You could spend hours more just trying to understand what it all means. Tim Robbins’s philandering motorcycle cop, Lyle Lovett’s angry baker, Jennifer Jason Leigh’s phone-sex operator are all disconnected from other people but connected to each other in a kind of longing for connection.
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It’s an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short stories and poems, interweaving nine stories and 22 characters in Los Angeles, careening together through a series of accidents. This isn’t Robert Altman’s first anthology movie, but it might be his best.
This movie, which follows the dogged attempts of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) as he attempts to discover the conspiracy he’s convinced killed the president, is the reason why you know of the Warren Report, and at the time of its release spawned - or simply released from the shadows - an industry of rabid theory-mongering and distrust in government agencies that has a direct line to 9/11 conspiracy theorists and even the rise of Donald Trump. Kennedy is, frankly, the film you will remember when you’re old and gray. Oliver Stone’s Nixon was also long enough to make this list, but the director’s thriller about the assassination of John F.
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While they were originally made for television, the parts of Dekalog certainly feel cinematic in nature whether you consider them TV or film, which is becoming an increasingly less-meaningful description, they are all unapologetically art. As if those three films weren’t enough, Dekalog basically represents ten more masterworks, each based on one of the Ten Commandments. Rereleased by the Criterion Collection, Dekalog is the ten-part triumph of the great Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, best known for his Three Colors trilogy. And remember that Hattie McDaniel was the first African American actor to win an Oscar, and think how far - or not so far - we’ve come*. Come for the Technicolor journey through the antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, and stay for the tempestuous relationship between bullheaded Scarlett O’Hara (the magnificent Vivien Leigh) and dashing rogue Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
You may cringe with the outdated attitudes toward race in this epic romance, which, adjusted for inflation, still has the biggest box-office intake of all time, but boy, does the story still hold up.
We wouldn’t necessarily suggest marathoning these films back-to-back, but watching them one at a time is an experience worth clearing your schedule for. Some of these long movies inflate the familiar three-act structure to epic proportions, while others use their expanded lengths to stretch out and wander into unexpected places. There’s something to be said for movies that get in and out in under 90 minutes, but there’s also a distinct pleasure in watching those movies whose run times sprawl out beyond three hours - especially if you happen to, say, be quarantined at home for extended periods of time. This story was originally published in 2016 and has been updated to include more movies.
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