A video essay about the directing style that has dominated cinema since the 1970s: Intensified Continuity.David Bordwell, our greatest movie theorist, create...
Agree or disagree, I found this rather thought-provoking.
It’s more the pretentious film student angle. Nowadays, movies are too ‘pop culture’ in their editing, not like those old classics that are filmed like they’re performing a play… which they essentially are.
I’ll give points that examples like La La Land where they sit talking to each other for 6+ minutes with only face closeups and no other actions is frankly unforgivable movie directing. But that seems more cherry picked than an overall trend.
It’s more the pretentious film student angle. Nowadays, movies are too ‘pop culture’ in their editing, not like those old classics that are filmed like they’re performing a play… which they essentially are.
I’ll give points that examples like La La Land where they sit talking to each other for 6+ minutes with only face closeups and no other actions is frankly unforgivable movie directing. But that seems more cherry picked than an overall trend.