Film Scenes

The gold scenes in Greed.

This might have been the first dolly zoom I've seen.

The Dardenne brothers astutely observed Chaplin's movement resembles film going through a projector.

Interestingly, Chaplin had the idea of playing with the globe earlier; Chaplin often let ideas simmer for even decades.

Masina turns toward the camera and her glance crosses ours ….The finishing touch to this stroke of directorial genius is this, that Cabiria’s glance falls several times on the camera without ever quite coming to rest there….Here she is now inviting us, too, with her glance to follow her on the road to which she is about to return. The invitation is chaste, discreet, and indefinite enough that we can pretend to think that she means to be looking at somebody else. At the same time, though, it is definite and direct enough, too, to remove us quite finally from our role of spectator. - André Bazin

The freeze frame ending may be an homage to this shot in L'Atalante, a film Francois Truffuat loved.