(Stills from the movie "Sedek Bale")
Originally, the world's longest film was Denmark's "Modern Civilization Never Dies," a science fiction film that took 240 hours to show the transformation of a building's ruins and took more than a decade to screen it at the 2011 Helsinki Modern Art Festival.
However, a flashy Swede, Anders Weyborg, decided to set a new record by making a longer movie: 720 hours! The film, called Ambiance, released a 72-minute advance trailer a few months ago. According to the plan, an official trailer of 7 hours and 20 minutes will be released in two years, and the final trailer will be released in 2018, which will be 72 hours against the sky. This is basically equivalent to watching 6 Star Wars, 5 Batman, 3 Lord of the Rings, and 8 Harry Potter movie marathons, and then get a good night's sleep.
Once upon a time in 1987, the world's longest film was The Insomnia Cure in the United States, which lasted 87 hours and had almost no plot, from beginning to end, an artist reciting his lengthy poems for three and a half days. Earlier, in 1970, the British also made a 48-hour film with a very simple name: "The Longest and Most Boring Movie in the World.""
The director's world, don't guess if you don't understand.
For example, in the Philippines, there is a widowed independent director Lav Diaz, who always seems to have a superhuman perception of time, because his films are particularly long, really special and long.
2001, Soul Break West, 315 minutes;
2005, The Evolution of a Filipino Family, 647 min.
2006, Apocalypse of Jeremiah, 540 minutes;
2008, "Depression", 450 minutes;
Last year, Lav Diaz made the shortest film in his life, The End of History, which lasted 250 minutes.
(Stills from "The End of History")
Lav Diaz's new film this year is the 338-minute Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon. Lav Diaz, 56, is the darling of many international film festivals and has won many awards himself. Therefore, he probably can only see his masterpieces at film festivals. Perhaps it is rare to be able to enter the theater and become a classic feature film, such as the 238-minute "Gone with the Wind", the 212-minute "Bin Hu", the 216-minute "Lawrence of Arabia", and the 243-minute "Cleopatra".
All along, film history has reserved their rightful place for super long shots. For example, the ten movies that I want to introduce today.
1, "Dr. Mabus the Player" (1922, Germany, 297 min.)
Directed by Fritz Lang
People always like to use words like "prophecy" to describe the foresight of a work, and this description also applies to Dr. Mabus the Player. The plot of the film is about Dr. Mabus, a criminal genius who is proficient in psychology, in Germany at the beginning of the last century, using various techniques, including hypnosis, transfiguration, gambling, etc., to completely control the victim in the palm of his hand. In 1923, the year after the film's release, Hitler launched the Beer Hall Rebellion in Munich, which, despite the attempted coup, was Hitler's first attempt to seize power.
Eleven years later, in 1933, the director filmed the sequel "The Will of Dr. Mabus", And Mabus was arrested and taken to a mental hospital, but he still spoke wildly and gave orders, and even after his death, there were still people outside who carried out his instructions... The film's innuendo to Hitler's Nazi rule was so obvious that Goebbels, who was in charge of propaganda at the time, forbade the film to be shown in the country. Fritz Lang, a Jewish director, also divorced his wife that year and began his exile. Fritz Lang returned to Germany in 1958 and filmed Dr. Mabbus's One Thousand Eyes in 1961.
2, "Human Conditions" (1959, Japan, 579 min.)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Masaki Kobayashi was one of Japan's greatest post-World War II film directors, and his epic masterpiece Conditions on Earth, set in Northeast China (Manchuria) in 1943, tells the story of Kaji, the hero who opposed Japanese militarism in the late Pacific War, who fought for humanitarianism for the rest of his life. The film is divided into six films and is one of the representative works of Japanese anti-war films.
3, War and Peace (1968, Soviet Union, 427 min.)
Directed by: Sergei Bondarchuk
It was a majestic, majestic blockbuster that played a pivotal role in the history of Soviet cinema and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (don't forget, it was during the Cold War). The film is basically faithful to Tolstoy's original work, recreating the historical picture of the vast land of Russia during the Russo-French War. The filming of the film was even heavily assisted by the Soviet military, which recruited 12,000 extras in order to make the number of troops in the film the same as the number of participants in the actual battle.
War and Peace has been released in more than 80 countries, but the version is edited slightly differently.
4, "Out" (1971, France, 773 min.)
