Longest movies that take place in real time?

bluetoast · 02-14-11, 04:50 PM

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.

terrible chong · 02-14-11, 05:06 PM

Was Dog Day Afternoon real-time? I haven't seen it in years, but IMDB says it's 2 hours and 5 minutes.

Eric D. · 02-14-11, 07:24 PM

Russian Ark.

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terrible chong · 02-14-11, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Eric D.

Russian Ark.

/thread

96 minutes. thread on!

bluetoast · 02-14-11, 07:51 PM

Plus I intentionally left it open ended by saying "movies".

EdTheRipper · 02-14-11, 07:53 PM

16 Blocks looks to have run 116 minutes.

The Romanian movie The Death of Mr Lazarescu has a listed run-time of 153 minutes.

Luther Heggs · 02-14-11, 07:55 PM

Sleep

terrible chong · 02-14-11, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Luther Heggs

Sleep

Whoa. Five hours of a guy sleeping. And it's called Sleep! That Andy Warhol was ... something.

troystiffler · 02-14-11, 10:09 PM

Eight hours of the empire state building. Eat it.

I think I won the thread. But I feel like I cheated.

JumpCutz · 02-14-11, 10:13 PM

^ Damn you stiffler. I came in here to post that.

terrible chong · 02-14-11, 10:22 PM

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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

whotony · 02-14-11, 10:41 PM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113972/

majorjoe23 · 02-14-11, 11:23 PM

Highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.

Mondo Kane · 02-15-11, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by majorjoe23

highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.

Luther Heggs · 02-15-11, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by troystiffler

Eight hours of the empire state building. Eat it.

Yeah, but it's in slow motion, therefore not in real time. Boo-ya!

terrible chong · 02-15-11, 07:52 AM

Slow motion?? I didn't know that. troystiffler, I rescind your claim of thread-winning

Jay G. · 02-15-11, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Luther Heggs

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/

Jay G. · 02-15-11, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by EdTheRipper

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/

Jay G. · 02-15-11, 09:14 PM

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

Charlie Goose · 02-15-11, 11:24 PM

The Shawshank Redemption

Ash Ketchum · 02-16-11, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose

The Shawshank Redemption

It only seemed that long!

TheySentYou · 02-16-11, 05:01 PM

Satantango? 6.5 hours. i can't remember exactly if that qualifies for "real time"?

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Jay G. DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 11,125	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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