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bluetoast 02-14-11 04:50 PM

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.

terrible chong 02-14-11 05:06 PM

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.

Eric D. 02-14-11 07:24 PM

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

/thread

terrible chong 02-14-11 07:50 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by Eric D. (Post 10638607)
Russian Ark.

/thread

96 minutes. thread on!

bluetoast 02-14-11 07:51 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
Plus I intentionally left it open ended by saying "movies".

EdTheRipper 02-14-11 07:53 PM

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.

Luther Heggs 02-14-11 07:55 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
Sleep

terrible chong 02-14-11 08:00 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by Luther Heggs (Post 10638662)

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

Troy Stiffler 02-14-11 10:09 PM

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.

JumpCutz 02-14-11 10:13 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
^ Damn you stiffler. I came in here to post that. :mad2:

terrible chong 02-14-11 10:22 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by troystiffler (Post 10638907)
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

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113972/

majorjoe23 02-14-11 11:23 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
Highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.

Mondo Kane 02-15-11 01:24 AM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by majorjoe23 (Post 10639015)
highlander was a documentary, filmed in real time.

:clap:

Luther Heggs 02-15-11 07:46 AM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by troystiffler (Post 10638907)
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

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
Slow motion?? I didn't know that. troystiffler, I rescind your claim of thread-winning

Jay G. 02-15-11 08:56 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by Luther Heggs (Post 10639273)
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

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by EdTheRipper (Post 10638657)
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

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

Charlie Goose 02-15-11 11:24 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
The Shawshank Redemption

Ash Ketchum 02-16-11 09:46 AM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 

Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 10640478)
The Shawshank Redemption

It only seemed that long!:D

TheySentYou 02-16-11 05:01 PM

Re: Longest movies that take place in real time?
 
Satantango? 6.5 hours. i can't remember exactly if that qualifies for "real time"?


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