Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Directed by Alfonso Cuarón

The film (Harry Potter) was wonderful.
I saw "Laberinto del fauno, El (Pan's Labyrinth)" a few days ago. The violence in the film was disturbing. In his interview for Harry Potter, Chris Columbus talks about the importance of drawing a line between being scary and being disturbing. He thinks that people like to be scared but not to be disturbed. It was great to see what he meant by the interview by watching Pan's Labyrinth.

Anyway, going back to Alfonso Cuarón. The film was great, and his interview was good. http://www.horror.com/php/article-473-1.html I recommend you to read it when you have time. In the interview, he talks about the usage of "close-up." Now you see why I enjoyed the interview.

"Unfortunately the close-ups in contemporary Hollywood cinema they lost their strengths as close-ups. Now the cinema, most of cinema is a cinema of close-ups. And it becomes such a generic grammar, I’m talking in terms of grammar, you know film grammar. I’ve been more into trying to observe from a more of a distance a character with their surroundings and allow, pretty much, allow that openness to convey as much as possible. But it has not to do with close-ups but the rhythm of cuts, most of contemporary cinema is one cut after each half-a-second. Here, I’m very curious to see how much can you hold visual information. [...] In Harry Potter we don’t have that many close-ups, you go and point to a close-up when it’s relevant to go there or in most of the cases you are going to have a close-up it’s because the camera is going very wide eventually finds that close-up. But it’s not only about close-ups, it’s about what we call coverage. Most of cinema nowadays, it’s about shooting a lot and then figuring it out in the cutting room rather than seeing your film in the head and just seeing what is in your head and not shoot but what you have already envisioned."

I hope this interview excites you as much as it did to me. Thanks.