Martin Scorsese's new film Killer of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, is running at three hours 20 minutes.
The Cannes festival officials are asking, no doubt cautiously and respectfully, if it could be trimmed before the May festival.
During the past 20 years, a considerable number of films have hovered around the three-hour mark. It's a striking shift from the previous 70 years, when a film of even two hours was considered too long for its content.
Silent films were generally under (1915) and (1917) were both over three hours. Neither film started a trend. Griffith's career petered out through the 1920s and ended with his inability to handle dialogue scenes in the sound era.
