What is the longest film you have ever watched in it's entirety in one sitting?

The Stand by Stephen King. I think it's about six hours long in length.

Nothing to compare with 6 hours. 'Reds' and 'Gandhi' are ones that come to mind but they were probably only about 3 hours.

Still ... 3 plus hours is nothing to sneeze at.
Reds: Runtime: 194 min
Gandhi: Runtime: 191 min

Shoah.

Many hours, eight? We left before the end because of our pal's needs. I think it ran nine hours.

Major film.

She says, drily.

8 and a third hours is the short version of the Holocaust doc! Egads!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090015/combined

I don't now remember for sure if that watching was over one or two days, but I think one, with intermissions. I'm almost sure it was nine hours at a time. This was at the Pavilion in west LA.

That was with our friend Harvey Goldstein. He was a prof at USC and had at one point a PBS or such type show called Ceremonies of Innocence.
I can cry to think of the three of us watching this, but the information wasn't new to him. Or even to us, though some was.
His life had to do with making sense in despair.

He's also the guy who taught myself and ex about food, maybe even food as distraction, or as organization.

DER RING DES NEIBELUNGEN

The entire Wagner's Ring cycle in one sitting?
How many hours does that approximately clock at?

13, BUT WE WERE STEINED

I give up, I've never watched that or will.
Not sure why - just that what I've seen seen and heard is shrill.

IT WAS A GERMAN COURSE REQUIREMENT IN UNDERGRAD. A BUNCH OF US RENTED THE BEYROID VIDEO TAPES AND PLAYED IT ONE WEEKEND AT THE COLLEGE RADIO/TV STATION.

I THINK IT TOOK MOST OF A SATURDAY, IM THINKING THAT IT WAS ABOUT12 TO 14 HOURS TOTAL WITH SEVERAL PIZZAS AND OTHER BRREAKS.

ALL OF US ACED THE FINAL THOUGH. (WE FOUND A COPY OF THE LIBRETTO). I DID A CARTOON OF FOFNER AND INCLUDED IT ON MY TEST "BLUE BOOK".
LIFE WAS SIMPLER THEN.

your high beams are on, dude...

Ok.

My local pbs station ran the original (1967) BBC miniseries The Forsyte Saga some time in the 1970's.
http://www.ceejbot.com/EricPorter/Forsyte/

They later ran all 26 episodes back to back in the first marathon of that type that I can recall seeing on TV. I sat through all 26 hours at one stretch--bleary-eyed but enthralled.

Never saw an extremely long movie in a theater, but one night I went to see three great movies in a row, at three different theaters, in a movie binge.

osso, I saw Shoah over 4 nights on pbs.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/27/movies/on-pbs-shoah-a-9-1-2-hour-film-on-holocaust.html
I don't think I could have watched that one all in one sitting.

Sitting through Wagner's entire Ring Cycle in one viewing would probably be torture for me, farmerman, even with pizza. I need to take my Wagner in smaller doses.

Don't leave me hanging damnit! What three movies did you see?

I'm 99 percent sure we just watched the film straight. (I'll ask my ex, one of these days).

Well, you asked, Tsar.

Back to more routine long films.

I just heard about a new movie on Carlos the Jackal, http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/10/15/carlos-life-terrorist-55-hours
It's 5.5 hours long and apparently it's riveting, I would love to see it.

Yes. Yes I did. I hesitated seeing Carlos this afternoon because of the length. In fact, I kind of planned on not going today when I then chose to eat lunch at an Indian restaurant slightly after 11:30 and the film was scheduled for 12:30. I walked to the theater after work and couldn't decide where to eat lunch and/or see a film.

The lunch special was 50% everything on the menu:
Navrattan Curry
Assorted vegetables in a cream sauce with nuts & fruit.

By the time I got out of the restaurant, it was 12:25. Quickly walked to the theater 2 blocks away and I decided to take a chance and watch the film.

The free popcorn with the ticket helped me to decide to buy the ticket. That and the promised intermission half way through the film.