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The Ninety-Minute Movie Is the Craft Format and Everyone Forgot

A case for the 90-minute movie in the age of 160-minute movies. Most short films are tighter, meaner, and more controlled than most long ones, and the industry has forgotten to value this.

Marcus Vell·26 Aug·7 min

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Hundreds of Beavers: The Silent-Era Revival Nobody Expected

Mike Cheslik's 108-minute silent slapstick about a 19th-century fur trapper fighting mascot beavers is one of the strangest American indie films of the decade. It is also one of the funniest.

Marcus Vell·8 Jul·4 min