlike there's there's no way to make that better than that like that is incredible"
"Slowly rotating around the animatronics...frozen in time almost."
"I wish they had like freeze-frame character names..."
"In 10 seconds he's out of frame right but look here past this door you'll if they play it long enough you'll see him jump down right on the other side of this door."
"Catch Me If You Can is basically a crime film stuck in a constant state of getaway."
"Lovely intimate blocking with a beautiful halo lighting on them both."
"The screen cutting to black here follows the same motif earlier about not answering questions."
"The facial expressions and the looks on all of the ape characters' faces really tell the story."
"Four times is super powerful, so it has the most cinematic feel to it."
"This specific effect comes from an older technique used in films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
"Honestly, this entire scene is kind of masterful as an example of character building."
"Many of these films incorporate aspects of relatability, they focus on digging horror out of more realistic situations."
"There's a fear of the unknown, right? And this movie takes full advantage of it."
"Everything was shot with a purpose."
"The importance of the gaze is manifested most clearly in cinema."
"You can no longer trust the film to show you reality because we share Danny's vision."
"The ending itself, through its use of time travel and slow motion, is more about rebuilding the city than it is about death and destruction."
"That awkward pause was more menacing than many of Hitchcock's finest works."
"Using lens flares strategically either to reveal something on or just the beginning impact of having like the glow of a flare reveal on your scene is very important."
"How important it is to take you through emotionally through the scene and where it leaves you for the next scene."
"Rashomon was remarkably original, implementing a brand new narrative structure telling stories within a story."
"They did a really good job of showing us that time was so slowed down."
"Shoot 24p if you want that cinematic look."
"That's how you use 3D, those ships, that's a... ending with the 2D, it's perfect."
"When he does the spider sense to take out the drones, they take all music away."
"For the Batman movies, Pattinson should just use his eyes under the cowl."
"The way that they use dialogue so sparingly and silence and setting the scene."
"They have a whole scene in reverse and you don't realize it's in reverse until halfway through it."