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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A certain number (132) of herrings.
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Examples
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Albert indicated he and Allen were interested in evoking some of the great long-take scenes in movie history, but wanted this sequence to be their own.
Collider Goes to the Set of THE BOOK OF ELI – Collider.com 2009
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Update, 5/29: "With its long-take choreography and low-key naturalism, 4 Months unavoidably evokes The Death of Mr Lazarescu (both films were shot by Oleg Mutu), but, lacking the universality and metaphysical ambitions of Cristi Puiu's film, can't help suffering in comparison," writes Dennis Lim at IFC News.
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In the end, there is a tad too much long-take Koyaanisqatsi-esque live action industrial horror footage and not enough exploration of Burtynsky's art, technique and philosophy.
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But Daniel Kasman finds that the "fascinating combination of a blinkered, limited narrative and an immersive long-take aesthetic is a gripping and highly intense experiment in mainstream political filmmaking."
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Sweden's Roy Andersson ( "You, the Living") - Mr. Costa works in a concentrated, long-take style.
NYT > Home Page By DAVE KEHR 2010
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Sweden's Roy Andersson ( "You, the Living") - Mr. Costa works in a concentrated, long-take style.
NYT > Home Page By DAVE KEHR 2010
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The familiar Iranian-style minimalist long-take is still much in evidence, but nothing quite jells in the new film, and audiences will wait in vain for a satisfying emotional, political or thematic payoff.
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Surely Jung must understand that, given his background as film critic and editor of Kino magazine, though he clearly favors the long-take, slow-build of such Asian auteurs as Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao-hsien (filling the movie with red balloons in tribute to the latter).
Variety.com 2010
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Film Dose.dailyfilmdose. blogspot.com/2007/05/long-take. html
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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A long-take dance number through the streets of New York recalls classical musicals while simultaneously showing off Chu's technological mastery.
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