Today (December 14th), the editor compiled today’s cold knowledge for everyone, the ten longest movies in the world beyond imagination, two of which are about China, let’s take a look. !
NO.10 "1900"
318 minutes, the famous Italian director Bertolucci (made "The Last Emperor" and other works) 1976 works, is also one of his most famous works.
The epic masterpiece "Ninety Zero" directed by the famous Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, is based on the turbulent period of Italian society in the early 20th century. It spans 40 years and tells the story of class contradictions and family disputes. Stories of hatred and resistance. The film was regarded as a class struggle film reader by Western countries. With the bold scale of the plot, the film was banned for a long time.
NO.9 "Sleep"
321 minutes, still shot by Andy Warhol, as the name suggests is to take a picture of a guy sleeping.
On the 50th anniversary of Warhol's avid movie "Sleep", Andy Warhol took the risk and decided to remake this classic movie. "Sleep" due to technical limitations, Andy can not be completed according to his plan, but this version can be done, there is no cycle, only 8 hours of sleep.
NO.8 "Empire State Building"
485 minutes, Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) documentary, the camera was motionless against the Empire State Building for more than 8 hours.
"Empire State Building" is a black and white silent film produced by American artist Andy Warhol and premiered in 1964. The set is 8 hours and 5 minutes. The content is only the changes of the Empire State Building in New York City within 8 hours. The purpose of Warhol's production of this movie is to create a movie with very low viewing quality, so he prohibits people from cutting the plot of the movie. However, in 2000, an Italian artist Queyu co-produced a 60-minute condensed version of this film with the Andy Warhol Museum.
NO.7 "War and Peace"
is a Soviet film in 1968. The length of the British release is 511 minutes, and the length of the US release is reduced to 373 minutes.
The former Soviet version of "War and Peace" in 1968 took five years to complete and cost up to 560 million U.S. dollars. It is the most expensive film in film history and has a pivotal position in Soviet film history. The filming of the film received great assistance from the Soviet military. In the history of world film, this film has become one of the most used extras. With its grand scenes and epic lens language, this magnificent six-and-a-half-hour long film perfectly presents the vast historical picture of the Russian land during the Russo-French War. It also faithfully reproduces Tolstoy’s novels. Great book.
NO.6 "Tiexi District"
551 minutes. A documentary of Wang Bing of China. Tiexi District is a concentrated area of Shenyang's heavy industrial enterprises. The film records the state of people when factories gradually closed down between 1999 and 2001, and the planned economic system model gradually collapsed.
NO.5 "The Catastrophe"
566 minutes, Claude Lanzmann (Claude Lanzmann) filmed documentary, the content is to look for people related to the Jewish massacre during World War II. It took 13 years from shooting to completion and it was officially released. The longest of the movies.
"Havoc" is not only an excellent historical document, a detailed description of the Nazi extermination machine, but also a long slogan, which brings the audience into a metaphysical experience and to the root of barbarism.
"Havoc" contains a huge amount of journalist work. It is a model for investigation and interviews, but it is more than just reporting. It is also a film masterpiece (especially its editing), which combines dozens of hours of interviews in a way of answering, colliding, and connecting each other, asking "why" repeatedly but never getting an answer, because the horror is gone. Commensurate. Claude Lanzman said: "The film "The Catastrophe" is about the absoluteness of death, not the survivors. Surviving is another story."
NO.4 "The Evolution of a Filipino Family"
643 minutes (nearly 11 hours). Director Lav Diaz used an extended black and white lens to observe the changes of a family that spanned sixteen years.
NO.3 "The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountain"
763 minutes, documentary master Joris Ivens filmed in China in the 1970s. The 12-episode series completed in 5 years recorded all aspects of Chinese society at that time. You can see from the title of each episode: "Daqing Oilfield" (84 minutes), "Shanghai Third Medical Store" (75 minutes), "Shanghai Electric Factory" (131 minutes), "A Woman, A Family" "(110 minutes), "Fishing Village" (104 minutes), "A Barracks" (56 minutes), "The Story of the Ball" (19 minutes), "Professor Qin" (12 minutes), "Peking Opera Rehearsal" (30 minutes) , "Beijing Acrobatic Troupe Practice" (18 minutes), "Handicraft Artist" (15 minutes), "Impression of Shanghai" (60 minutes).
NO.2 "The Longest and Most Meaningless Movie in the World"
48 hours (2880 minutes), released in August 1968 at the London Art Laboratory.
NO.1 "Treatment of Insomnia"
87 hours (5220 minutes), an American film in 1987, was screened in full from January 31 to February 3, 1987. The content of the film is mainly about a person reading poetry there. (It is estimated that watching this movie is really effective for insomnia~~ It is said that the trailers at the time are all 45 minutes long!)
