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

[@onaraisedbeach]

Every single time I watch one of your videos, my love for cinema grows. The poetry of the analysis is without equal on this site. Even if I never get to watch all these films, I feel enriched. I have yet to see Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but that scene alone brought me to tears. Thank you.

[@yabadoo8317]

Cringe comment

[@onaraisedbeach]

@@yabadoo8317 Sorry your perspective is so miserable that someone's expression of emotion and appreciation comes off as cringe. Grass, go touch it.

[@archstanton6102]

@@onaraisedbeach ignore the troll

[@west_coast_girl]

Exactly. At the end of each video, I have a long list of movies written down I want to see. I appreciate that the title of each movie shown is on the screen. I have actually seen the Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and I'm fairly sure it was because at some point, they mentioned it in another video.

[@zzz1001ww]

This so true. And at the same time it's the nicest comment KZbin has ever seen

[@PatrickWDunne]

I don't get how Cinefix videos don't get more views. Easily the best film channel on KZbin!

[@MOSMASTERING]

3.7 million subscribers isn't that bad!

[@petethedutch]

So, about the Clockwork Orange sequence. The movie took a long time to come out here in Brazil because of government censorship, and this particular scene became kind of infamous in the censored version, because the black bars couldn't keep up with the action onscreen, making the entire thing almost like a Monty Python sketch. Legend has it that Kubrick not only approved it, but said that he kicked himself for not thinking of that sooner. Leave it to dumb censors, I guess.

[@frankunodostres473]

I always wondered how that scene was shot. were the actors just following instructions for 20 minutes or however long that took in real time. or were they actually fucking

[@JohnMoseley]

@@frankunodostres473 I'd be amazed if they were actually fucking. Why would you need to do it for real when the end result was going to be such a cartoon?

[@lastminutesavior]

_Contact_ is one of my all time favorites, seen it a hundred times, but Clint's narration still got me very close to tears.

[@mstorrboy]

I was glad to see it included also, but honestly I thought the clip would have been the intro to it instead.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Generic holywood movie

[@robertkendall6660]

@@mstorrboy The intro to Contact was the first thing I thought of when I heard the topic of the video. The camera seemingly moves slowly away from the Earth as sound travels backward - years in seconds, decades in minutes. It was a beautiful and intriguing way to set up the concept that was brought home when the main character traveled light years away in what was literally no time at all to those watching her - that to have real contact an alien race would have to find a way to play with spacetime. This is the main reason why Contact is one of my favorite films. Between Contact and Cosmos, Carl Sagan is one of a handful of people who profoundly changed the way that I think, making me who I am.

[@mstorrboy]

@@robertkendall6660 i couldn't have said that better myself

[@Jeffjeanw]

You and your team consistently rejuvenate my passion for film and remind me why I fell in love with the medium. Takes me back to my tv production/film class I had in high school and college.

[@JoshuaGoudreau]

Y'all are right, that iceberg was pure poetry in motion. As a film and literature student I can't help but be moved by the art of cinema and this was one of the best I've seen I love this channel. There is always a deeper discussion of cinema in ways that most channels miss. It always makes me feel like I'm in one of those wonderful moments in film classes where I see and learn things I would not have discovered outside of that specific environment. Thanks for that

[@TechNoir808]

The "Slo-mo" slow motion shot in DREDD when the dude gets thrown off the balcony is one of the most chilling shots I have ever seen.

[@maltesharalikatti2818]

As an Indian, I can't explain how surprised & happy I was when u mentioned Satyajit Ray's work & felt bad that I heard of it now. The man was way ahead of his time in filmmaking. A literal genius. Thank you for the little appreciation u gave. 🇮🇳 Also, the Russian movie 'Come and See' has some great camera work especially at the end of the moving Chronicaling the life of Hitler. I was mildly disappointed that it dint make the list.

[@smithsyd]

I'm so happy the format and the attention to detail hasn't changed since moving to IGN Movies and TV. Still killing it! Keep it coming!

