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Cinématon (1978)
Directed by Gérard Courant
Overview
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.
Length 12480 minutes
Actors
Gérard Courant | Alain-Alcide Sudre | Rose Lowder | Bernard Roué | Dominique Noguez | Katerina Thomadaki | Martine Elzingre | Teo Hernández | Gaël Badaud | Joseph Morder | Martine Rousset | Michel Nedjar | Babette Mangolte | Raymonde Carasco | Stéphane Marti | Boris Lehman | Raphaël Bassan | Michael Snow | Lionel Soukaz | F.J. Ossang | Gina Lola Benzina | Erwin Huppert | Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann | Marcel Hanoun | Stéphane Monclain | Howard Guttenplan | Jean Douchet | Joseph Losey | Yvonne Rainer | Manoel de Oliveira | Ulrike Ottinger | Derek Jarman | Jean-Luc Godard | Conny Schenk | Jackie Raynal | Paul Sharits | Stephen Dwoskin | Robert Kramer | Jean-Michel Bouhours | Christian Lebrat | Serge Merlin | Roland Lethem | Marie Rivière | Imre Gyöngyössy | Doreen Canto | Kristin Kirkconnel | Rosette | Philippe Garrel | Wim Wenders | Noël Godin | Maurice Pialat | Sandrine Bonnaire | Alf Bold | Brigitte Sy | Jakobois | Werner Nekes | Helmut Herbst | Galaxie Barbouth | László Szabó | Peter Kubelka | Philippe Sollers | Frédéric Pardo | Lucia Fioravanti | Yann Beauvais | Philipe Bordier | Jean-Marie Straub | Danièle Huillet | Julie Delpy | Gabriel Matzneff | James Broughton | Juliet Berto | Fernando Arrabal | Jacques Monory | Pascal Martin | Mireille Perrier | Béatrice Romand | Michel Mardore | Volker Schlöndorff | Margarethe von Trotta | Patrick Poivre d'Arvor | Terry Gilliam | Samuel Fuller | Jessica Forde | Barbet Schroeder | Yasmine Haury | Gabrielle Lazure | Charlotte Véry | Yoshishige Yoshida | Mariola Saint Martin | Nicoletta Braschi | Roberto Benigni | Véronique Delbourg | Nagisa Ōshima | Harun Farocki | Sergei Parajanov | Ultra Violet | Mike Kuchar | Jean Rouch | Brigitte Lahaie | Tonino De Bernardi | Jonas Mekas | Jean-Jacques Lebel | Anzhelika Nevolina | Gaspar Noé | Patrick Deval | Zouzou | Frédérique Devaux | Daniel Pommereulle | Serge Bard | Jacques Robiolles | Mauricio Hernandez | Leïla Colin-Navaï | Jaap Pieters | Robert Cahen | Benjamin Léon