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Anastasia Lunea February 10 San Francisco California United States
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Jason Shankel February 10 San Francisco California United States
http://rlsbb.fr/true-detective-s01e04-hdtv-x2642hd-2/ True Detective S01E04 HDTV x264-2HD rlsbb.fr Thanks Shayne Bowman for this… http://www. vulture.com/2014/02/seitz-on-true-detectives-6minute-tracking-shot.html?mid=facebook_vulture Seitz on True Detective’s 6-Minute Tracking Shot — Vulture It’s a mistake to praise the shot simply for existing. Vulture|By Matt Zoller Seitz
The fourth episode of True Detective will forever be known as “the one with the six-minute tracking shot,” and why wouldn’t it be? It is logistically impressive: the sort of thing you notice and appreciate even if you’re a more casual moviegoer who doesn’t normally fixate on composition, shot duration, and other cinematic style choices. It’s of a piece with True Detective’s fiendishly elaborate construction. The entire show is conceived as one gigantic geographically dispersed, time-shifting puzzle, with shots answering other shots that in turn seem to pose questions to shots that haven’t appeared onscreen yet. The overall effect suggests that the past is continually in conversation with the present, a notion that’s made official whenever a past action is commented upon by a present-tense character during those office-bound interview scenes, and we hear the dialogue as voice-over before the show cuts to the speaker’s face. And because every episode of True Detective is written by Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Jane Eyre, Sin Nombre), it has a stylistic cohesiveness that a lot of series, even great ones, lack. That makes you sit up and take notice whenever it departs from whatever norms it has established. That blowout tracking shot at the end of last night’s episode was so striking not just because it was awesome, but because it was the first such shot in the show’s run. But I think it’s important to put that tracking shot in a larger
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