Cinématon (1978)
Cinématon (1978), directed by Gérard Courant, starring Gérard Courant and Alain-Alcide Sudre.
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Synopsis
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 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. Subjects of the film include directors 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. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
- Gérard CourantDirector, Producer
About the film
Cinématon is a 157-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant.
It was the longest film ever released until 2011. 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. 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, Murray Head, Ronee Blakley and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.
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Cinématon is a 157-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant.
It was the longest film ever released until 2011. 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. 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, Murray Head, Ronee Blakley and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach in April 2010.
See also
List of longest films by running time
References
External links
Cinématon on IMDb
Approx. 900 of the vignettes on YouTube
Text from Cinématon on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinématon
Trivia
- It premiered on December 20, 1978, a Wednesday.
- It runs 208h00 — well over the usual two hours.
- This film's quiz has 8 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.
Production
- StudiosK.O.C.K. Production, Les Amis de Cinématon
- CountriesFrance
- LanguagesNo Language
- StatusReleased
Cast
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Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000 - Alain-Alcide Sudre N°5
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Rose Lowder
N°6 -
Bernard Roué
N°7 -
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319 -
Katerina Thomadaki
N°9 - Martine Elzingre N°12
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Teo Hernández
N°16 / N°481 - Gaël Badaud N°17
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Joseph Morder
N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119 -
Martine Rousset
N°22 -
Michel Nedjar
N°27 -
Babette Mangolte
N°31 -
Raymonde Carasco
N°32 -
Stéphane Marti
N°33 -
Boris Lehman
N°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292 -
Raphaël Bassan
N°41 / N°1736 / N°2050 -
Michael Snow
N°44 -
Lionel Soukaz
N°47 -
F.J. Ossang
N°52
Quiz about this movie
Questions from the whole catalogue.
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- Gérard Courant Director
- Gérard Courant Producer
Questions about this film
What is Cinématon about?
Cinématon: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, jour…
Who directed Cinématon?
Cinématon was directed by Gérard Courant in 1978.
Who stars in Cinématon?
The cast of Cinématon includes Gérard Courant, Alain-Alcide Sudre, Rose Lowder, Bernard Roué and Dominique Noguez.
How long is Cinématon?
Cinématon runs for 12480 minutes, or 208h00.
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