Your ideal length of a film

(my vote for 130-150 btw)

that screenshot from satantango is great, i thought i could never get tired of narcoleptic long takes of desolate hungarian plains but jancso managed it in 'the round up' (95 mins)

the relation between runtime and boredom isn't always obvious

what the actual blazing fuck, 25 of you savages

NAME ME 10 ALL-TIME MOVIES OTHER THAN LIKE VIDEODROME THAT FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY

110 mins pls

1. Killer of Sheep

2. Bicycle Thief (93 minutes total, but who watches credits?)

er Thieves

splits shd have been

>80
80-100
100-120
120-140
140<

imo

but then 80-100 wdve got like 60 votes so maybe not

haha milo please continue

3. Paths of Glory

dammit, Strangelove clocks in at 94

4. Lots of Chaplin/Marx Bros

5. Love & Death

and several other Allens

6. Wild Strawberries

7. Persona

8. Rashomon

Detour's pretty good I guess, not sure about 'all-time'

oh wait I forgot Bergman, also iirc 'Alphaville' is quite short and an all-timer of mine

9. Breathless

lol @ godard convergence

His Girl Friday is 92

10. Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2

ok you are not savages

but you're still wrong :D

I probably would have voted 90-110, but definitely would have voted 80-100.

would have voted 100-120 but can perfectly understand a vote for 80-100 - the number of A++ movies that fall between 90 and 100 minutes is frankly huge

One of Fantastic Mr Fos's many virtues was its 80 minute length. More, please!

*Fox

Pickpocket, L'argent, Mouchette, Lancelot du lac, Los olvidados, Viridiana, L'atalante, Umberto D., Sullivan's Travels, Palm Beach Story, 39 Steps, Cabinet of Dr. Calgari, Lift to the Scaffold, Pickup on South Street, Show Me Love, Lady From Shanghai, Battleship Potemkin all purty good

ok there is no doubting there are classics in the 70-90 range, but what I am saying is that there are enormously more in higher ranges

however, i guess the question is 'how long would you most often like a film to be' so all 25 of you just like films to be shorter maybe

There's some perfect 3-hour films but they're just gonna sit in my stack at home getting resented for weeks before i get to them. i checked out Petrified Forest last week - that little "82 minutes" on the back cover makes my face look like i'm about to tap some ass.

Novels should be within 50 pages/however many words that is of The Great Gatsby, btw.