His best films were before Goodfellas IMO and not v good since.
Ultra long movies
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Sir Belchalot
arenicola marina
Novecento is the longest one I’ve watched at 5 hours 17 minutes. Wouldn’t fancy sitting through it at a cinema but a perfect film to lose yourself in at home on a winter’s day.
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Oh, I saw that at the cinema (think there was an intermission). Enjoyed it.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
While the World Cinema Project is preserving and increasing the availability of some amazingly great films. I'd rather he concentrated on that.Haven't seen his latest one, but looking at his filmography, he hasn't made a good film since the 90s. And quite a few in the 2000s I've really, really hated. Dunno, maybe he needs to hang up his camera.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Intermissions returning perhaps
www.theguardian.com
Also lists a number of long films, most of which would suit a big screen, and perhaps an intermission
UK cinemagoers hail return of intermissions as films hit three-hour mark
Vue cinemas add an interval to Scorsese’s bladderbusting 206-minute Killers of the Flower Moon
Also lists a number of long films, most of which would suit a big screen, and perhaps an intermission
Steel Icarus
e le aulelei pe mauoa ae malie
Imo he's not hit the heights of earlier stuff but The Departed and Hugo are at least good films, if not excellentHaven't seen his latest one, but looking at his filmography, he hasn't made a good film since the 90s. And quite a few in the 2000s I've really, really hated. Dunno, maybe he needs to hang up his camera.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I thing the longest film I sat through without once feeling bored was Once Upon A Time In America. At home obvs, never making it through that length at the cinema without a piss and smoke break
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
I really liked Peter Greenaway's 3hr 15 mins The Falls, and have watched it a few times, but that's a mere bagatelle compared to some of the bum-numbers on this thread 
Probably helps that it consists of 91 short film biographies (supposedly 93 but one was supposedly removed 'on legal advice' and one is just missing, no explanation). Have also been for a few drinks with my bezzer in The Raven pub on Goldhawk Road which features in the film. 
Probably helps that it consists of 91 short film biographies (supposedly 93 but one was supposedly removed 'on legal advice' and one is just missing, no explanation). Have also been for a few drinks with my bezzer in The Raven pub on Goldhawk Road which features in the film. AnnO'Neemus
Is so vanilla
Link to the embedded video clip of Pete Davidson rapping 'Give me a short ass movie' on SNL.Intermissions returning perhaps
UK cinemagoers hail return of intermissions as films hit three-hour mark
Vue cinemas add an interval to Scorsese’s bladderbusting 206-minute Killers of the Flower Moon
Also lists a number of long films, most of which would suit a big screen, and perhaps an intermission
Tbh, I often search for '90 minute movies' when I want to watch something but it's late and I don't want to start watching something 2-3 hours long.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Same, but that's one of my favourite genres, so more inclined to give it a go. Fucked if I'd sit in a cinema for almost 4 hours on the off-chance that I might like it.
Oppenheimer, at 3hrs is about my limit for a cinema. I'm looking forward to Killers of The Flower Moon, but will wait til I can watch it at home.
hash tag
Reaching out
Well that took the shine off if it.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Link to the embedded video clip of Pete Davidson rapping 'Give me a short ass movie' on SNL.
Tbh, I often search for '90 minute movies' when I want to watch something but it's late and I don't want to start watching something 2-3 hours long.
“Uh, how long was The King Of Staten Island..?”
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It definitely lacked gloss
hash tag
Reaching out
Im guessing it didn't get coated
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
If anything it was undercoated
hash tag
Reaching out
Its all just a cover up.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Can't fault the blocking though
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Well, we saw it yesterday and it's still sinking in.
Oddly, I found the book better paced than the film. There's chunks of stuff about the Bureau and Tom White that has been left out. Guess a mini series would have perhaps delivered a bit more.
That said, the central 3 performances are phenomenal and if Lily Gladstone doesn't get an Oscar nod, there's no justice.
Speaking of which, the film is about justice, corruption, indifference and (if you know nothing about the true story) it will fill you with rage. The sense of horror is a slow build and the ending is.. let's just say it's a metaphor and makes sense when you think about it.
I don't think it will be for everyone.
Oddly, I found the book better paced than the film. There's chunks of stuff about the Bureau and Tom White that has been left out. Guess a mini series would have perhaps delivered a bit more.
That said, the central 3 performances are phenomenal and if Lily Gladstone doesn't get an Oscar nod, there's no justice.
Speaking of which, the film is about justice, corruption, indifference and (if you know nothing about the true story) it will fill you with rage. The sense of horror is a slow build and the ending is.. let's just say it's a metaphor and makes sense when you think about it.
I don't think it will be for everyone.
Orang Utan
Acceptable through usage
Anyone seen this?
en.m.wikipedia.org
At 87 hours, can’t say I’m too curious to seek it out
The Cure for Insomnia - Wikipedia
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
We went to KotFM today at a Vue, partly hoping it would have an intermission (some Vues do, but apparently not this one) and partly because we had free tickets. It actually didn't feel horribly long to me or my GF, which is surprising. However we deliberately avoided having any snacks, which helped.
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Must say, the Robbie Robertson score, along with the classic blues and country classics really added to the atmosphere.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
It was sorta repetitive in a way that worked very well to set the pace.
There were a few bits that could have been trimmed (for some reason they showed one guy dancing for about three minutes, for example), but it did still work.
An intermission would have been a plus, though. I'd have liked that time to talk about the film as well as get snacks, etc.
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Because of crap stomach, don't really eat or drink at films but don't mind if there's an intermission or not.
Last intermission (at the pictures - Cleopatra's has one on Disney+ iirc) I experienced was at a rerelease of 2001 and when The Godfather Part 3 was released.
I miss the documentaries and/or cartoons that would be shown before the main feature presentation back in the 70s and early 80s.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
An option would be nice. And some Vue cinemas are doing it, it's just not clear which ones.
There are quite a lot of people who just won't or can't go to a movie that's as long as this one, so they're losing customers.
Scorsese has been defending the length in a disappointingly predictable way, saying that people will watch lots of TV episodes in one go or go to the theatre for three or more more hours, totally missing the point. Maybe it's been so long since he went to a regular cinema that he doesn't realise intermissions aren't a thing (in the US and UK, at least, probably his two biggest markets).
krtek a houby
Satin is my master
Oh he knows. Himself or Thelma S were pissed off recently when cinemas added an intermission (somewhere in Europe)!
Used to enjoy a double bill where you had an intermission of sorts between the two films.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I feel like I'm promoting Vue by repeatedly mentioning that they've added one for some performances in the UK
That might well have been the source of his ire. Often you have to get permission to show with an interval if it's not a film festival.But I'm told that some countries in Europe - outuside thre UK and Ireland - do have intemissions for some long films, and apparently it's not uncommon in other parts of the world. Which countries do it, I'm not sure of (though I'd bet India does, and possibly Poland), but in any case it does happen.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
I remember having a cheeky ice cream from the curtained window at the front of the auditorium during the intermission between Mickey's Christmas Carol and The Jungle Book when they were run as a double-bill in 1983
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