Fellow TwitchFilm writer Kurt Halfyard knows of my overwhelming fondness for cinematic experiences of unusual length. He and I will often seek out the one ticket in the Toronto International Film Festival’s annual program that will see us sitting in the darkened Cinema 4 till our posteriors have gone numb and most normal folks would have long since retreated to the lobby for a snack.
As movie run times become more and more templated, there’s something appealing about any film that asks a different level of discipline of its audience. One such film is Edward Yang’s 1991 epic A Brighter Summer Day, which stretches a bladder-busting 3 hours and 56 minutes without so much as an intermission – making Tarantino’s roadshow version of The Hateful 8 seem like a hot stone massage by comparison.
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