Roger Ebert
The Shaky-Queasy-Utimatum
"A spectre is haunting contemporary cinema: the shaky shot."
"A spectre is haunting contemporary cinema: the shaky shot."
by Joe Krozel
From Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader:
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