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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 95 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

thumbnail of The Brutalist (4 hrs long) okay perhaps not the best example

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And not exactly 4 hours of easy watching.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's not for the Marvel crowd but it's an amazing movie wIth world class cinematography and it sucks you in.

    It didn't seem like 4 hours at all to me.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    yeah i didn't regard it as a particular difficult film at all.

    but people are different and at different levels. tons of people in this thread seem to flip out at the notion some films aren't for everyone. not everyone reads at the same grade level, but for some reason the idea of films being at different levels is very offensive to folks.

    running a marathon is a lot harder than running a mile. and we have people who can't run a mile telling us marathons are stupid and shouldn't exist.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not a film student but I assume that long, comparatively difficult films by Tarkovsky, Ozu, etc are a lot of what the film students are watching and I would imagine that the professors are commentating on more recent developments

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Tarkovsky films are incredible but are a "watch once in your lifetime" sort of deal.

    I asked my grandmother if she had seen STALKER and she said yes, when it came out in theaters, like 40 years ago (in the USSR), and I asked if she was interested in re-watching it with her grandkids

    She said: "No. It's a very difficult film. A very difficult film. You watch it only once because you don't get the same feeling a second time"

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