In Praise of the Long Movie

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In Praise of the Long Movie
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Done poorly, the long movie is a mere slog, tnyfrontrow writes: “But, for the greats, such as Scorsese, it’s a canvas as big as the world.”

” is nearly as great, and in some ways even more ambitious and accomplished, and it runs three hours and twenty-nine minutes . The length of “Killers of the Flower Moon” comes as no surprise—and, given the mighty achievement to match the mighty length of Scorsese’s two longest fiction films, it’s odd and dismaying to imagine anyone, especially the potentates of Cannes , wishing that the forthcoming film would be any shorter.

What’s fascinating is that, commercially, length has often worked. Not only was Hollywood’s longtime box-office champion the nearly four-hour-long “” but, in Hollywood’s troubled fifties and sixties, such three-hour-plus films as “The Ten Commandments,” “Ben-Hur,” “Spartacus,” and “Lawrence of Arabia” were major hits . Then “Fiddler on the Roof,” “The Godfather: Part II,” and “The Deer Hunter” were among the biggest hits of the following decade.

The cruellest scandal is when critical opinion sides with the producers, bringing to mind the dictum that critics are like soldiers who fire on their own troops. One of the most appalling was the public assassination of Michael Cimino’s masterpiece, “,” which, at its original run time of three hours and thirty-nine minutes, was received by critics and by industry people at its première with bewilderment, hostility, and derision.

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