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The Brutalist: In Defence of the 3.5-Hour Epic

A year after The Brutalist swept its technical categories and divided audiences, its length has stopped looking like a gamble and started looking like the point. An argument for the long film in a short-film decade.

Lena Ashworth·11 Mar·6 min

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Essays

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