There are few legal things that can teleport you to another world as well as an excellent long film take in a movie. When those happen—think of those scenes in Children of Men or Goodfellas—you don’t feel like you’re watching a movie anymore, you feel like you’re seeing it happen in real life. Like you’re right next to them. I love it. CineFix lists what they think are the 12 top long takes ever filmed in this video compilation below.
Here’s the full list:
Children of Men’s car scene
Snake Eyes’s boxing match
Goodfellas’ Copacabana Lounge
Gravity’s opening shot
Touch of Evil’s bomb sequence
The Player’s opening shot
Hard Boiled’s hospital shootout
Weekend’s traffic jam scene
Atonement’s beach sequence
The Mirror’s burning barn scene
The Protector’s restaurant fight scene
What’s missing?
