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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 26, 2021 3:24:35 GMT
Logistics, a Swedish experimental film from 2012. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or more than 35 days) it traces the journey in real time of a pedometer in reverse chronological order from it’s sale in Stockholm to a factory in Baoán, China. Can’t imagine anyone watching the whole thing (from what I can gather the bulk of it consists of a camera mounted on top of a container ship), or if it’s even possible to view it anywhere. It was initially shown as an installation at a Library in Sweden. There a 72 minute “micro-cut” showing two minutes of footage from each day of the actual film (a mere 1/720 of the entire film) available on YouTube. This gives you a glimpse of what it entails, but even that tested my patience a little and I’ve seen and enjoyed some pretty minimal/slow moving films.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jun 26, 2021 3:48:45 GMT
The Dark Knight Rises sure felt like it.
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Post by gw on Jun 26, 2021 4:01:26 GMT
I think that they'll find a way to create an endless film. It might be animated or animatronic but they've done it with music and it's only a matter of time until they find a way to do it with a movie.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jun 26, 2021 14:14:38 GMT
Seems to me like they were just trying to hold the record, but if you don't have a story to fill all that time, what the hell's the point? Might as well be Warhol filming the Empire State Building for eight hours...
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jun 26, 2021 16:27:58 GMT
According to Wikipedia, the longest non-experimental film ever made is 21 hours, which is more insane to me.
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Post by James on Jun 26, 2021 17:17:38 GMT
I thought that was Satantango (over 7 hours) or something. I get that it’s experimental and for that it probably isn’t meant to be watched, but why?
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 26, 2021 17:48:22 GMT
I thought that was Satantango (over 7 hours) or something. I get that it’s experimental and for that it probably isn’t meant to be watched, but why? Just think of it like a mini-series. Satantango is meant to be watched and it is apparently very good. Sátántangó (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːtaːntɒŋɡoː]; meaning 'Satan's Tango') is a 1994 Hungarian epic drama film directed by Béla Tarr. Shot in black-and-white, it runs for more than seven hours. It is based on the 1985 novel Satantango by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who had been providing Tarr with stories since his 1988 film Damnation. Tarr had wanted to make the film since 1985 but was unable to proceed with the production due to the strict political environment in Hungary. In the years since its release, Sátántangó has received wide acclaim from film critics. In 2012, it appeared in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' top fifty films.
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Post by James on Jun 26, 2021 17:57:10 GMT
I thought that was Satantango (over 7 hours) or something. I get that it’s experimental and for that it probably isn’t meant to be watched, but why? Just think of it like a mini-series. It is a movie that I am guessing most people watch in parts. Mini-series are more or less one long movie. Satantango is meant to be watched and it is apparently very good. I guess that's true, but it's still just watching nothing happening except days going by and a few movements. There isn't anything to be gained from watching it whatsoever unless you want to be up for a Try Not to Sleep challenge. I only saw 1 review of Satantango and it said how boring it is. But then it has a 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. Hmm...
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Post by James on Jun 26, 2021 17:57:56 GMT
I thought that was Satantango (over 7 hours) or something. I get that it’s experimental and for that it probably isn’t meant to be watched, but why? Just think of it like a mini-series. Satantango is meant to be watched and it is apparently very good. Sátántangó (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːtaːntɒŋɡoː]; meaning 'Satan's Tango') is a 1994 Hungarian epic drama film directed by Béla Tarr. Shot in black-and-white, it runs for more than seven hours. It is based on the 1985 novel Satantango by Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, who had been providing Tarr with stories since his 1988 film Damnation. Tarr had wanted to make the film since 1985 but was unable to proceed with the production due to the strict political environment in Hungary. In the years since its release, Sátántangó has received wide acclaim from film critics. In 2012, it appeared in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' top fifty films. Yeah, interesting.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 26, 2021 18:05:08 GMT
Just think of it like a mini-series. It is a movie that I am guessing most people watch in parts. Mini-series are more or less one long movie. Satantango is meant to be watched and it is apparently very good. I guess that's true, but it's still just watching nothing happening except days going by and a few movements. There isn't anything to be gained from watching it whatsoever unless you want to be up for a Try Not to Sleep challenge.I only saw 1 review of Satantango and it said how boring it is. But then it has a 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. Hmm... There is for people who are into these kind of art films. There are a ton of reviews of the movie on IMDB and many call it a masterpiece.
