Those television adventures belied the motion picture business orthodoxy that a movie should be just two hours and a bit - because that’s what people are used to. I had to admit that the productions that had most impressed me in recent years were Peter Morgan’s “The Crown” (20 hours), Ezra Edelman’s “O.J.: Made in America” (8 hours) and “The Vietnam War” (16 1/2 hours) by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Others nodded in agreement, and I realized how many of us are now addicted to marathon viewings. “Bingeing!” she cried, as if that was the richest experience in life. I suggested showing it over four days, five hours at a time.īut I thought to myself: Would people really sit for that? Then someone else leaped at the plan. We wondered: If the Festival had elected to show all of “The Crown” (so far) in a movie theater - all 20 hours - would an audience come? “How would you do that?” someone asked. On that scale, you could feel the drip of anointing oil in the coronation scene and see fleeting thoughts behind Claire Foy’s eyes that had been vague at home. Afterward, several people said that while they enjoyed “ The Crown” at home on their TVs, there was an extra thrill in watching these clips on the big movie screen at SFMOMA. At the San Francisco Film Festival earlier this year, I gave a talk about the Netflix series “The Crown” and showed 15 minutes of clips.
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