Playing now in the FLC Virtual Cinema, Béla Tarr’s newly restored Sátántangó is an epic masterwork, its generous seven hour and nineteen minute runtime making it ideal for long viewings during quarantine times. It reminds us of one silver lining to staying indoors during the coronavirus pandemic: the unique opportunity it gives us to finally dive into the longer epic movies that have long sat on our to-watch lists. We asked the FLC community on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to tell us which epics were on their quarantine watch list, and their responses continued to impress. Featuring epics recently shown at Film at Lincoln Center including War and Peace, Stalker, The Leopard, An Elephant Sitting Still, The Irishman, Andrei Rublev, Barry Lyndon, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Dead Souls, La Flor, and many others, it’s the perfect list for those of us still deciding what to watch this weekend. Thanks to everyone who submitted!
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Malcolm X pic.twitter.com/qAtZxhzBZs
— Diane Ladd’s Oscar Category of Best Supporting (@dinasztie13) April 23, 2020
Last week I watched the Apu trilogy for the first time.
Their universality and sense of inexorability – time and tide and all that – spoke to me in this moment when so many people are living through difficult circumstances and trying to roll with it.— Andrew Westrope (@andrew_westrope) April 23, 2020
Ordet
— Lorenzo Ciorcalo (@rotovisor) April 23, 2020
Profound Desire of the Gods
Tokyo Story
Women in the Dunes
The Sacrifice— trevor (@TrevorRR666) April 24, 2020
Notes from Underground (1995). It’s been too long https://t.co/1G21FIXVnq
— sen (@szngaard) April 23, 2020
I’ve got Malcolm X and Fitzcarraldo in my queue… https://t.co/sqdbRbCZr2
— Alex Billington (@firstshowing) April 23, 2020
Finally watching the Three Colors trilogy. https://t.co/wQ4fb2y1Ib pic.twitter.com/iUFtzWwrWo
— max cornillon (@MaxCorn) April 23, 2020
in a few weeks when my final papers are done, i’m absolutely gonna watch Sergei Bondarchuk’s 422-minute epic WAR AND PEACE (1966) https://t.co/O1NzHQC3xd pic.twitter.com/2MD1YwTJkf
— chris wei (he/him) (@therealchriswei) April 23, 2020
Any Wiseman documentary. https://t.co/toQpx4mM4V
— The Curb (@TheCurbAU) April 23, 2020
Not a single film, but @Criterion‘s Ingmar Bergman box set. https://t.co/acloloyXUv
— Jordan Raup (@jpraup) April 23, 2020
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