Sentence examples for lengthy takes from inspiring English sources

That might change, though it's hard to believe that his movies, with their lengthy takes and generous silences, will ever attract a popular audience of any nationality.

For this study of the daily routine of an old man, a first world war veteran, John shot lengthy takes with a wide-angle lens.

Via Lubezki's sweeping widescreen lenses we find ourselves viscerally dragged through the wilderness, violent ambushes and life-threatening confrontations caught in superbly orchestrated lengthy takes, the camera following on foot, on horseback, through woods and plains, air and water, often without apparent edits.

His 1975 epic The Travelling Players, a mere 80 shots over 230 minutes, uses its lengthy takes to mess with our sense of space and time, as in one shot that begins in Nazi-occupied, second world war Greece and culminates, without a cut, several minutes and a few hundred yards down the same road, in prewar fascist Greece in 1939.

Some of the shots seem to last forever, and the lengthy takes allow us to see the moments of hesitation and retreat and lurching breakthrough: when Jesse and Celine reach boundary lines — should they say what they really feel? — they take a deep breath, pause, and abruptly plunge into candor.

(Iñárritu hides what few edits there are between the lengthy takes like a magician).

It is, therefore, not much of a surprise that both Schröder and his key coalition ally Joschka Fischer, Germany's Green foreign minister, have stressed that negotiations with Turkey will be lengthy, taking between 10 to 15 years.

Chen's letter is a detailed and lengthy take down of PolitiFact's analysis.

The remaining patients were divided into those whose treatment period complied with contemporary guidelines and those whose treatment was excessively lengthy, taking into account the drug regimen and the form of TB.

The lengthy shoot took its toll on the cast too.

A restaurant whose sole product is an expensive, lengthy, take-it-or-leave-it meal sets a dauntingly high bar for itself.