[@sanjaykrishnagouda1270]

For freeze/stop frame the ending of funny games is an awesome example! It not only sets the mood for “be in the victims shoe” but also for “could there be a part two”. Fantastic stuff

[@derkapitan6680]

For me it's the slomo scenes in Dredd. The shots weren't just "there" but were explained in the story. Criminals would take a drug called "slomo" which made them perceive real events in slow motion. This combined with the bullet time, and color grading made those scenes awesome.

[@JoshuaGoudreau]

That movie is beautiful in ways no one really expects on the surface. Those shots that are pure Alex Garland indulgence contrasted to the bleak and drab rest of the movie make them stand out all the more and look beautiful even in their horror. An absolute masterpiece of cinema hidden in the most unexpected of places

[@christianzafiroglu6705]

That breakdown (build up?) from Diving Bell was superb. Brought back intense memories. Thank you for that.

[@amelade]

ngl these episodes deserve to be called more than movie lists. there are entire classes condensed inside this video

[@scottmelville3476]

Always loved the multiple freeze frames at the end of Fail Safe.

[@allisonbergh4429]

Your analyses are always articulate and well-written, but this one was particularly eloquent. Just fascinating, and now I think it’s time to binge some more of this channel 😆 Would have liked to see something from Run, Lola, Run in here somewhere, though I’m not sure what or how it would have fit into this video’s concept. I just know it’s my favourite time-f**k film 😅

[@Nolanthegardener]

I would have liked to see an example of the passing of real time, like in the movie "Boyhood" 2014. How time in the 'now' is preciouses and how when you film, including re-shoots, changes things. Great video, so many good picks.

[@eyespy3001]

Technically, no movie deals with the passing of real time; not even _Boyhood,_ since movies contain edits and cuts. In fact, _Boyhood_ would be an example of a story playing with the storytelling device of time jumps since it takes nearly twenty years and compresses them down to two hours by omitting long spans of time in between key events.

[@RmB9104]

@@eyespy3001 Maybe Cléo de 5 à 7 does that

[@benmcfee]

_Boyhood_ was like the ultimate speed-ramp. It took the concept of fast-motion and applied it to years, instead of moments, or even hours, ramping down to show us the key moments in real time, before ramping back up again, and shooting us through a decade at a pace that only seems to come as we get older. I've seen no other film that so effectively shows us how quickly time can disappear.

[@NassimPanda]

I discovered the awful nightmare of a masterpiece that is Come and See through this channel, and I think the scene that was celebrated in "10 Best Movie Endings" also deserves a mention here, the rewinding of Nazi Germany and Hitler's life is so powerful after the horrors that the main character went through. It's a mix of rewinds, still shots and a few normal shots, mixed with close-ups of the main character so it's not just one specific category but it hits hard.

[@ajiththomas2465]

Professor Jelkington has a really great video about Come and See which explores how Come and See is one of the scariest non-horror films of all time. Check it out if you have the time.

[@jordanlayton6540]

I get so excited whenever I see a new CineFix video. This channel makes some of the best film buff videos on the internet, no contest. Is there CineFix merch???

[@sumiokodai1652]

Charulata is one of Ray's finest achievements

[@aleksandarmahdik377]

One of your best videos. And for years now I haven’t missed a single Cinefix video. Thank you!

[@milou66]

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (s05e22 of The Twilight Zone) is one of my favourites for time distortion. The penultimate moments use time gaps and repetition set to heartbreaking music to create a dreamlike atmosphere as the hero is finally reunited with his love after an absolutely harrowing escape. And (SPOILER) we discover at the end that the half hour we have just witnessed was in fact only a moment in time. From the 1890 story by Ambrose Bierce set during the American Civil War. It had the distinction of being the only episode not produced by the show. It had won best short at Cannes in 1962 and was broadcast for tv on TZ.

[@KennDrumm]

I was hoping one day this channel would discuss the 'rebuilding' of the ice shelf in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Glad it has happened. Beautiful and heart-rending

[@kurtb8474]

My favorite freeze shot is at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It was brilliant. The shot freezes, then a long zoom-out follows. It was a brilliant idea.

[@Smd3580]

It's been over a decade since I watched Charulata, so my memory may be at fault. But I was so sure that it was a happy ending. Of this couple finding each other again, after a difficult period. I guess that was the resolution I just made up in my mind & never realised it.

