Cinématon

Cinématon
Directed byGérard Courant
Release date
  • November 2009 (2009-11)
Running time
157 hours[1]

Cinématon is a 157-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant.[2]

It was the longest film ever released until 2011.[3][4] Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time.[5] Subjects of the film include directors Sergey Parajanov, Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley.[6] Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar.[3] Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby.[7] The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.[2][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Focus on Courant at Gulf Film Festival". Khaleej Times. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  2. ^ a b Cinématon (1984), retrieved 21 May 2019
  3. ^ a b "Vignettes from Gerard Courant's 175 hour long film 'Cinematon'". DangerousMinds. 21 July 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. ^ "The Longest Film of All-Time 'Modern Times Forever' Screening In Helsinki". The Film Stage. 23 March 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  5. ^ Fischer, Russ (11 November 2009). "Cinematon, The World's Longest Film At 150 Hours, To Screen In France". SlashFilm. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  6. ^ "150 hours and counting: the world's longest film goes on". The Independent. 9 November 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
  7. ^ "World's Longest Film Will Screen All 150 Hours of Running Time". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  8. ^ Mirror.co.uk (11 November 2009). "Record longest 6 day film Cinematon to hit French cinemas". mirror. Retrieved 21 May 2019.


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