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Cinématon

1978·Documentary·208h
7.1
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.
Directed by Gérard Courant

Cast

Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
N°0 / N°1000 / N°1001 / N°2000 / N°3000
Rose Lowder
Rose Lowder
N°6
Bernard Roué
Bernard Roué
N°7
Dominique Noguez
Dominique Noguez
N°8 / N°71 / N°319
Katerina Thomadaki
Katerina Thomadaki
N°9
Teo Hernández
Teo Hernández
N°16 / N°481
Joseph Morder
Joseph Morder
N°21 / N°74 / N°323 / N°1968 / N°2119
Martine Rousset
Martine Rousset
N°22
Michel Nedjar
Michel Nedjar
N°27
Babette Mangolte
Babette Mangolte
N°31
Raymonde Carasco
Raymonde Carasco
N°32
Stéphane Marti
Stéphane Marti
N°33

Crew

Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
Director
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
Producer
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
Idea
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
Camera Operator
Gérard Courant
Gérard Courant
Cinematography

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Sepia Gore
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Cinématon
For roughly 4 months I've been occasionally going through all that's available of Cinematon through this YouTube Playlist and finally I've been able to complete it. Obviously it's not all of it but it's still a lot of it so I'll take it, it's a pretty charming and fasincating if at times a bit tedious exercise in capturing a presense, aura and personality of an individual through stillness and silence that works extremely well when we have interesting lively subjects such as Terry Gilliam, (my favourite) Juliet Berto, Godard, Julie Delpy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wim Wenders etc but when we have to spend time with more mundane or even quite boring unknown people it really leaves you a bit frustrated especially with how long these can be and feel although that's not to say there weren't any interesting normal faces in the mix like a random baby which apparently was Courant's favorite subject in the whole pile. If you don't want to watch all 156 hours of it or what there is of that length I recommend you just watch ones with the actors or directors you recognise or even liked because beside from them there just wasn't much there to really justify such a length especially for normal audiences although I do have to say watching it sperately in parts does help making digesting this thing a bit more bearable and enjoyable but it is still quite rough to get through at times.
For roughly 4 months I've been occasionally going through all that's available of Cinematon through this YouTube Playlist and finally I've been able to complete it. Obviously it's not all of it but it's still a lot of it so I'll take it, it's a pretty charming and fasincating if at times a bit tedious exercise in capturing a presense, aura and personality of an individual through stillness and silence that works extremely well when we have interesting lively subjects such as Terry Gilliam, (my favourite) Juliet Berto, Godard, Julie Delpy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wim Wenders etc but when we have to spend time with more mundane or even quite boring unknown people it really leaves you a bit frustrated especially with how long these can be and feel although that's not to say there weren't any interesting normal faces in the mix like a random baby which apparently was Courant's favorite subject in the whole pile. If you don't want to watch all 156 hours of it or what there is of that length I recommend you just watch ones with the actors or directors you recognise or even liked because beside from them there just wasn't much there to really justify such a length especially for normal audiences although I do have to say watching it sperately in parts does help making digesting this thing a bit more bearable and enjoyable but it is still quite rough to get through at times.
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Sepia Gore
Sepia GorePRO
Cinématon
For roughly 4 months I've been occasionally going through all that's available of Cinematon through this YouTube Playlist and finally I've been able to complete it. Obviously it's not all of it but it's still a lot of it so I'll take it, it's a pretty charming and fasincating if at times a bit tedious exercise in capturing a presense, aura and personality of an individual through stillness and silence that works extremely well when we have interesting lively subjects such as Terry Gilliam, (my favourite) Juliet Berto, Godard, Julie Delpy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wim Wenders etc but when we have to spend time with more mundane or even quite boring unknown people it really leaves you a bit frustrated especially with how long these can be and feel although that's not to say there weren't any interesting normal faces in the mix like a random baby which apparently was Courant's favorite subject in the whole pile. If you don't want to watch all 156 hours of it or what there is of that length I recommend you just watch ones with the actors or directors you recognise or even liked because beside from them there just wasn't much there to really justify such a length especially for normal audiences although I do have to say watching it sperately in parts does help making digesting this thing a bit more bearable and enjoyable but it is still quite rough to get through at times.
For roughly 4 months I've been occasionally going through all that's available of Cinematon through this YouTube Playlist and finally I've been able to complete it. Obviously it's not all of it but it's still a lot of it so I'll take it, it's a pretty charming and fasincating if at times a bit tedious exercise in capturing a presense, aura and personality of an individual through stillness and silence that works extremely well when we have interesting lively subjects such as Terry Gilliam, (my favourite) Juliet Berto, Godard, Julie Delpy, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wim Wenders etc but when we have to spend time with more mundane or even quite boring unknown people it really leaves you a bit frustrated especially with how long these can be and feel although that's not to say there weren't any interesting normal faces in the mix like a random baby which apparently was Courant's favorite subject in the whole pile. If you don't want to watch all 156 hours of it or what there is of that length I recommend you just watch ones with the actors or directors you recognise or even liked because beside from them there just wasn't much there to really justify such a length especially for normal audiences although I do have to say watching it sperately in parts does help making digesting this thing a bit more bearable and enjoyable but it is still quite rough to get through at times.
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