Eyebrow Cinema | Long Movies are Good, Actually @EyebrowCinema | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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All my life I've heard people complain about movies being "too long". On podcasts, in reviews, on social media, even in casual conversations. Well, today I finally make my retort. This video is in defense of a three-plus hour movie and looks at how a girthy runtime can be a wonderful, rich opportunity for filmmakers to expand the world and characters of their movies. Special attention is given to Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander; and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/danpgsimpson
Filmography: https://boxd.it/cXM2w
Works Cited:
A Time of Honor: Seven Samurai and Sixteenth-Century Japan. Philip Kemp. 2010. criterion.com/current/posts/443-a-time-of-honor-seven-samurai-and-sixteenth-century-japan
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Stephen Prince. 1991.
Music Featured:
Setup With an E by Small Colin
Carnival by smallertide
Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music
Serial Killer by John Bartmann
Facing It by Komiku
Both Flanks by Small Colin
Janie's Theme by Sacred Ape
More Eyebrow Cinema:
Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU
The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4
The Decay of Cinema - youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M
Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist - youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE
Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM
Star Wars Can't Move On - youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM
How Terence Young Made James Bond - youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Never Say Never Again is a Waste - youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA
Harry Potter - 10 Years Later - youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw
Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/eyebrowcinema08211
Support me on Patreon! Benefits include early access, exclusive vlogs, and more: patreon.com/eyebrowcinema
All my life I've heard people complain about movies being "too long". On podcasts, in reviews, on social media, even in casual conversations. Well, today I finally make my retort. This video is in defense of a three-plus hour movie and looks at how a girthy runtime can be a wonderful, rich opportunity for filmmakers to expand the world and characters of their movies. Special attention is given to Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander; and Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/danpgsimpson
Filmography: https://boxd.it/cXM2w
Works Cited:
A Time of Honor: Seven Samurai and Sixteenth-Century Japan. Philip Kemp. 2010. criterion.com/current/posts/443-a-time-of-honor-seven-samurai-and-sixteenth-century-japan
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa. Stephen Prince. 1991.
Music Featured:
Setup With an E by Small Colin
Carnival by smallertide
Love Him by Loyalty Freak Music
Serial Killer by John Bartmann
Facing It by Komiku
Both Flanks by Small Colin
Janie's Theme by Sacred Ape
More Eyebrow Cinema:
Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 - youtu.be/sI3Obe0tiDU
The Plot Holes of Vertigo (and why they don't matter) - youtu.be/xP9EDhntal4
The Decay of Cinema - youtu.be/hjDNtwh2i5M
Chris Benoit and Separating the Art from the Artist - youtu.be/dGavvwRyomE
Sleepless in Seattle - Crying at Action Movies - youtu.be/UZLyIdVeLaM
Star Wars Can't Move On - youtu.be/ESWgz-lcUuE
Contextualizing Insomnia - Nolan's Secret Gem - youtu.be/IUef5zrtRQ4
Movie Theaters and the Value of Inconvenience - youtu.be/uZdl9D7NWBI
Action and Pacifism in Castle in the Sky - youtu.be/fuIhAH8mnSM
How Terence Young Made James Bond - youtu.be/2sTt_nkgGFE
Hierarchies of Violence in The Shining - youtu.be/tMw2YWOBeoM
The Curious Case of Forrest and Benjamin - youtu.be/gWAg1suGwnM
Never Say Never Again is a Waste - youtu.be/GsdMCujvmMA
Harry Potter - 10 Years Later - youtu.be/H0VjWs6aivw
Stanley Kubrick's Favourite Actors - youtu.be/Uon8unTCEX4
