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20 Signature Shots and Techniques of the World’s Greatest Directors

20 Signature Shots and Techniques of the World’s Greatest Directors, grolschfilmworks.com/, By David Katz And Oliver Lunn

  • Richard Linklater: walk-and-talk dolly shot
  • Paul Thomas Anderson: whip pan
  • Terrence Malick: lens flare
  • Alfred Hitchcock: zoom dolly
  • Gus Van Sant: steadicam shot from behind
  • Orson Welles / Gregg Toland: low angle shot
  • Martin Scorsese: slow-moving dolly shots set to classic rock music
  • Brian De Palma: split-screen
  • Wong Kar-wai: motion-blur
  • Dardenne brothers: long-take with steadicam, focusing on the back of an actor’s head
  • Sam Peckinpah: slow-mo shootouts

exploring filmography…

Wong Kar-Wai
Les Blank
Richard Linklater
Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Bong Joon-ho
Satyajit Ray
Anh Hung Tran
Shohei Imamura
Lukas Moodysson
Corneliu Porumboiu
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Robert Bresson
Yasujiro Ozu
Abba Kiarostami
Artavazd Peleshian
Jia Zhang-Ke
Aki Kaurismaki
Michael Haneke
Jacques Audiard
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Gus Van Sant
Alexander Sokurov