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Post by James on Jun 26, 2021 18:39:52 GMT
I guess that's true, but it's still just watching nothing happening except days going by and a few movements. There isn't anything to be gained from watching it whatsoever unless you want to be up for a Try Not to Sleep challenge.I only saw 1 review of Satantango and it said how boring it is. But then it has a 100 on Rotten Tomatoes. Hmm... There is for people who are into these kind of art films. There are a ton of reviews of the movie on IMDB and many call it a masterpiece. Even then it doesn't seem like a movie I'd watch anytime soon. Do you want to see it?
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 26, 2021 19:06:59 GMT
There is for people who are into these kind of art films. There are a ton of reviews of the movie on IMDB and many call it a masterpiece. Even then it doesn't seem like a movie I'd watch anytime soon. Do you want to see it? Eventually.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jun 26, 2021 22:06:09 GMT
I hope I shall never meet the insane people who conceived and shot it.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 27, 2021 0:28:03 GMT
Seems to me like they were just trying to hold the record, but if you don't have a story to fill all that time, what the hell's the point? Might as well be Warhol filming the Empire State Building for eight hours... Like Empire, the film isn't meant to be watched in it's entirety, I doubt even the filmmakers themselves have seen the whole thing. It's more a conceptual piece.
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 27, 2021 0:35:32 GMT
I watched the Soviet version of War and Peace which clocked in at 431 minutes. It actually was well done but it was exhausting even split into two sessions. I can’t imagine trying to tackle this. Conceptually it’s kind of interesting, I used to work in port operations and had a friend in logistics.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 27, 2021 0:36:09 GMT
There is for people who are into these kind of art films. There are a ton of reviews of the movie on IMDB and many call it a masterpiece. Even then it doesn't seem like a movie I'd watch anytime soon. Do you want to see it? I've seen Satantango 3 times (twice in more or less ine sitting) and consider it one of my favorite films. It certainly isn't going to appeal to everyone and does require some investment on the viewers part. It is slow moving, but things do happen (probably similarly paced to Tarkovsky), and visually it's stunning, shot entirely in fluid long takes. Once you get into it's rhythms, it's quite hypnotic. Logistics is a completely different matter, honestly can't imagine anyone watching more than an hour or two of that.
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 27, 2021 0:46:26 GMT
Even then it doesn't seem like a movie I'd watch anytime soon. Do you want to see it? I've seen Satantango 3 times (twice in more or less ine sitting) and consider it one of my favorite films. It certainly isn't going to appeal to everyone and does require some investment on the viewers part. It is slow moving, but things do happen ( probably similarly paced to Tarkovsky), and visually it's stunning, shot entirely in fluid long takes. Once you get into it's rhythms, it's quite hypnotic. Logistics is a completely different matter, honestly can't imagine anyone watching more than an hour or two of that. Tarkovsky movies aren't 7 hours long though.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 27, 2021 0:50:54 GMT
According to Wikipedia, the longest non-experimental film ever made is 21 hours, which is more insane to me. I guess as others have said you treat it more like a mini-series. I've not seen that film ( The Innocence) but I've seen Out 1 (approx 13 hours) and La Flor (approx 14 hours), both I watched over three days. Both are also pretty close in length to the entire LoTR trilogy (approx 11 hours) which many consider a single film entity and most people here have probably seen.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jun 27, 2021 0:53:39 GMT
I've seen Satantango 3 times (twice in more or less ine sitting) and consider it one of my favorite films. It certainly isn't going to appeal to everyone and does require some investment on the viewers part. It is slow moving, but things do happen ( probably similarly paced to Tarkovsky), and visually it's stunning, shot entirely in fluid long takes. Once you get into it's rhythms, it's quite hypnotic. Logistics is a completely different matter, honestly can't imagine anyone watching more than an hour or two of that. Tarkovsky movies aren't 7 hours long though. True, pace wise it's probably the best example I could think of. So it's like watching 2 and a half Tarkovsky films. Piece of piss 
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Post by moviemouth on Jun 27, 2021 0:55:37 GMT
Tarkovsky movies aren't 7 hours long though. True, pace wise it's probably the best example I could think of. So it's like watching 2 and a half Tarkovsky films. Piece of piss What about The Turin Horse? Is that movie more deliberately paced than Satantango? I like the movie quite a bit, but I think it is slower paced than most of Tarkovsky's movies.
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