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The Long Film Is Back, and the Short One Should Be Worried

Across the last three years, the three-hour-plus film has quietly returned to the centre of serious American cinema. An essay on what the long film does that the short film cannot.

Lena Ashworth·2 Feb·6 min

A stopwatch face showing 90 minutes, rendered in bold red on ink-black.

Essays

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