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I had to post this, even though it's not a shot or really even from a movie.  But it's by movie makers and a total new application of one of the first technologies ever to show a motion picture, the zoetrope.  (Not sure if the Pixarians are the first to do this, but it has to be

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The stuff I found for today's post is awesome, complete with multi-media bonus features that really demonstrate the brilliance of Scorsese's work here.  (As with Spielberg, I could fill an entire blog just with shots by Scorsese.) Often times when a powerful, economical staging goes down before my eyes, I ask myself, "How the hell does the brain come

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Tom Hooper (director of HBO's His Dark Materials, which in fact does not use these types of negative-space compositions) got a lot of use of oblique camera angles in this movie as well as in HBO's John Adams. In both cases, Hooper used them arguably on point thematically. Watching His Dark Materials, it's not hard to imagine

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Of course not all incredibly effective shots are oners. This one is the culmination of a series of shots masterfully edited. And you can't talk about masterful editing without talking about David Lean. He began his career as an editor (at one point was the highest paid editor in England), eventually transitioning to directing with the help