Bordewell and Thompson: Film Art
I was reading this before, but this weekend I read the chapter on editing and really drank it in. It talked about shot/reverse shot, the 180 line, match on action, establishing shots. It also talked about how editing determines and depends on graphical matching, rhythm, temporal relations, and spatial relations.
Breathless
1960 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard
This movie was actually pretty fascinating in its editing. It used the jump cut a lot - moving the camera very little when cutting. Sometimes this just made it feel like there was a short passage of time, but when the actors spoke through the cut it was a little disorienting. The pace of the movie was very quick for the first 40 minutes. Basically, the first 40 could have been fleshed out in "Hollywood" style for a full length movie. Then the movie screeched to a halt while the two main characters talked to each other in a hotel room. For the last 30 minutes it picked back up with more chasing, tension, and movement.
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