http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346336/

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana's passionate epic THE BEST OF YOUTH follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams.

The Best of Youth is a very unusal movie in that it is a little over six hours long. It is shown in two parts, so you can watch it over the course of two days if you're not hardcore enough. People say it doesn't feel that long, but I haven't seen it yet. I'll give my personal take on Thursday after I've had time to watch it.

It's got a 94% on RottenTomatoes, 90% on Metacritic, and an 8.7/10 on IMDB. It's supposed to be incredible. Word.

We'll be playing it at Galaxy Cinema from August 12th to August 18th, and it probably won't play anywhere else in the area. There's only two copies of the film, as I understand it, so each theater can only play it for one week.

Part 1 will be playing Friday-Sunday at 4:15 and 9:30, Monday-Thursday just at 4:15. Part 2 is playing all week at 7:30. So, if you're down for the hardcore run it's gonna be from about 4:15-10:36.

ROCK!

8/6/2005 7:47:38 PM

so.. do i have to pay twice for one movie? >.<

8/6/2005 8:04:40 PM

Yeah, but, I mean, it's four times the length of your average movie. If you're a student, it'd be $11.

8/6/2005 8:20:49 PM

Oh hell yes.

8/7/2005 12:32:48 AM

Hell yes indeed.

8/7/2005 2:08:23 PM

I'm down for the six hours

8/7/2005 3:48:57 PM

if i could convince my friends to go, but alas

8/7/2005 5:00:06 PM

Who needs friends when you've got movies?

That's what it'll say on my tombstone.


If anybody remembers to get me one.

8/7/2005 5:38:25 PM

Just ask yourself.

Are you a bad enough dude to watch six hours of perfection?

8/11/2005 12:24:53 PM

spookyjon is watching this as we speak. I started the first half at about 11pm and he has about 2.5 hours left, assuming he took no break before starting the second half... that's 5AM ya'll...

I'd say he's badass.

I'm not, I went home to post on TWW.

8/12/2005 2:28:39 AM

We just finished.


We are awesome.

8/12/2005 5:44:37 AM

I AM OH SO TIRED.

8/12/2005 5:53:29 PM

bling

8/12/2005 6:08:53 PM

the movie had some great moments

ah-nat-toh-mi-ah...

I need to get a copy of that song

8/13/2005 2:41:29 AM

ehe

AAAAAAAAAAANATOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAA

I wanna rock that shit all day long.

8/13/2005 6:32:19 PM

Quote :

"AAAAAAAAAAANATOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAA"

wow, that totally ownz me

8/14/2005 2:12:51 AM

I know most people won't have time to see this now that the weekend's over, but if you have the chance you really should.

8/15/2005 3:47:26 PM