Cinématon(Movie, 1978)

Name: Cinématon
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1978
Duration: T208:0:00
Rating: 2.2

Rating: 2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Cinématon is a 207-hour-long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 30 years from 1978 until 2009, it consists of a series of over 3,111 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, ()

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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.

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Trailer for Cinématon + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Jean-Luc Godard (1981) by Gérard Courant - Cinématon #106(Clip, 3:59)

Jean-Luc Godard (1981) by Gérard Courant - Cinématon #106 (Clip) | Bande-annonce "Cinématon" (2014) de Gérard Courant (Trailer, FR)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.gerardcourant.com

Production country: France

Made by: K.O.C.K. Production, Les Amis de Cinématon

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: No Language (XX)

Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), French (FR), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/28/2010 (World premiere: 12/20/1978)

Cast: Nagisa Ōshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller, Terry Gilliam, Joël Lautier, Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy, Yulian Semyonov, Togrul Narimanbekov, Sergei Parajanov, Inna Churikova, Kirill Razlogov, Barbet Schroeder, Horst Tappert, Manoel de Oliveira, Isild Le Besco, Mai Zetterling, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maruschka Detmers, Imanol Arias, Philippe Garrel, Tina Aumont, Patricia Millardet, Danièle Huillet, Richard Bohringer, Jean Dréville, Raúl Ruiz, Joaquim de Almeida, Jean-François Stévenin, Derek Jarman, Jean-Marie Straub, Frédéric Mitterrand, Jackie Berroyer, Catherine Frot, Lou Castel, John Berry, Alain Chabat, André Téchiné, Marie Rivière, Françoise Michaud, Pascal Bonitzer, Merzak Allouache, Gérard Jugnot, Danièle Dubroux, Chantal Lauby, Alain Tanner, Fernando Arrabal, Blanca Li, Jan Bucquoy, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Jan Kounen, Jean Rouch, Véronique Genest, Zouzou, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Zabou Breitman, Maurice Pialat, Joseph Losey, Carlos Diegues, Nicolas Boukhrief, Pierre Carles, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Mrinal Sen, Isabel Otero, Béatrice Romand, Isabelle Collin Dufresne, Évelyne Bouix, Salim Kechiouche, Claude Jutra, Mireille Perrier, Paul Blain, Jacques Maillot, Hélène Lapiower, Bertrand Van Effenterre, Henri Alekan, Hugues Quester, Sergio Citti, Bernard Queysanne, Alain Riou, Gaspar Noé, Daniel Pommereulle, Christian Aaron Boulogne, Henry Chapier, Karl Zéro, Hervé-Pierre Gustave

Director: Gérard Courant

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Jean-Luc Godard (1981) by Gérard Courant - Cinématon #106(Clip, 3:59)

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