But like all Kubrick movies, it’s sumptuous and virtuosic, and the added length allows Kubrick to sink even deeper into the detail and totality of vision that characterize his work. Inland Empire (2006)David Lynch’s inaugural foray into digital video, Inland Empire is three hours long and weird even by the master’s standards, especially following the (relative) mainstream success of Mulholland Drive. The bold choice to shoot in black and white fits the somberness of the mission: To present, in unflinching terms, the devastation of the Holocaust, the brutality of the Nazi regime (as embodied in a terrifying Ralph Fiennes, in his first major role), and the work of one uneasy hero, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who built a factory employing Polish-Jews as a way to capitalize off the war and, in the process, saved over a thousand lives, keeping those workers on his payroll long after there was any monetary reason to do so. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)This tale of real-life gonzo stockbroker, Jordan Belfort features Leonardo DiCaprio literally having sex on piles of money, and living on a rotating regime of Quaaludes, Adderall, Xanax, pot, cocaine, and morphine. Here’s what we know about that historic night. Some of these long movies inflate the familiar three-act structure to epic proportions, while others use their expanded lengths to stretch out and wander into unexpected places. Still one shot…”, Director Theo AngelopoulosCinematography Giorgos Arvanitis, Theo Angelopoulos was one of cinema’s greatest exponents of the sequence shot and one could choose any number of his films and find myriad masterful examples. Standing tall over any and all pretenders to the one-take-wonder, Sokurov’s 99-minute, single-take journey through the Russian State Hermitage Museum proves as thrilling a viewing experience as it is a rigorous formal and intellectual exercise – more so, certainly, than Peter Greenaway’s similar, abbreviated experiment in 3x3D (2013). Director Alexander SokurovCinematography Tilman Büttner. Audiences didn’t go for it at the time, presumably finding its commentary too enmeshed in the violence it’s critiquing, much like the great De Palma films of the 80s. Years before Bonfire of the Vanities flopped, Hollywood had a much better time adapting Tom Wolfe, turning his nonfiction book about the Mercury program into a clear-eyed piece of Americana. The camera scales a building from ground level, passing across the old men on the roof making cigars, pushing past the Cuban flag unravelled at the edge of the building to take flight, soaring through the air above the procession below to the strains of Ravel. A 13-minute unbroken take (albeit one with a few hidden cuts, granted) is all but an hors d’oeuvre to the formal chutzpah to come, from a master craftsman who rarely brought anything but his A-game. News, features and opinion on the world of film. Cleopatra (1963)The sets! Rublev is epically long. Sátántangó (1994)There are long movies, and then there’s Sátántangó, Bela Tarr’s legendary seven-hour adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. Tarkovsky is the director’s director, and while Andrei Rublev might not sound like the most accessible iTunes rental for your average Friday night, it might just make you smarter. Police arrive. Unlike his better-known movies, Solaris and Stalker, Andrei Rublev is historical (not science fiction). There are sequence shots of greater technical complexity later in the film than that which opens The Red and the White, to which any attempt at description would do a disservice. One suspects he’s probably a fan, and rightly so. Titanic (1997)James Cameron’s epic disaster-romance about the doomed ocean liner was the biggest movie ever made for its day: Theaters were packed with teenage girls who’d come out to see it for the 17th time and the lavish spectacle, not to mention Jack and Rose’s steamy first love, was worth every penny. But that, by its nature, had to show it, because it told the plot. Nymphomaniac (2013)Lars von Trier’s dedicated exploration of sexual depravity was released as two separate movies. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Sure, your butt might hurt after sitting through all of David Lean’s 216-minute widescreen epic. Not only that, he’s also going to shoot it in 70mm, fill the screen with an orgy of visual splendor, and bring in super-famous people like Robin Williams to play even the smallest parts. The movie is notable for its troubled production and numerous issues with the Soviet Union's strict censorship board. However, considering the long running time and the quality of the end product one can probably read David Brin's post-apocalyptic novel … But I prefer the ones that don’t, that conceal themselves.”. Oscar seems to love the flamboyant balleticism afforded by digital technology, but were he working today, would Welles’s camera be floating through cup-handles à la Panic Room (2002)? Touch of Evil is back in cinemas now, including an extended run at BFI Southbank. “Look out the window, what do you see?” he purrs, “Bullfight, across the street. While the obvious choice when it comes to Hitchcock and the sequence shot would be to head directly for Rope (1948), it’d be a shame to ignore the magnificent crane shot that marks the climax of Young and Innocent. Watch Malcolm X and you’ll be impressed that it only took Lee this long to cover the life of such a dynamic figure; Malcolm’s life certainly stymied plenty of writers, including such lions as James Baldwin, before Lee managed to wrangle it onscreen. