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Likewise, the inky, nervily handheld cinematography creates similarly ambiguous shadows.
The handheld cinematography by Nicholas Proferes, despite its agility, has a sculptural relief that amplifies the sense of uneasy intimacy.
With its roiling, tempestuous, largely handheld cinematography, "Listen Up Philip" is a film of style that is, in its way, as distilled and abstracted and stylized as a movie by Wes Anderson.
The light weight of such cameras no doubt accounts for the ubiquity of handheld cinematography, though in too many titles this approach has become a lazy tool for directors who seem to think that tripod-free camerawork equates realism.
Be that as it may, Zhang pulls out lots of directorial stops: there are a number of bravura combat sequences (notably one in which a single Chinese soldier takes out an entire Japanese platoon), a gruesome scene outlining the (documented) nature of the Japanese sexual assaults on civilians, and tremendous handheld cinematography reflecting the girls' panic when the troops storm in.
Elegant camerawork such as cranes were used as the plot builds to the attempt on Hitler's life, and the second half is frantic with handheld cinematography as the plotters are hunted down.
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Writing for Vulture, Matt Patches highlighted the second season's loose, handheld-style cinematography – challenging for an animated series – and the "weird, wonderful", wildly imagined spirits fought by Korra; "a Kaiju parade with beasts that mirror velociraptors".
An aspect of the film criticized in numerous reviews was its handheld camerawork and cinematography.
The predominantly handheld camera work, with cinematography by Matthew Libatique, both maintains the sense of energy and, with the frame darting between characters, helps to parse the overlapping talk into the feeling of action.
For "Weddings and Babies," Engel did his own cinematography using a handheld camera, made to his specifications, that was outfitted to record synchronous sound — a major innovation that he deployed to substantial dramatic ends and that also plays an onscreen role in the story.
The cinematography by Lukas Ettlin is impressive, with grainy handheld footage imbuing the battle scenes with a surprising sense of realism.
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