Alan Alda?
Now this would make a great movie club.
I didnāt watch but itās Buddy Ebsen a famous song and dance man before his most famous part.
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But then youād have to watch Marvel movies and Titanic and Avatar
Barnaby Jones!
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Yes but with a movie club itās fine to hate a movie, because really youāre in it to share and discuss the experience with the rest of the club.
Hereās the list from 1915-2023:
How is Birth of a Nation over 3 hours long?
A: They used multiple reels (sarcastic answer)
B: In 1915, they hadnāt figured out how long a movie is āsupposed to beā so three hours didnāt seem as bonkers (serious answer)
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labor pains
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In that era, very few films ran over an hour. Itās absolutely effing bonkers that the KKK racist manifesto from Griffith ran that long.
idk, stage plays can run 3+ hours, so itās not so crazy to try to make a movie about that long.
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In the 60s to maybe the early 80s that would have been 22 reels. After that they might have gotten it down to 9 or 10 giant reels. In that era I have no idea how long film reels were but I doubt it was more than 5 minutes. What a pig f*** for the projectionist and later for the colorist and layback engineer when it was transferred to video. Also the person who had to create new film elements without setting themselves on fire.
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Wikipedia claims that it was 12 reels, although I donāt know how accurate that is. This article is fascinating.
Those reels must have weighed 50 pounds each. Thatās probably not how many reels were originally projected but maybe nitrate film had longer reels.
300 years of hate. 1 hour for each century.
Speaking of long-ass movies, do you guys want a real two-fisted noir drama about the Czech resistance punching and shooting Nazis as directed by Fritz Lang, aka the Master of Darkness? Of course you do, that movie is Hangmen Also Die! (1943), and it slaps. A little bit too much melodrama at times but you know your boy Fritz is going to make some stunning images with light and shadow. I thought it was super gripping and cathartic what with all the Nazi shit going down irl.
On Criterion and also free on Youtube, apparently.
Isnāt that Buddy Epsen?
Yes
I know that because Iām old, and my late mother loved talking about movies stars of the 30ās and 40ās.