The actors are hardly charismatic, but Ulmer, capturing their frozen energy in the shifting perspective of daringly long takes, infuses them with his rhapsodically compassionate vision.
More recently, the influence of Rohmer's particular style -- long takes, extended conversations on everyday topics -- can be seen in the films of Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.
The film is built around long takes of tightly composed performances, culminating in a bravura four-minute shot with entrances and exits brilliantly orchestrated by the commanding presence of Cassavetes.
Holding tight to his characters with long takes and closeups, capturing them only at the breaking points in their lives, Garrel balances a hypnotic romanticism with the frightening lurch of unsteady emotions.
Filming their reunion in a pair of stupendous, deeply moving long takes (one running nearly ten minutes), Dreyer sublimates their pleasure and pain in the eternal anguish of time passing and death approaching.
"Those long takes are exhausting, " she said.
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Her latest project may be her most technically challenging yet: "Silent House, " to be released March 9, was shot in real time, meaning that several long takes were cobbled together to make the finished film, with no editing.
In fact, the manic pace of the film precludes sustained meditation on Jamal's urban surroundings--the kind of revelations that arise from the languorous long takes of a realist filmmaker like Satyajit Ray or, to a lesser extent, Mira Nair (for example, in 1988's Salaam Bombay).
The rail-thin Thomassin, all angles and scars and wounded bravado behind his scruffy mustache, and Beaugrand, a tall, pale beauty who hunches her shoulders and bows her head and peers out from beneath her brow through a floppy lock of hair, energetically tangle and trade etched phrases and aggressive silences in fluid long takes that seem composed of a series of sculptural tableaux.
"We will support the Afghan people for as long as it takes -- let me repeat that, for as long as it takes, " said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former Danish prime minister who became secretary general on August 1.
No one really knows how long it takes to break down, because plastic simply hasn't been around long enough.
Mola then measures how long it takes for a reflection to return to the spacecraft.
How long it takes RGIII to fully recover, if ever, remains to be seen.
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How long this takes, its success or failure, is up to us, not to our representatives.
How long it takes to fully charge a car makes them unrealistic for most one-car households.
Patients are scored on how long it takes to answer and on how many answers are correct.
How long it takes to drive from Salerno to Reggio di Calabria is a matter of chance.
So international travel is unlikely to revive until that response is over, no matter how long it takes.
Another key number is the incubation period--how long it takes one person to become sick after being infected.
We'll go easy with the rehab and then see how long it takes.
One of my pet peeves with air travel has always been how long it takes to board the airplane.
The mile-long route takes in Bow Bridge, which is decorated with Richard's coat of arms and features a white boar.
The month-long tournament takes place in Germany from 26 June to 17 July and has already sold over 500, 000 tickets.
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It can also tell how long you sleep each night, as well as how long it takes you to nod off.
The gating item, he thinks, will be how long it takes for the service to infiltrate the U.S. new car fleet.
Further complicating matters is the demand for low "latency, " the networking term for how long it takes information to travel across the cable.
"However long it takes, he's got to be right when he comes back and not be rushed but he needs games, " said Davies.
Mr McCain backed the war in the first place, and he proposes to stay the course there no matter how long it takes.
Most LED companies today talk about payback, or how long it takes to make up the higher upfront costs in lower energy bills.
In short, the subsidise installation now argument to drive innovation is just not recognising how long it takes to do this sort of innovation.
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