[@kaspinet]

Thank you for the list. I always get excited when a new video shows up in my notifications. Each one is like a master class in cinema.

[@REELSERI0US]

That Charulata scene is insane

[@zyonmdc]

tenet is CRAZY! a complete new level, nothing is gonna be closer of that in 10 year or even more

[@jsans9444]

Surprised to see the A Clockwork Orange scene uncensored

[@haythama6451]

After rightfully calling it one the least sexy scenes ever, it would've defeated the purpose if they censored it.

[@kitkatsci8700]

Big perk of working with IGN now. KZbin didn't even remove the ads here 🍑🍆

[@insoporous9978]

@@haythama6451 Also true. I'm more surprised KZbin let it be, than I am CineFix included the whole thing.

[@haythama6451]

@@insoporous9978 I guess if someone reports it might get removed, but I doubt it, it could be considered educational. if they showed the scene from basic instinct it would definitely get removed.

[@raveballs]

And the narrator's curse word beeped out earlier

[@axnyslie]

Another good freeze frame ending not mentioned is George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". The finale immediately goes from an expected happy ending to tragedy where our hero protagonist emerges to be rescued, only to be killed mistaken as a zombie. It goes into a sequence of freeze frames as his body is collected and dragged to the cremation pile over the credits, as he will not live to see the aftermath of the night of horror he survived through.

[@ichabodnoodle9595]

You missed the iconic freeze frame at the end of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli - the noise and chaos, the whistle, Mel Gibson’s anguished cry, the near silence of just Mark Lee’s running, the gunfire - the end. If not outright the best use of a freeze frame, then certainly worthy of discussion and highlight.

[@ftuT]

Thanks Cinefix, never change.

[@drinksanddice9528]

I'm surprised KZbin let the Clockwork Orange overture through. Nice.

[@ddichny]

If you mean the music, it's from the early 1800's and is way out of copyright.

[@drinksanddice9528]

@@ddichny nah, the nudity. That performance is Wendy Carlos and it's also interesting that it didn't get copyright flagged as well full performances of hers are super hard to find on KZbin.

[@RuiBarEdits]

The choices of the main exemples are superb! Congrats!!

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

I was almost certain that you will pick 400 blows for the freeze frame, it is the most iconic freeze frame of all. So, when you eventually picked Charulata, I was kinda surprised but that quickly took over by a sense of elation. Charulata is one of my all time favorite films. I personally think it is Ray's best film narrowly beating out Jalsaghar and Aronyer Din Ratri. However, outside a bengali speaking diaspora, I don't think many have heard of it, most know Ray for the Apu trilogy. Anyway, my interpretation of the final scene is a bit different. I think the scene is meant to be a more hopeful one, it signals a new beginning for them, there is struggle ahead but they are willing to fight for it, that's why the frame just stops before they could hold hands. The novela the movie is based on, Nastonirh also arrives at broadly the same end, as in it leaves things optimistic but ambiguous at the same time. Also, the music playing in the background is tune of a Rabindasangeet that is especially meant to evoke happy moments, it's literally saying 'someone is singing or dancing in my soul'.

[@thaisb.6815]

THIS is one of your best videos of all time 👌

[@alemarioluiginator]

Love the mention of Click, the movie is super underrated and has a nice and strong message

[@EthalaRide]

This channel is such a BOON to me and my cinematic enjoyment and knowledge. I just love it so much

[@cryoboy]

About time you did this video.

[@whotheone55]

wow those few seconds in charulata are amazing.

[@TheCreepypro]

these shots were amazing and this list superb

[@AlirezaRahimzadeh-jk3xz]

Best narrator ever!

[@rudyrudiger84]

The scene that introduces you to the highschool world of Donnie Darko is my favorite time warping scene.

[@sakayanko]

favourite youtube channel hands down! i wish you made more videos

[@hutch13pbbc]

Great examples as always. One my favorite freeze frames would be throwing of the ashes at the end of Vengeance Is Mine by Imamura

[@jonathanandrade176]

thanks for the list of new movies to watch

[@museofsalzburg2373]

I’d never heard of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly before, but that shot still got to me.

