The greatest long tracking shots in Cinema
“In a director’s cinematic bag of tricks the long tracking shot is the boldest way of making a statement. It’s the flashiest and most attention-grabbing egotistical way of flexing one’s muscle. In most cases it’s a narcissistic maneuver, “look-at-me” filming technique, but rare ones, the best ones, serve to reflect and further the story in a way that can’t be reflected with traditional editing.”
Lots of great example clips from movies including Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, Scorsese’s Raging Bull, Chan Wook Park’s Oldboy, Robert Altman’s The Player, Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men and John Woo’s Hard Boiled.