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LOST IN THE SHUFFLE

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

An hour today because we lost some time with window washing this morning (not me, the guys who come a few times a year to do all the glass) and another hour tomorrow. Then I have only one disc to go. The final chapter and the epilogue.

But I am going to have to wait to see it.

I screwed up the shipments and 'lost' the 6th disc in my queue.

I will look on the positive side.

I will be seeing it as the public originally saw it as a television blockbuster.

He made it as one large film.

Then they just cut it up into unequally timed parts and showed them on television.

Then the film was restored as continuous again.

When Criterion restored the film they put it back into the television episodes.

So that is what I am watching.

In the meantime, I will be watching 5 or 6 other films to get a break and then back to the longest film ever made.

It took a year to make it.

Not as long as, say, Apocalypse Now which took a year for just the editing.

But it is a long time.

And it is taking a long time to see it. And a very rewarding time it is too.

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