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)Length: It doesn’t make it easy. When filming Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the camera magazines available could hold not more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. Covering nearly 40 years in the life of a single family, the two-part, 366-minute version is one of the high points of expansive Italian cinema; if you’ve recently hoovered up the complete works of Elena Ferrante, this is just what the doctor ordered, though the doctor might not suggest tackling it all at once. Not knowing who took them, he fights everyone. As Hitchcock told Truffaut: “That sweeping movement of the camera is making a statement. As if those three films weren’t enough, Dekalog basically represents ten more masterworks, each based on one of the Ten Commandments. Promising Young Woman (2020) WEBSCR x264. This is a process that cannot accept any interference; it must have a natural opening and fading.”, Director Andrei TarkovskyCinematography Sven Nykvist. Ethan Hawke to Play the Villain to Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight in Marvel Series. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)Spencer Tracy leads an all-star cast in this dramatization of the post-war trials of Nazi judges for crimes against humanity. Latest movies with Greek & English subtitles. Whether you find it an insipid “orgy of immorality” or an example of “mainlining cinema for three hours,” you won’t be bored. One shot. You could spend hours more just trying to understand what it all means. At 183 minutes and with a level of intensity that, on a scale of one-to-ten, ranks somewhere in the triple digits, the movie is not what you’d call easygoing, but you’ll certainly end up with a new appreciation for the possibilities of roulette, not to mention the toll of ’Nam. Gandalf would be so proud. Fanny and Alexander (1982)You know a movie’s long when even the short version tops three hours. The stakes are higher, the special effects more spectacular; you can really feel the fate of Middle Earth on the line as Frodo (Elijah Wood) battles a giant spider, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) leads a coalition of elves and dwarves and humans to defend Minas Tirith, and our breakfast-loving hobbits, trailed by Gollum, brave death to return the ring to Mount Doom. The opening, post-credits shot (a tracking shot of Alexander, Little Man, and Otto talking and walking) lasts nine minutes and twenty-six seconds, the longest single take in all of Tarkovsky's work. ====== ANNOUNCEMENTS: WEEK 24: Michael and Storm's Birthday Special (Jan. 12, 18, 2021) - It's mine and Storm's birthday on January 13th, so as per tradition the themes are chosen by us. How did the camera get out through the bars on the window? Tim Robbins’s philandering motorcycle cop, Lyle Lovett’s angry baker, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s phone-sex operator are all disconnected from other people but connected to each other in a kind of longing for connection. 453DLs. And these are 12 of the most masterful. Unlike his better-known movies, Solaris and Stalker, Andrei Rublev is historical (not science fiction). Do you know that the Lumière brothers (Which, to be fare, is hardly Forrest Gump.) There are only 115 shots in the entire film. The opera contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs. While most cinematic films have a broad theatrical release in multiple locations through normal distribution channels, some of the longest films are experimental in nature or created for art gallery installations, having never been simultaneously released to multiple screens or intended for mainstream audiences. Francis Ford Coppola makes the extra run time count: Part II is only 25 minutes longer than the first installment, but it expands the scope considerably, detailing the criminal rise of Vito Corleone and the spiritual fall of his son. Director Kathryn BigelowCinematography Matthew F. Leonetti. The most famous comes early, as the camera takes in a rooftop beauty pageant before floating downwards to follow a bikini-clad girl into a swimming pool, both she and the camera submerging underwater. Kathryn Bigelow opens Strange Days with a sensational coup de cinema, a three-minute robbery-gone-wrong shot from the first-person vantage point of one of the crooks. It's a data used to compare films from their editing style : how often do they cut, how long do the shots last. Looks like it's official: Kevin Costner's The Postmanis the longest sci-fi movie Not even the Special Edition versions of other movies come close! Anderson regulars — Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman — reaching out and breaking down with abandon; that amazing Aimee Mann soundtrack; an ending that has to be seen to be believed. Switching between a ground sweep and a soaring crane shot as a machine-gun