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Sure, its great to turn off your mind and immerse yourself ina three-hour-longorgy of cinematic excess.
Youre a busy person, and these (relatively) brief films are worth your limited time.
The below movies are listed by length, starting with the shortest.
Frankenstein
Year:1931Run Time:70 minutesDirector:James Whale
Its alive!
Mourning has never been so cringeworthy.
It also manages to be better?
Come for adventure, danger, monogamous penguin love, and those super-cute chicks.
Hitchcockdidnt think the experiment worked out, but hey, it was worth a shot.
Thankfully, what director Gus Van Sant gives us is poetic and provocative.
Then again, perhaps doom isnt all that certain in the next life.
Next time you cant decide between a stand-up special and movie,split the difference with this.
If you were ever bored by math in high school, let Aronofsky reinvigorate your taste for numbers.
And its less than half as long asThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
but thats part of why its so low-fi effective.
Frances Ha
Year:2012Run Time:86 minutesDirector:Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach is the king of brevity.
So, too, does this wonderfulHayao Miyazakifilm deliver pure pleasure with a feathers brief, soft touch.
The quick and nasty first installment of theParanormal Activityfranchiseset the template with a scary-short run time.
Since the movies about time travel, its fitting that it doesnt waste yours.
The movie has since inspired ahilarious television version.
Watch it in appropriately silent wonder.
The result is 88 minutes of pure adrenaline.
(Is there any other kind?)
A Netflix staple, this low-key rom-com comesheavilyrecommended.
The subsequent six decades have seen his trick ripped off by everybody else.
Woodward still ends up in the same place Cage does but 14 minutes faster.
Eraserhead
Year:1977Run Time:89 minutesDirector:David Lynch
In heaven,everything is fine.
Its the only version ofHamletthats less than three hours.
We could make a fucking suitcase out of you.)
If only puberty could be handled this quickly in real life.
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