Below is my list of the best single shot scenes – no edits… Hard Boiled hospital scene (best John Woo film! before he started filming in america – note: very violent),
next ….. famous crane shot from Orson Welles’ 1958 film Touch of Evil (1958), 3 minutes exactly, same time as the timer on the bomb was set to go off ……
and then the 8 minute, single shot, opening scene from the 1992 Robert Altman film The Player (actually references Touch of Evil as it breaks it’s record),
Check out Children of Men - most amazing in camera choreography in the car …
Last is the record breaking, Russian Ark the 2002 Russian historical drama film directed
by Alexander Sokurov filmed as a single 96-minute unedited, shot. I must see!
The five and a half minute continuous shot by Joe Wright in “Atonement” of the beach
in Dunkirk was the closing argument in listing this category. Watch it again.
Mike