2006-08-23 16:13:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The correct answer is Cleopatra, at just over 4 hours. ( Yes, there are those offbeat movies anwhere from 12 -85 hours) But I'm guessing You wanted modern-day, movies that people have actually seen or at least heard about.
2006-08-23 16:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by Joanne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
various long movies have been made purely for the sake of being long, like the 85 hour Cure For Insomnia. Given that it's just made up of bits of petry recitals, rock concerts and pornography, most people wouldn't class it as a real film.
Edgar Reitz' excellent 15 hour 40 minute film Heimat was made to be shown on TV in episodes, but it has been shown in marathon cinema screenings as has Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acclaimed Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hour 20 mins). Reitz has made two sequels: Heimat 2 runs 25 1/2 hours, Heimat 3 a mere 12. Heimat 2 has the Guinness World Record for 'Longest Film Commercially Shown In Its Entirety'.
Other good long films are Christine Edzard's 6 hour film of Little Dorrit (starring Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness), Abel Gance's Napoleon (originally 9 hours, although only a 7 1/2 hour version survives), Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 hour Holocaust documentary Shoah and Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition (10 hours). All the films mentioned here (apart from Cure For Insomnia) are well worth seeing.
2006-08-23 16:19:54 · answer #2 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The longest movie ever is king Kong
2006-08-23 16:26:56 · answer #3 · answered by singingjewel2005 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone With The Wind
2006-08-23 16:19:56 · answer #4 · answered by Belledeau Brat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would guess the original (soviet-made) Solaris or the uncut version of Das Boot would be the longest movies with a mainstream theatre release.
2006-08-23 16:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by Kelli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it would be the Ten Commandments. Charlton Heston played Moses and Yul Brenner played Pharaoh. Ben Hur is another really long movie, also starring Charlton Heston.
2006-08-23 16:30:19 · answer #6 · answered by Papa WILL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that would be Gone with the Wind, but The English Patient seemed to go on for years and years and years.... I had cobwebs by the time it finished.. lol
2006-08-23 16:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by Squishygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MOVIE? I think "spirits of love" chinese movie is the longest.
2006-08-23 16:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by locker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Out of Africia
2006-08-23 16:18:42 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the rings i would say it would depend on how old you are. Old people will say older movies.
2006-08-23 16:21:52 · answer #10 · answered by CHAEI 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