![]() ![]() Projectionists typically ran silent films at 16 or 18 frames per second-only with the advent of synchronized sound was the modern frame rate of 24 frames per second adopted as the industry standard. The movie ran 193 minutes, and sometimes other lengths, depending on the frame rate at which it projected. Griffith’s silent 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation is usually cited more for its technical advancement of cinematic storytelling-and for its vile Lost Cause-inspired depiction of Black characters-than for its length. What were the first movies with epic run times?ĭ.W. There have always been long movies, but these kinds of movies, as opposed to prestige Oscar-bait or artsy endeavors, have never before been this long. But the bloat doesn’t always take a generation or two: This spring’s John Wick: Chapter 4 clocked in at 169 minutes-68 minutes longer than the original John Wick in 2014. That same year saw the release of the 83-minute Disney animated classic The Little Mermaid its live-action remake swims into cinemas next weekend with a super-sized run time of 135 minutes, a 63 percent increase from its ancestor. ![]() Last year’s The Batman ran 176 minutes, 50 minutes longer than the Batman I begged my parents to drive me to on opening night in the summer of 1989. At 163 minutes, 2021’s No Time to Die was the longest entry in the 60-year-old James Bond franchise by a quarter of an hour. Popcorn flicks, in particular, have swelled over the last generation. ![]() (The movie was divided into a Part I and Part II for its commercial release later that year.) Dead Souls, a Chinese documentary that played at the 2018 festival, runs a mammoth 495 minutes.Īs someone who regards the uninterrupted theatrical movie-watching experience as sacred-and who was in fact diagnosed with a blood clot roughly 24 hours after sitting through an intermission-less 209-minute screening of Scorsese’s The Irishman in 2019-movie run times are something I notice. The Italian historical drama The Best of Youth, which premiered at the festival in 2003, spans 366 minutes in its “theatrical” cut. The $200 million adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction best seller was originally rumored to weigh in at nearly four hours, but even if that had proved true, the 80-year-old Scorsese’s new film-which won’t open in cinemas until October, some weeks before it appears on Apple TV+-would still be nothing close to the longest feature to debut at Cannes. No bad movie is short enough.”ĭirector Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon will premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival this weekend with a run time of 3 hours and 26 minutes. Roger Ebert, the beloved film critic who died in 2013 having done more than anyone else in history to turn arguing about movies into a mainstream American sport, once observed that “No good movie is too long. ![]()
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