Martin Scorsese’s latest film will join a slew of three-hour slogs. These directors, mostly male, need to rein themselves in
et’s be honest about this. No film needs to be longer than three hours. And fewer than you might think can justify breaking the 2hrs 40m mark. News that Martin Scorsese’s latest film,, is clocking in at well over three hours is only the latest in what seems to be a trend in mainstream cinema towards the butt-numbing end of the running time spectrum. If any director knows what to do with every last frame of a rumoured 3hrs 20m, it is Scorsese.
There’s a tacit assumption that a hefty running time automatically conveys event movie status or that anything over three hours is a Big, Important Artistic Statement worthy of note. In the last year, Damien Chazelle’swas 3hrs 12 damp minutes; Andrew Dominik’s polarising Marilyn Monroe biopicwas just shy of the three-hour mark at 2hrs 47m. And the original cut of Alejandro González Iñárritu’shit 2hrs 54m, before Iñárritu re-edited, shaving off 20 or so minutes.
The date-night staple of dinner and a movie is rather skewered when the films are three-hour whoppers
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