Slow Motion to Speed Ramps: 5 of the Best Shots of All Time | A CineFix Movie List

Across 5 installments of our Best Shots of All Time series we’ve broken down scale, arrangement, the inanimate, lenses, and movement over the course of dissecting 23 different incredible shots. But the one thing we haven’t touched on yet, is time. Cinema, after all, not only gets to play with space, but it can distort and interpret time itself in some fantastic ways. So these are our picks for 5 MORE of the best shots of all time. Thinking about how movies deal with time in spatial terms, we’re looking at slow motion as a close up on time. Slowing down an event, magnifying everything that happens to study it more minutely used wonderfully in everything from Seven Samurai to Mean Streets and Wes Anderson films, in particular Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Then there is the extreme wide shot of time through the use of fast motion and time lapse, like The Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night, or a zoom in on time with the speed ramp made famous most recently by action films like anything by Zack Snyder (alth