Directed by Jacques Rivette
This is a rare work by the French New Wave master Jacques Rivette. Because it was too long, the French Radio and Television Office refused its request for screening. In 1974, the director re-edited a 4-hour, 20-minute condensed version of Ghost (meaning this is the original Shadow Ghost) to be released in Paris, but the scope of the release was small. The film is based on Balzac's novel The Story of The Thirteen, set in the aftermath of the May Revolution in France in 1968, when the social climate in France was sluggish.
5, Once Upon a Time in America (1984, USA, 251 min.)
Directed by: Sergio Leone
One of the "American trilogies" by Italian director Sergio Leone refers to three famous films set in the nearly 100-year history of the United States, the first two being "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in the Revolution". Set against the backdrop of New York's Jewish community and the entanglement of four childhood playmates who grew up together, Once Upon a Time in America is a gangster epic film depicting human conflicts such as friendship and antagonism, loyalty and betrayal, set against a backdrop of major events in American history, such as the Great Panic, Prohibition, and World War I.
Everyone knows that this is a classic, and the "behind-the-scenes news" around it is also innumerable, the most famous of which should be the director's rejection of "The Godfather" in order to prepare for "Once Upon a Time in America"; the saddest thing should be that when the film was released, the producers ignored the director's objections and arbitrarily shrank the film to 139 minutes, that is, the "American version" that was later criticized, And Leone's well-intentioned Proust structure was cut into a one-line direct narrative of "America" and "past" is difficult to find. After the film was released in the United States, the ratings were depressed at the box office, and director Sergio Leone was deeply affected, and did not make another film until his death in 1989, and "Once Upon a Time in America" became the last film of his life.
6, "Little Dooley" (1988, UK, 357 min.)
Directed by Christine Edzard
The film is adapted from the novel "Little Duli" by the famous British writer Dickens, divided into two parts, each about 3 hours, the upper part tells the story of the little Du li family because they can not repay the debt and was thrown into prison, the lower part tells the changes after their family has money. Screenwriter and director Christine Edzard recreates the social injustices of the Victorian era in Britain. Edzard was a former costume designer, so she was very demanding about visual details, and the overall visual effects of the film were eye-catching.
7, "Satan Tango" (1994, Hungary, 450 min.)
Directed by: Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr is one of Hungary's most prominent film directors, and "Satan Tango" is his most ambitious work and the perfect embodiment of his long-shot aesthetic to the extreme. The film uses a tango structure of "six steps before the sixth step", interspersed with stories about villagers seeking a way out after the disintegration of the Hungarian collective farms. Extraordinary long shots and precise scene scheduling sketch a poetic picture: a town completely isolated by mud and endless rainwater, a town where cattle pass through ruins, a ruined façade and cowshed... Each shot alone is enough to be called a masterpiece in the history of photography, and the film has a total of 620,000 frames.
8, Paris Commune (2000, France, 345 min.)
Directed by Peter Watkins
No one doesn't know about the Paris Commune, right? However, British director Peter Watkins' film is a redefinition of the "Paris Commune". Most of the hundreds of actors he selected had no acting experience, and he encouraged them to look directly at the cameras so that people watching the film could not help but feel that the people in the film were undergoing a collective hypnosis. In short, the last thing the director wants to express is that the history we see is the history that is suitable for the current dissemination, not the real history.
9. "Secret Lisbon" (2010, Portugal, 272 min.)
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
The film is regarded as director Raúl Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation since Remembrance of a Time like Water (think about who had to adapt Remembrance of a Time like Water into a movie). Based on the novel of the same name by the 19th-century Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, Lisbon tells the story of a jealous countess, a wealthy merchant and a young orphan who travel through Portugal, France, Italy, and Brazil, where they meet mysterious people.
10, "Sedek Bale" (2011, Taiwan, 276 min.)
Director: Wei Desheng
Heroic epic masterpiece. The film tells the story of mona rudao, the leader of the Mahepo Society of the Aboriginal Sidek tribe, who led the people to rebel against the Japanese government in 1930 under Japanese rule, and launched the Kirisha Incident. The title "Sedek Bale" comes from the language of the Sedek people and means "real people". Wei Desheng spent twelve years planning the film, and mobilized more than 20,000 people to participate in the filming of the film. In order to raise money, Wei Desheng even sold the house. He said: "I just want to gamble on the future."
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