The reason it took me so long to make this post, even though there aren't very many movies listed, is because I was studying for the bar exam. I hope the above picture reflects that. Breaking News (2004) It opens with a long take in which the camera flies from person to person, location to location, and event to event. The way it slowly, carefully shuffles through everything worth paying attention to creates a sense of the camera's physicality, that moving it around is a burden. Most of the film isn't like that, though. Later on, the film becomes confined to an apartment building. It cuts between different floors that largely look the same. In stairwells, cops and criminals glare at each other through narrow gaps in the railings. At the same time, the cops are on a PR mission, selectively releasing footage of the chaos to the media, which we see in short vignettes. When the criminals catch on, they start to do the same. One could rea...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin