10 Great, Super-Long Movies to Stream Since You’ve Got the

If you’re not preventing the great battle on the entrance traces at hospitals, grocery shops or different important public companies because the coronavirus pandemic makes its approach the world over, likelihood is you’re going to be dwelling for some time. And whether or not you’re self-quaranting, social distancing or in any other case turning into one along with your sofa, you would possibly take a look at this as a chance to deal with some epic-length films that may in any other case have appeared daunting. Let us suggest some nice ones.

(Note: With works this lengthy, the ideas of “movie” and “miniseries” get fairly muddled: “Berlin Alexanderplatz” was initially a miniseries on German TV however was launched to theaters as a marathon viewing expertise within the United States. Conversely, the Russian “War and Peace” was a mammoth film — it gained 1969’s Best Foreign Film Oscar — that the Criterion Channel now presents in additional simply digestible chapter type. For our functions, every part on this listing is a film, though you’ll be able to actually watch all of them as miniseries of at the least two elements.)

“Berlin Alexanderplatz” / “Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day” / “World on a Wire” (Criterion Channel): Legendary German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 14-part miniseries adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s novel “Berlin Alexanderplatz” induced an arthouse sensation when it hit U.S. theaters in 1983, the place hardy followers — who would have scoffed at discussions concerning the size of “The Irishman” — settled in for hours to look at this visionary portrait of the travails of everyman Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht, “Das Boot”) in 1920s Berlin. Criterion Channel carries a number of of Fassbinder’s made-for-TV epics, together with the trippy sci-fi story “World on a Wire” in addition to the controversial “Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day,” unseen within the United States till 2018. (Running instances: “Alexanderplatz,” 15 hours and two minutes; “Eight Hours,” eight hours and 15 minutes; “World,” three hours and 32 minutes.)

“Fanny and Alexander” / “Scenes from a Marriage” (Criterion Channel): Fassbinder’s modern Ingmar Bergman additionally labored in tv, however fairly than deliver his large miniseries to the U.S. market, he created shorter edits that had been extra amenable to theatrical play. Thanks to the Criterion Collection, we now get to see two of his masterworks in each variations, and in each circumstances, the additional time is completely worthwhile, even in the event you already know and love the trimmer version. “Fanny and Alexander” is probably Bergman’s most luxurious work, a flashback to childhood that’s alternately sweeping and stark. With “Scenes from a Marriage,” his presents as a psychologically astute author and an empathetic director of actors comes into full play, and in the event you’re postpone by the Swedish filmmaker’s extra somber interval items, this saga sees him implementing a lighter contact and dealing in a (then-)modern milieu. (Running instances: “Fanny” miniseries, 5 hours and 12 minutes; “Fanny” theatrical, three hours and eight minutes; “Scenes” miniseries, 4 hours and 57 minutes; “Scenes” theatrical, two hours and 49 minutes)

“Five Came Back” (Netflix): Based on the e-book by Mark Harris, Laurent Bouzerau’s examination of how World War II affected the careers of 5 main Hollywood filmmakers (John Huston, John Ford, Frank Capra, George Stevens and William Wyler) mixes cinema historical past with history-history in an interesting and provocative approach. And to make the movie really feel extra related to non-film-buffs, Bouzerau matches every of his topics with a up to date director (together with Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro) uniquely suited to stroll us via every story. And…