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Cinématon
Film / 1978

Cinématon

Directed by Gérard Courant
Documentary

★ 4.9/10Audience rating

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 …

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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.

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Babette MangolteN°31 Raymonde CarascoN°32 Stéphane MartiN°33 Boris LehmanN°34 / N°468 / N°1463 / N°2292 Raphaël BassanN°41 / N°1736 / N°2050 Michael SnowN°44 Lionel SoukazN°47 F.J. OssangN°52 Gina Lola BenzinaN°53 Erwin HuppertN°54 Marie-Noëlle KauffmannN°56 Marcel HanounN°60 Stéphane MonclaireN°61 Howard GuttenplanN°65 Jean DouchetN°66 Joseph LoseyN°76 Yvonne RainerN°95 Manoel de OliveiraN°102 Ulrike OttingerN°104 Derek JarmanN°105 Jean-Luc GodardN°106 Conny SchenkN°107 Jackie RaynalN°110 / N°2929 Paul SharitsN°120 Stephen DwoskinN°121 Robert KramerN°122 Jean-Michel BouhoursN°145 Christian LebratN°150 Serge MerlinN°158 Roland LethemN°161 Marie RivièreN°172 / N°173 Imre GyöngyössyN°174 Doreen CantoN°179 Kristin KirkconnelN°180 RosetteN°192 Philippe GarrelN°193 Wim WendersN°212 Noël GodinN°214 Maurice PialatN°236 Sandrine BonnaireN°238 / N°1742 Alf BoldN°246 Brigitte SyN°250 JakoboisN°251 Werner NekesN°261 Helmut HerbstN°262 Galaxie BarbouthN°264 / N°306 / N°447 / N°698 / N°895 László SzabóN°282 Peter KubelkaN°295 Philippe SollersN°314 Frédéric PardoN°318 Lucia FioravantiN°321 / N°368 Yann BeauvaisN°322 Philipe BordierN°340 / N°421 Jean-Marie StraubN°342 Danièle HuilletN°343 Julie DelpyN°376 Gabriel MatzneffN°393 / N°2507 James BroughtonN°409 Juliet BertoN°441 Fernando ArrabalN°442 Jacques MonoryN°458 Pascal MartinN°485 Mireille PerrierN°505 / N°893 Béatrice RomandN°527 / N°764 / N°2215 Michel MardoreN°564 Volker SchlöndorffN°572 Margarethe von TrottaN°576 Patrick Poivre d'ArvorN°600 / N°621

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