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And yet there are 2 hour movies out there that can't find enough plot to last even halfway to the credits.
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Heck, the same goes for most half hour sitcoms...
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I pretty much gave up on sitcoms when they turned into vehicles for a bunch of unconnected one-liners. Plot?! We don' need no steenkeen plot!
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The 1925 version of Les Miserables went for 7 hours Are you kidding? Wow! I thought I'd seen "the longest movie" when I went to see Reds.... but it was worth it. :0) Gettysburg (1994) is probably the longest movie I've seen - over four hours. But I think from memory it was cut down from nearly twice that. The Russian War and Peace I saw about 1970 was 9 hours: 5 hours 1st night, 4 hours the next. auugh!
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ran 15.5 hours. I saw about half of it in a movie theater about two decades ago.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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(without looking at the link) It depends on your definition of movie. There are art movies that go for days, you know, those nihilistic arty farty meaningless pieces of concept 'art' that involve no more skill that turning the camera on and off. But if you only include 'real' movies, that is ones that show in a cinema or on TV, they are a lot shorter. Then, do you include ones that were shown as serials? There was a Chinese movie called The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple that went for 27 hours (must have been a slow fire!) but was serialised over four years from 1928-1931.
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from the link: Of all the films with actual storylines, the 1928 Chinese movie "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" is the longest, clocking in at 27 hours.
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Tangentially the talking books people once sent my mother "Anna Karenina." - on seventeen cassettes.
She said she would have written notes to keep track of who is who except of course that she couldn't see the notes.
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz ran 15.5 hours. I saw about half of it in a movie theater about two decades ago. That was a TV serial some decades ago. Of great quality. I wonder why they never did a re-run as they repeat so many inferior series over and over again.
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