Great Films 90 Minutes or Under

[Don Draper]

Fandango is an absolute gem! I never get tired of watching it. It goes by so fast and smooth at 1:30:40.

No time wasted. No scene frivolity. Impeccable editing.

Let the TERB brotherhood (and sisterhood) add to this list, please....

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[explorerzip]

The Cat Came Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJl_4IsQJ2g&t=48s

The Snowman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3THighARU

Pretty much every single Pixar short. The best one so far is Bao featured before The Incredibles 2 that won the Oscar this year and stars the great city of Toronto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lbbWcdZro

 

[Big Rig]

I think you mean films that seem like 30 minutes?

Such a film starts with conflict (or tension which is the same thing) then continues to build to even greater conflict. This can be done cheaply as in action movies or done with artistry. The same technique is used in book writing. Without such conflict, you would quickly stop reading.

A great film that starts this way and continues is Django Unchained. The action is not thrown in your face but you can feel it building and you wonder how it will end. Quentin Tarantino is a master of this technique. He not only directs but also is involved in the script


He wrote True Romance but then left to direct Pulp Fiction leaving True Romance direction to someone else

Conflict turns into action than some more of even greater tension then a dénouement.

The Unforgiven is another great film using this age-old technique

This technique is as old as storytelling

 

[Don Draper]

I think you mean films that seem like 30 minutes?

No, my esteemed colleague. I don't mean 'seem'.

I meant actual running time of the film.

Efficient. Captivating. Flowing.

A true masterpiece at 88 minutes:

 

[explorerzip]

No, my esteemed colleague. I don't mean 'seem'.

I meant actual running time of the film.

Efficient. Captivating. Flowing.

A true masterpiece at 88 minutes:

You made a typo in the title of your thread (Great Films Under 30 Minutes), which is why I listed shorts...

 

[Don Draper]

You made a typo in the title of your thread (Great Films Under 30 Minutes), which is why I listed shorts...

You're correct my esteemed colleague.

I meant 90 minutes.

 

[Big Rig]

You're correct my esteemed colleague.

I meant 90 minutes.

Got it, my esteemed colleague. Great idea Don. Totally love creative stuff that is short so do not sell short the short films


Moon Unit Zappa (franks daughter) has done some nice stuff. "Ugly" is beautifully poignant and at about 20 minutes it makes some hard statements about ugly peoples plight in a beautiful people only driven society and throws social attitudes in your face that will change your attitudes if you have a heart


TIFF on king street west is the place to go to study great films and short ones as well as foreign films. I saw the lead character from Space Odyssey 2001, Keir Dullea, give a talk on this amazing movie that critics panned for its lack of 'ACTION' . They were fools. While Kubrick got some stuff wrong about the future, it is still a great existentialism film that changed how we think of films. The symbolism in this film can be diccussed for hours by the worthy and the music backdrop is sheer beauty. The lack of dialogue is what threw critics off , IMHO, and is part of what makes this a truely great film


While I think a move is a bad choice for a first date because you should be talking about each other, TIFF is Toronto gem so consider it for a great night out on your first date, if it fails as a first date then she was not meant for me.

 

[TeeJay]

Fandango is an absolute gem! I never get tired of watching it. It goes by so fast and smooth at 1:30:40

The irony of asking for films 90 minutes or less when you share a film that actually goes over 90 minutes

 

[boomboom]

The irony of asking for films 90 minutes or less when you share a film that actually goes over 90 minutes

if you must get legal on us, from a legal tendering point, he is correct as the clock did not hit 1:31..... 1:30:59 is still acceptable to fall within 1:30

 

[Don Draper]

if you must get legal on us, from a legal tendering point, he is correct as the clock did not hit 1:31..... 1:30:59 is still acceptable to fall within 1:30

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[Insidious Von]

Franka Potente was excellent in Taboo.

 

[Insidious Von]

 

[Insidious Von]

George Miller is being sued by Warner Bros for not delivering Mad Max: The Wasteland, it's over a year overdue.

 

[Don Draper]

Alfred Hitchcock's classic "Rope"...

...80 minutes. Yes. 80!!!!​

 

[Don Draper]

89 minutes

If you have no response to this...

...you have no reflection in your mirror.​

 

[Don Draper]

90 minutes of introspection well spent