I love that but I’m not sure it really counts a montage. Montages tend to compress the passage of time,while BLU “One day, er…Tonight…er, Tomorrow night” is a combination of several scenes presumably occuring at the same time.
Requiem For A Dream - Come on people!
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from Webster’s On Line
therefore Act 1 Finale of BLU does qualify
Strictly speaking, I don’t know if a single unedited shot qualifies as a montage. It’s a collection of action, and the moving camera does serve a pseudo-editing function, but montage has a fairly specific technical meaning in cinema. (In French films, for example, the credit for “Montage” means “Editor.” I vaguely recall seeing “Montaj” in Eastern Euro movies also.)
The montage at the end of Donnie Darko is probably my favourite; it always blows me away.
It’s perfectly put together. Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World is fantastic, of course, but the montage itself is a cinematic gem. It’s a montage of acting, not action, and really effective acting at that. It’s so thoughtfully constructed that it almost doesn’t feel like a montage – the sets are carefully arranged and lit and the motion of each individual shot is designed so that it feels like a single Tarkovsky-ish pan, since there is one overall continuous motion and darkness at the edges between the edits.
Leaves me breathless.
Scarface has the greatest cheesy montage IMO, with that ‘Push it to the Limit’ song. South Park has used this song for montages in at least three episodes.
Although it’s not the kind of cheesy music montage most of us are thinking of, the sequence at the end of The Godfather with the baptism and killings is an amazing bit of filmmaking.
The Dead Gangsters Montage from Goodfellas, set to the coda from Eric Clapton’s Layla.