Originally Posted By: BranShea
Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
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.

Because a) inferior series are cheaper; b) there's no accounting for public taste; c) 'great quality' is a term involving value judgements which are no longer allowed or at best are relegated to the esoteric realm of public broadcasting, along with gaelic football and nihilistic Scandinavian movies.