"Pauline Kael said it was 'meditative', but I fell asleep."

People above do not know what slow films are.

search: l'avventura, in the mood for love
destroy: fanny and alexander

one more to destroy: russian ark

fanny and alexander is one of those things i have forgotten so much of i start to wonder if i am having memory issues: it was six hours long, and there was a fire, and possibly a lesbian?

i liked russian ark, though

there was everything, there was lyfe

i also like russian ark

Search: Seventh Continent (lots of Haneke actually)
Avoid: Inland Empire - unless you really like David Lynch, then you might like it.

what's that hungarian one that's like 8 hrs long

begins with an s......

destroy: ulysses' gaze (which i couldn't get more than an hour into, though it did have some wonderful shots)

― gear

oh man, i made it all the way to the end(over 3 hours iirc)
terrible

bela tarr's satantango! i went to see it by accident once. i made it through 3 hours but i was too hungry to go on.

netflix keeps recommending the Decalogue to me, is it worth seeing?

bela tarr's satantango! i went to see it by accident once

haha how can u wind up seeing something like this "by accident"??? were u looking for the other 8 hour hungarian epic that was playing and got the titles confused???

decalogue is enh

i haven't seen it but i want to. but it's 10 parts, not one 10-hour thing, so maybe it would be ok.

(xp)

well someone told me it was good, "but long" (lol) and i usually pay close attention to how long something is but for some reason i didn't even look before i went. i was like "that's weird that this starts at noon but ok" ughhhhhhhhhhh

also the guy talking before it announced how many reels it was, so every time a reel was over i was like "ok only x reels left." it was impossible.

i like the parts of decalogue i've seen, like 5-6. can you get it in parts?

yeah iirc the dvds have a couple parts on them each?

at least you didn't have to see it for a class ... our college's film studies program - the intro classes anyway - were almost entirely about testing the students' patience. It was very effective at weeding out people that just liked movies. Probably the most excruciating were Wavelength and Laura Mulvey's Riddles of the Sphinx.

Ashes of Time was pretty slow/good as I remember

the dvd set is set up like a tv on dvd thing - couple of episodes a disc pretty sure. also i mean obv its arresting and theres a lot there but its just pretty tedious and hard to invest in i think. and its kind of a trap because i think its a "better" to watch them all so u feel obligated but theyre pretty same-y too

I think I love most of the movies on this thread. I like to wrassle with unwieldy cinema.

i think the guy said satantango has less than 100 cuts in the entire 7.5 hours too. so a lot of it is just like, watching it rain over a muddy field

i would actually attempt to watch it again, but not in one day

xxpost I especially like Satantango, Inland Empire and Jeanne Dielman.

destroy: fanny and alexander

so wrong.

i really liked decalog and inland empire and andrei rublev too, f all u haters

former was pretentious 17 year old me's usual answer for "what's your favourite film". number of friends i made by doing this: none, ever

I will echo the statement/s upthread about the bell maker sequence at the end of Andrei Rublev. The whole film is A+ fantastic, but that finale is near transcendent.

destroy: fanny and alexander

so wrong.

― circa1916, Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah i know i'm the only one who hates this movie.

"Fanny" is nothing in the movie; it should have been called Alexander/

I especially like Satantango, Inland Empire and Jeanne Dielman.

co-sign on all of these

one more to destroy: the leopard (more because i don't get it, not because it's bad)

first 2 hours of the leopard are a bore, 3rd one is great.

This is a good thread for my Michael Snow story. A friend and I went to see Back and Forth at the AGO sometime in the mid-80s. Snow was there to speak after the film. After a brief intro, the floor was opened for questions. Dead silence--after an hour of watching a continuous pan, followed by a couple of minutes of Snow's somewhat chilly personality, I think everyone was intimidated. So my friend leans over and whispers, "Ask him what he thought of Ghostbusters." I had the worst, most awkward giggling fit of my life; the theatre stayed silent, and I practically had to wrap my coat around my head to avoid detection.

an hour of watching a continuous pan

Hate to be nitpicky but it's not a continuous pan.

I saw him earlier this decade and found him to be very warm and inviting. Maybe that has something to do with older age. Or maybe it's because he was speaking in French. Then again, he wasn't around for the screening of Presents... which is much harder to take than <--->.

so what did he think of ghostbusters

didn't like l'avventura, LOVE Fanny and Alexander though I've only seen the standard film version, not the 5+whatever hour TV version.

i stand by my ulysses' gaze comment

fanny and alexander is dope

s: time out

man, this thread is really making me wanna see Andrei Rublev. i've loved the other Tarkovsky movies i've seen.

not sure if someone already said this, but Tokyo Story(!).

also, i think these fit, some might disagree: Through a Glass Darkly, Mouchette, The Trial, Eraserhead (and any other Lynch you might wanna include, including Inland Empire), Aguirre, Days of Heaven, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Sunset Boulevard.

i thought it was odd to see Barry Lyndon on this thread, i mean it is really long and there are some scenes that are drawn out, but its so freaking funny and entertaining and poignant.

in my experience these types of movies work waaaaay better when you watch them alone. its hard to relax enough to really enjoy them when other people are around, even if everyone is enjoying it, i find its hard to really forget yourself and get lost in it.

i watched a 4-hour japanese movie about upskirts and boners yesterday

"meditative" is a pretty great euphemism

andrei rublev is my fave of the tarkovskys i've seen. mirror bored me stiff.

Mouchette is pretty great.

i liked mirror too

otoh:

tarkovsky movies i have dozed off at least slightly at some point in their duration —

mirror
andrei rublev
solaris
stalker

tarkovsky movies i remained conscious throughout their entire duration —

the sacrifice

so, you know, even i don't really trust my opinions on tarkovsky