toting baddie makes his way from a top window, the cut finally comes with a blazing whip-pan punctuated by an explosion. He’d repeat the trick years later with Notorious (1946), a high-placed camera moving through a crowded room to find a key in Ingrid Bergman’s hand. Magnolia (1999)Almost a companion piece to Altman’s Short Cuts, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 collection of interlocking stories in Los Angeles has an urgent longing; these are stories of people who are trying their best and failing, and begging for forgiveness. One of his lesser known titles, made after the magisterial The Travelling Players (1975), The Hunters exists in multiple time periods between 1949 and 1976, and features a temporal-law shattering shot that crosses eras without a cut, as a man walks from the beach into town, from 1949 to 1963. We wouldn’t necessarily suggest marathoning these films back-to-back, but watching them one at a time is an experience worth clearing your schedule for. "1917," with its high-octane action, large cast and ever-changing mis-en-scene, opted to stitch together takes up to nine minutes long -- and yes, though marketed as a … What would Welles have made of the virtuosic ostentation of this year’s Birdman? Tess (1979)An adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, which you possibly read in high school, Roman Polanski’s film is dedicated to his late wife Sharon Tate — who was murdered by the Manson Family — which makes it a predictably heavy affair*. He only kicks a moderate amount of ass in this one. Nevertheless, it shares the same essential qualities as those later films in that it relies more on mood and atmosphere … The story follows a small group of survivors in an unknown nuclear war-torn land, as the world is coming to an end. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. The film follows three men – the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) — as they travel through a mysterious and … With the 1998 reconstruction of Touch of Evil back on the big screen as part of BFI Southbank’s comprehensive Welles retrospective, we took a look at some other virtuoso long takes in cinema, whether Welles would approve or not. Director Hou Hsiao-HsienCinematography Pin Bing Lee, Watch the opening shot from Flowers of Shanghai (1998). Like a chill senior’s valedictory address, Endgame mixes good-humored winks with a misty-eyed reverence for everything that’s come before while never wearing out its welcome. While they were originally made for television, the parts of Dekalog certainly feel cinematic in nature; whether you consider them TV or film, which is becoming an increasingly less-meaningful description, they are all unapologetically art. The girl is leaving. The Player (8:05) Robert Altman introduces viewers to all The Player’s major characters in his film’s … Schindler’s List (1993)If you don’t cry watching Stephen Speilberg’s most personal and devastating movie, you may just be made of stone. Its depictions of ancient religion and ambiguity about politics got this film censored for years. Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown really did meet up in a Florida motel in 1964. What’s that, Mel Gibson and Laurence Olivier? And removes the three “saves” typically incorporated into the selection process. Propaganda as cinephile fever-dream, in I Am Cuba it’s almost impossible to pick a single sequence shot from the sheer number of awe-inspiring visual miracles Mikhail Kalatozov pulls off. Who’s Been Lie Lie Lying? Andrei Rublev (1966) is Tarkovsky's longest film, at 205 minutes, and is a Biopic of medieval Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, focusing on his role in creating the Russian Christian identity. 15 January 2021. But while the separate parts do have some differences — part one focuses on Stacy Martin’s Young Joe and is slightly less dark; part two concentrates on Charlotte Gainsbourg’s older Joe and is, uh, really dark — they really do make one large, disturbing whole and, in that way, are consummate von Trier. Log in or link your magazine subscription, Anne Hathaway Rebranding as ‘Annie’ Won Late Night This Week. Andrei Tarkovsky is arguably the patron saint of long films, and at 205 minutes, Andrei Rublev — his reflection on medieval Russia and the role of the Christian artist — is his longest film To be fair, only Part One features a rampaging Uma Thurman, but you should still watch both. After all, if you think about it like a TV series, 312 minutes is a bargain — that’s like one episode of Game of Thrones. The first film to be awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes for both its director and lead actresses, this engrossing coming-of-age story follows young Adèle (newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos) as she discovers untapped sexual desire with a blue-haired art student (Léa Seydoux). Jennifer Lopez Plays Little Mermaid, Big Snowman in Her ‘In the Morning’ Video. You decided to cut Hamlet, the greatest drama in the English language, in order to make it “shorter,” “more cinematic,” and “not four hours long”? 90 minutes epic of the Swedish tarkovsky longest movie, but it ’ s what people about! 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