[@tatyana5037]

The fastest animals on earth: - сheetah, - peregrine falcon, - me, when I click on the new Cinefix video Seriously, guys, you are the best movie channel on KZbin. Your movie selections are a kind of an art itself. Please keep delighting us with new videos!❤

[@peterDcontact]

i love this kind of videos it makes me apricate more, movies i have already watched lol

[@DrVonNostrand]

Babe wake up Cinefix just dropped a new Best Of list

[@Emanuel-oz1kw]

The video we had been expecting

[@harbo11]

It's been way too long since you have done this format. Keep doing it!

[@romilrh]

A little disappointed you didn't mention Another Round as an honorable mention for the freeze-frame shots. One of the best film endings in recent history imo

[@salvadorslim3234]

I cried during my lunchtime at the divine bell and the butterfly 🦋 Thanks cinefix ❤

[@chancemartin4737]

Keep up the amazing work

[@thedevilluis]

Cinefix, the most pretencious movie channel of all time. Still fun.

[@Chkhitoooo]

Really enjoyed watching this 🍿

[@lydia1634]

Nice touch to flip the countdown!

[@darthziv]

how did you not use the alternate history flashback montage in Watchmen? it was so brilliant and used a lot of time plays, with slow-mo and suddenly fast to make certain points

[@Shah-of-the-Shinebox]

Pretty good list. Would’ve liked a shout out to A Matter of Life and Death regarding freezing time.

[@of_tcm]

Can't say I was here first but bloody hell I just came this early and I'm watching this outside on the balcony

[@johansinclaire1499]

love these videos! Always inspirational

[@Advent3546]

Another superb breakdown!

[@eatanyahel9813]

Please make a list of the top 10 "bigger than life" characters in movies. Characters like Tyler Durden in fight club, kambei Shimada in seven samurai, and Harry Lime in the third man. All amusing characters that deserve their own list.

[@twzted_synapse221]

Completely stunned that you didn’t even approach the time lapse in Simon Well’s “The Time Machine”. My jaw physically dropped….

[@GabeWeymouth]

Great suggestion!

[@CornishCreamtea07]

For the freeze frame shot, I would have gone with the ending to Three Days of the Condor, it's very haunting seeing Joe disappear into the crowd looking back with unease and uncertainty.

[@seriomarkj]

more please!!! thank you

[@csabalaskai9249]

I love u guys! Pure class

[@emmetkowler]

This whole video could have just been talking about one shot from Chungking Express and I love it

[@milou66]

I'm a little surprised you left out Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961), a film about an annual trip to a resort for the super-rich. Its whole thing is playing with time, although I'm not sure it would fit neatly into one of the categories. The conceit of the film is that it doesn't matter what year a scene is from because they're all the same for these useless people who just go there to be seen, so they might as well be just more of the statues that populate the place. It employs throughout scenes that look like stills, but aren't, because the camera is moving through the space, or everything will be still except for one character performing an act or even just speaking- frozen except for their lips. It also employs repetition, sometimes identical, sometimes with differences. These devices are used to evoke memories, which come to mind often as tableaus.

[@dreamersrealm5096]

1962s "La Jetée" is the perfect opposite of "Charulata". It's entirely told through still images, more a collage of pictures composed in time and held together through sound than a traditional film. Except, there's this scene that consists of several pictures of the same subject, shot from the same angle (a sleeping woman, slightly shifting her position on the bed), and you start to notice these pictures were taken with less and less time between them, until the time spend on each picture is shortened, too, they begin to fade into each other, and finally, when she opens her eyes, looks into the camera, and blinks, it's played at "normal" speed-only for the film to immediately revert back to more or less disconnected still images for the rest of its runtime. Now, that's not a scene I'll forget any time soon.

[@starkparker16]

Fascinating

[@JohnMoseley]

Great video, but my god I wish you'd thought to make La Jetée part of the discussion. A whole series of freeze frames with just one brief fleeting moment where the character's world comes to life.

