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World premiered at Canneseries, the episode sums up the high cinematic style brought to the series, with Hirschbiegel employing anamorphic lenses, an 8o-second dolly shot or 30-second closeup to construct a social horror story and play with audience expectation, as Von Schirach before him.
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John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
Tracks had been laid for a dolly shot.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
After this interaction, the film proceeded to the famous dolly shot that ends the film, to the photo on the wall of the Overlook Hotel.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
Peck and Grant reviewed the steps: an athletic sequence of leaps, développés, chugs, enveloppés, arabesques, and faillis, all of which would be danced on concrete and captured in a continuous dolly shot.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
The camera advances in a slow dolly shot, producing the weightless, gliding momentum of a first-person shooter game.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
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John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2022
Tracks had been laid for a dolly shot.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
After this interaction, the film proceeded to the famous dolly shot that ends the film, to the photo on the wall of the Overlook Hotel.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
Peck and Grant reviewed the steps: an athletic sequence of leaps, développés, chugs, enveloppés, arabesques, and faillis, all of which would be danced on concrete and captured in a continuous dolly shot.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2020
The camera advances in a slow dolly shot, producing the weightless, gliding momentum of a first-person shooter game.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2020
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“Dolly shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly%20shot. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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