renrut@iwu1b.UUCP (turner) (03/21/85)
One of the longest movies ever made was "Gone with the Wind" --- 222 minutes If you know of a longer one, submit your guess to net.movies; each guess should include: title, running time ( original and released ), and your source. C. Turner -- The Collector
halle@hou2b.UUCP (J.HALLE) (03/22/85)
War and Peace (Russian version), about seven hours.
nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) (03/22/85)
"Victory at Sea", made by the US Navy, ran somewhere around 24 hours.
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I think he needs more than water, Peri, ay?maverick@trwatf.UUCP (Mark D. Grover) (03/23/85)
> One of the longest movies ever made was > "Gone with the Wind" --- 222 minutes > If you know of a longer one, submit your guess to net.movies; "The Sorrow and the Pity" (1972) 260m. Marcel Ophuls, director [Matlin's "TV Movies"]. This is a tremendous WW II documentary. -- MDG ARPA: trwatf!maverick@SEISMO [TRW Advanced Technology Facility] UUCP: ...!{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!maverick ...ucbvax!trwrb!trwatf!maverick
sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (03/23/85)
Wasn't Reds something like 4 hours? I didn't see it, but I heard the moans from
some of my friends who did. Apparently movie seats weren't made to be sat in
that long (actually they weren't made to be sat in at all).
Sean
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> "Victory at Sea", made by the US Navy, ran somewhere around 24 hours. > -- > James C Armstrong, Jnr. { ihnp4 || allegra || mcnc || cbosgb } !abnji!jca > > I think he needs more than water, Peri, ay? Napoleon, by Abel Ganz (1923) - about 4 hrs. Berlin Alexanderplatz (197?) - Fassbinder - about 15 hrs. Heimat (1984, West Germany) - Edgar Reitz - about 16 hrs. To appear at the New Directors/New Films series, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, in April. -- ...ihnp4!attunix!rajeev -- usenet ihnp4!attunix!rajeev@BERKELEY -- arpanet Sri Rajeev, SF 1-342, Bell Labs, Summit, NJ 07901. (201)-522-6330.
jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (jeffreys) (03/24/85)
Didn't Andy Warhol make a film which lasted for 24 hours ?
I thought he just pointed a camera at a skyscraper (in NY, I think) and left
it there. The highlight of the film was ment to be the night scene, where
the lights keep going on and off !
I guess the film must have been pretty boring :-)
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REFERENCES: <151@iwu1b.UUCP>, <1476@ukma.UUCP> Someone suggests that REDS was 4 hours long. No, it was 200 minutes, according to Maltin. That makes it 22 minutes shorter than LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper
cberry@muddcs.UUCP (Craig Berry) (03/26/85)
In article <151@iwu1b.UUCP> renrut@iwu1b.UUCP (turner) writes: >One of the longest movies ever made was > > "Gone with the Wind" --- 222 minutes > >If you know of a longer one, submit your guess to net.movies; >each guess should include: >title, running time ( original and released ), and your source. How about "Greed"? I don't have all of the data on it handy, but it was made around 1915(?). The movie was based on the novel _McTeague_ by Frank Norris, a popular turn-of-the-century author (incidentally, the book is quite good and still in print). As I recall, the original running length was on the order of fifteen hours (!). Since then, some of the film has been lost, but a version still exists which runs about nine hours. It has been suggested that this movie was bankrolled by the American Popcorn Marketing Board :-). Craig Berry "Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein -------------------------------------------------- allegra!scgvaxd!muddcs!cberry
mgh@hou5h.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (03/26/85)
What about Abel Gance' La Roue at 32 reels? I came across that one when looking up the running time of Napoleon -- the original was 17 reels but I've no idea how long Kevin Brownlow's reconstructed version is. -- Marcus Hand (hou5h!mgh)
hultquis@unc.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Hultquist) (03/27/85)
> >Berlin Alexanderplatz (197?) - Fassbinder - about 15 hrs. >... I saw Berlin Alex. about a year ago. My German is pretty sketchy, but I gathered from the credits this this "epic film" was actually a television miniseries which was glued together for distribution in American movie houses. Anybody know more about this? Thanks.
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/27/85)
In article <312@muddcs.UUCP> cberry@muddcs.UUCP (Craig Berry) writes: >In article <151@iwu1b.UUCP> renrut@iwu1b.UUCP (turner) writes: > > How about "Greed"? I don't have all of the data on it handy, but it was >made around 1915(?). The movie was based on the novel _McTeague_ by Frank >Norris, a popular turn-of-the-century author (incidentally, the book is >quite good and still in print). As I recall, the original running length >was on the order of fifteen hours (!). Since then, some of the film has >been lost, but a version still exists which runs about nine hours. > It has been suggested that this movie was bankrolled by the American >Popcorn Marketing Board :-). "Greed" came in at around eight hours in Erich von Stroheim's cut. MGM took the film away from von Stroheim and editted it down to about two hours. This is the longest release version that ever was shown. The original eight hour version is lost, and is number one on the American Film Institute's "most wanted list" of films it desperately wants to rediscover. Prospects are considered poor. "Greed" was released in 1923. (1915 was the year of "Birth of a Nation". Like most histories, film history has a few standout dates to remember, chiefly 1915 for "Birth of a Nation" and 1927 for "The Jazz Singer".) As far as long movies go, "Heimat", a German film made for theaters and just shown at Filmex, runs some 15 hours. If you want to disqualify that film, for some reason, how about the Russian version of "War and Peace" - 1967, a little over eight hours long. Handy Andy Warhol also made waves by producing incredibly long, incredibly dull films in the sixties. I don't have the running times handy, but one was several hours of a man sleeping and another showed a skyscraper, from a distance, over the course of many hours. The big highlight of the latter was sunset, when the lights went on. -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/27/85)
In article <387@sftri.UUCP> rajeev@sftri.UUCP (S.Rajeev) writes: >> "Victory at Sea", made by the US Navy, ran somewhere around 24 hours. >> James C Armstrong, Jnr. { ihnp4 || allegra || mcnc || cbosgb } !abnji!jca >Berlin Alexanderplatz (197?) - Fassbinder - about 15 hrs. "Berlin Alexanderplatz" was made as a TV series. I think "Victory at Sea" was, too. "Heimat" was made for theatrical release, though it was not intended to be seen in one sitting. -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher
al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) (03/28/85)
Didn't Andy Warhol make a 24-hour movie of the Empire State Building?
The camera was still; the action consisted of the lights going on
and off in their normal pattern. He had some philosophy about
"boredom as a medium for artistic expression". He also did a 8-hour
movie of a person sleeping.
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--Mae Westrogers@reed.UUCP (Michael Rogers) (04/01/85)
Hans Jurgen Syberberg (sp?) made a film called HITLER. I couldn't find any details, but I believe it runs around 9 hrs. It has been shown in Chicago several times, usually on two consecutive. The Art Institute once showed with a dinner break in between (the tag on that was around $20). There is a review of it in Susan Sontag's collection of essays, "Under the Sign of Saturn."
rodean@hpfclo.UUCP (rodean) (04/12/85)
There was a Russian version of "War and Peace" that my dad and I saw
back when I was in college. We went on two separate weekends, and the
total running time was at least six hours if not more.
Also I have heard of some avant garde films that run for hours, like one
that showed a building from dawn to dusk, and it was not time-lapsed.
Bruce Rodean
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