11.11.2009


If you could venture to guess what the length of the longest film that has ever been made, you would most likely say something between 5 and 15 hours. Believe it or not, the longest film ever made doesn't even come close to that estimate. It has just been released in france, and when I came across it today the length just blew my mind. The total running time comes to a purely astounding 150 hours, that's 6 straight days of film watching. Now the background for this film is even more interesting. Apparently this film has been in production for 30 years ever since 1978 and it is a culmination of 2,242 - 3.5 minute segments that each feature a different celebrity, journalist, artist, or philosopher. These segments are each called Cinematons, thus the film is conveniently named Cinematon. While it takes home the prize for the longest film by any stretch of the imagination, it is also being called "the DULLEST film ever made". Not to mention that it is all silent footage that the director describes takes the viewer through "the whole spectrum of human emotions". As interesting as you could imagine this to be, the segments exhibit things like watching Jean-Luc Godard smoke [the picture above] or watching someone else just eat. I thought I had the ability to sit through long films, but unless you have superhuman patience for sitting through a film like, it could get old really quick. And even though it is not one straight story, I still would not recommend spending 6 days of your life watching this film. It's just too long.

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