Landmarks in handheld cinematography

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pwyll

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Being a fan of handheld camerawork and looking for a reason to continue with Netflix - can anyone add to the list?

Claude Lelouche - Man and a Woman

Paul Greengrass - Bloody Sunday, Bourne Ultimatum

Catherine Hardwicke - Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel

Jon Crowley - Intermission
 
I could watch Children of Men forever, I do =P. Ya slumdog's camera work was very nice also. There was a clip from a movie I watched in Film class last semester that I liked, it was an awesome handheld scene, If i think of it I'll let you know. Sorry for the vagueness =/
 
Christopher Doyle does great work with that handheld pillow rig in the quiet american. Listen to him speak about how he handholds the camera. Very poetic and instinctual. It's not breakthrough or original, but more craft then any other modern cinematographer I can think of. Doyle "dances" with the camera.
 
American Beauty. Only one scene is handheld, and I never even noticed till I listened to the director's commentary pointing it out. Perfect.

Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan obviously though.
Requiem for a Dream handheld worked very well.
Jaws, first really big budget project to go almost completely handheld.
MTV style of Se7en working perfectly in-sync with the story.
 
Definitely Children of Men, and Schindler's List, the latter of which only employed handheld when necessary to heighten the sense of tension. Loved it.
 
i'm not quite sure what you consider Landmark, but here goes:
Chinatown
City of God
Days of Heaven
Easy Rider
Into the Wild
Lost in Translation
Made
Maria Full of Grace
Midnight Cowboy
Million Dollar Hotel
Monster
Monster's Ball
Munich
Narc
Natural Born Killers
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Raging Bull
Rodger Dodger
The Anniversary Party
The Limey
Touch of Evil
United 93
U-Turn
Wonderland
Y tu mama Tambien
 
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