[@rmannayr2129]

SPEED RAMPS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KyroEmeraldblade]

i love you cinefix

[@rodrigomatosopecanha1035]

Wow, I've been to that glacier (Perito Moreno, in Argentina), might have to watch the Diving Bell and the Butterfly again

[@vashsunglasses]

My favorite freeze frame is the famous one in episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion. As the moment stretches on and on you can feel Shinji's desperate deliberations about what he should do next. It's agonizing. It's also interesting to watch people react to the episode, some of them get incredibly uncomfortable about it or even angry.

[@giascle]

I would argue that's not a freeze frame, it's happening in real time. It's kind of a grey area because it's only one drawing, but if it was a live-action film with absolutely no motion it'd have the same effect.

[@illogicalcreations411]

It fulls my heart seeing Satyajit Ray getting acknowledged in an American KZbin channel.... That's two Indian cinemas picks from 2022 itself... Guess the other one 😂

[@mrxunexpected4804]

Shout out to cinefix for not caring that this video will definitely be demonotized for that clockwork orange scene. lol

[@button4boy]

Blimey... I consider myself a bit of a film connoisseur and cinema lover, usually. I LOVE movies and have seen so many over my lifetime... But I swear, you guys just try and pick the most obscure movies possible sometimes! 😂

[@chrismcg69]

Never thought I would see an Adam Sandler movie (Click) mentioned in one of these videos but fair enough lol

[@osamudiamenamienghomwan8831]

A CineFix movie list!!!

[@aayushrivastava]

Glad to see a Ray

[@6Pope9]

How do you guys know so many movies?? I feel like you know every movie ever filmed. And thanks to that I really believe your picks just because you're choosing between movies that I never heard of.

[@th3giv3r]

Stretching, squeezing it, whipping it around and putting it back together is exactly what I love to do with my... camera

[@DanArnets1492]

FUN FACT · The Sherlock Holmes slow-motion scenes were filmed by none other than KZbin's very own Gavin Free (SlowMo Guys + Rooster Teeth)

[@CollinThomasEverett]

Hell to the yes

[@CahitbeyAdiAlinmis]

Awesome

[@neskire]

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly end credits also scroll up at the same speed as the ice flowing back up the glacier. The end is just another beginning, another creation. Things being put right.

[@budojitsu1]

Time space and SOUND for cinematic art

[@jakobkristensen9445]

The film "Happy End" (1967) from Czechoslovakian director Oldrich Lipský is clearly the finest example of reverse order in cinema.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Nice shots

[@jbmboy]

I don't love Cinefix because I agree with all of their picks; but rather because they justify them so well.

[@mboettcher349]

Was The Diving Bell and the Butterfly the inspiration for what happens to Dennis in "The Gang Saves of the Day" on It's Always Sunny...?

[@alexandrefrancofilho5041]

That would be awesome lol If true, Hope so

[@rodrigomatosopecanha1035]

I recently bough a shirt of the aforementioned Godfather shot because of the video, and of course, because of the cannoli

[@RandyBeaman]

Thanks for increasing my appreciation for film. This video was most enjoyable and educational. I completely agree with all your picks save No. 5. I really didn't find the freeze frame in Charulata very impactful. Big Fish was better; so artful.

[@RobbieLugos]

Best movies Best movie scenes Best long takes Best shots Still waiting for CineFix to list the best movie frames of all time.

[@shorpilakarshimanto224]

The ending of Charulata 💔💔💔

[@SamButler22]

I'm not saying Rocky 3 would ever beat Charuluta, but an honourable mention if nothing else for being one of the most famous

[@ForeverTraitor]

I am once again asking if anyone knows what CineFix's intro and outro music is.

[@ForeverTraitor]

@@j1ngks Thank you!

[@billyjackson00]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3a4YZykrb-ietE I've actually been meaning to look this up for you like 3 times but the answer wasn't in a readily accessible place. Had to dig up a project for an old ep but that's the track! (our needle drop starts around 0:39)

[@crisowun9724]

@@billyjackson00 could I please have the music from the slow motion segment??

[@TheSDB13]

Damn I didn't expect Cinefix to mention Threads