Movies
February, 1978
Way back when the silent two-reelers were being nudged into history by what we now call feature-length films, the perennial question as to how long a movie could or should be was answered definitively by pioneer producer Carl Laemmle with another query: "How long is it good?" There's the rub that underlies any discussion of Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial 1900, finally released in a four-hour version because U.S. distributors were scared stiff by an unwieldy epic that ran well over...
