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Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2026
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thumbnail of The Brutalist (4 hrs long) okay perhaps not the best example
Right? They should be making them watch the entire Lord of the Rings extended trilogy instead.
That may be true but the example in the article, Jules et Jim, is under 2 hours long.
I'm not a film student but I assume that long, comparatively difficult films by Tarkovsky, Ozu, etc are a lot of what the film students are watching and I would imagine that the professors are commentating on more recent developments
Tarkovsky films are incredible but are a "watch once in your lifetime" sort of deal.
I asked my grandmother if she had seen STALKER and she said yes, when it came out in theaters, like 40 years ago (in the USSR), and I asked if she was interested in re-watching it with her grandkids
She said: "No. It's a very difficult film. A very difficult film. You watch it only once because you don't get the same feeling a second time"
I watched it like thrice and it only got better and more fascinating on every rewatch.
And not exactly 4 hours of easy watching.