It culminates in a spectacular row indoors, which Hogg brilliantly represents with a bravura extended shot, simply showing the mortified family group having to listen outside by the pool.
Mr. Lee bends image to music, truncating or extending shots to complement an ominous drumroll or a mournfully elongated trumpet phrase.
Mr. Gopalakrishnan has his own style, recognizable by the vivid use of colors, extended shots and close-ups, and a calm, unhurried pace, with striking imagery.
Mixing extended shots of snowy New England forests — Mr. Cisneros lives on a farm in New Hampshire — with computer-generated images of roller-coaster rides among alpine peaks, it somehow brings environmental activism, social communalism, the American sublime and Werner Herzog together in a haunting combination.
Extended grainy shots of sleeping John's belly button and gently breathing torso seemed disarmingly intimate.
McQueen traces his huffing, puffing odyssey with one of the most mesmerising extended tracking shots since Touch of Evil.
He conjures a fascinating vision of worlds within worlds, and his provocative camera style — extended tracking shots, crushing closeups, distorting angles, jolting edits — suggests the psychological derangement that results when simulation and reality converge.
Mr. Malick's influence also extends to shots of Kris and Jeff walking, whispering and touching that are not moored in a specific time but could be from the past, present or future.
Watching this show, we are transported to the corners themselves – the language, the feel of the scenes, the still camerawork and extended, lingering shots over significant cinematic motifs such as the pit sofa, radio cars, City Hall or the classrooms.
It also doubles as an intervalometer, making it possible to get those cool time lapse and extended exposure shots that never fail to draw the appreciation of photography fans.
