10 great films with very, very long run times

Brace yourselves — another very long, must-see movie has landed. Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, which tells the story of the fictional Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor Laszlo Toth, has a running time of 215 minutes. Yes, the Oscar favourite is three and a half hours long and comes with an intermission.

Too much? The film’s director doesn’t think so. “I think it’s quite silly, actually, to have a conversation about runtime,” Corbet said at the Venice Film Festival last year. “Because that’s like criticising a book for being 700 pages instead of 100 pages.”

• Adrien Brody on The Brutalist, his Oscar-tipped new epic

In fairness, some of cinema’s finest (and most award-winning) films boast long running times. Here we select ten of the

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