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Old 02-14-11, 04:50 PM
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Longest movies that take place in real time?
For some reason I feel as if these types of movies top out at around 90 minutes, but I'm wondering if there are some other examples.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Was Dog Day Afternoon real-time? I haven't seen it in years, but IMDB says it's 2 hours and 5 minutes.
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Russian Ark.

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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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Russian Ark.

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96 minutes. thread on!
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Plus I intentionally left it open ended by saying "movies".
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
16 Blocks looks to have run 116 minutes.

The Romanian movie The Death of Mr Lazarescu has a listed run-time of 153 minutes.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Sleep
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Originally Posted by Luther Heggs
Whoa. Five hours of a guy sleeping. And it's called Sleep! That Andy Warhol was ... something.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7idi_5IaMrk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Eight hours of the empire state building. Eat it.

I think I won the thread. But I feel like I cheated.
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^ Damn you stiffler. I came in here to post that.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Originally Posted by troystiffler
I think I won the thread. But I feel like I cheated.
Nope. You win, fair and square! Thanks for the insight

Andy's title for his masterpiece: Empire
Genius!

I, myself, am working on my magnum opus: A nine hour static shot of my car!
Tentative title: Honda Accord
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113972/
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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Eight hours of the empire state building. Eat it.
Yeah, but it's in slow motion, therefore not in real time. Boo-ya!
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Slow motion?? I didn't know that. troystiffler, I rescind your claim of thread-winning
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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Yeah, but it's in slow motion, therefore not in real time. Boo-ya!
If it was played a full speed, it'd last 6 hours 36 minutes.

Also, they had to change reels on the camera, so there's gaps of time missing from the finished film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_%281964_film%29

Certainly not the longest, but one of the better real-time one-shot films is Running Time, which is 70 minutes long:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120042/
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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The Romanian movie The Death of Mr Lazarescu has a listed run-time of 153 minutes.
I saw that film, and I didn't think it was intended to be real time.

This review mentions that the events in the film unfold over around 5-6 hours:
http://filmjournal.net/filmclub/2006...-mr-lazarescu/
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
Wikipedia has a list of real time films, but doesn't seem very exact (it lists Clue as one example):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_time_%28media%29

There's also a list of films with the longest running times. The third place finisher on the list, The Cure for Insomnia, is 87 hours of an artist reading a 4,080 page poem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_running_time
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
The Shawshank Redemption
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Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
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The Shawshank Redemption
It only seemed that long!
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Satantango? 6.5 hours. i can't remember exactly if that qualifies for "real time"?
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