Hollywood Half-Time

Where is the intermission?

The use of film intermissions is a lost practice in present day feature films. For many audience members this can become a frustrating and uncomfortable experience especially during long duration films. The purpose of Hollywood Half-Time is to suggest the best possible intermission period for viewers. Below is a list of long duration films (including extended/ director’s cuts) categorised by decade. Happy film viewing everyone!

2020s

Dune: Part 2 (2024), About Dry Grasses (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Animal (2023), ¡Que viva México! (2023), Napoleon (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Asteroid City (2023), Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning: Part One (2023), Oppenheimer (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), God Is a Bullet (2023), Beau Is Afraid (2023), John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023), Babylon (2022), Avatar: Way of the Water (2022), The Fabelmans (2022), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), TÁR (2022), The Kashmir Files (2022), Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022), Master (2021), Leila’s Brothers (2022), Pacifiction (2022), Blonde (2022), Elvis (2022), RRR: Rise, Roar, Revolt (2022), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), The Batman (2022), K.G.F: Chapter 2 (2022), Drive My Car (2021), The Story of My Wife (2021), Spiderman: No Way Home (2021), West Side Story (2021), House of Gucci (2021), Eternals (2021), Dune: Part 1 (2021), The Last Duel (2021), No Time To Die (2021), Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021), Minnal Murali (2021), Jai Bhim (2021), Leave No Traces (2021), Soorarai Pottru (2020), The Eight Hundred (2020), Out of Dark (2020), Hamilton (2020), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Da 5 Bloods (2020)

2010s

Avengers: Endgame (2019), It: Chapter 2 (2019), The Irishman (2019), A Hidden Life (2019), Le Mans ’66 (2019), Doctor Sleep (2019), Midsommar (2019), A Herdade (2019), The Painted Bird (2019), The Traitor (2019), So Long, My Son (2019), Labyrinth of Cinema (2019), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Dragged Across Concrete (2018), Suspiria (2018), Never Look Away (2018), Manmarziyaan (2018), Our Time (2018), Peterloo (2018), La Flor (2018), An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), The House That Jack Built (2018), The Wild Pear Tree (2018), Blade Runner: 2049 (2017), Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017), Mektoub, My Love (2017), Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi (2017), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Maanagaram (2017), The Square (2017), Silence (2016), The Wailing (2016), American Honey (2016), Toni Erdmann (2016), O.J.: Made in America (2016), The Handmaiden (2016), Sieranevada (2016), Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), The Woman Who Left (2016), Dangal (2016), Wiener-Dog (2016), The Revenant (2015), Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Martian (2015), Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), Drishyam (2015), Straight Outta Compton (2015), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The Search (2014), PK (2014), Boyhood (2014), The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), Interstellar (2014), Winter Sleep (2014), The Great Beauty (2013), Home From Home (2013), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), Prisoners (2013), The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Cloud Atlas (2012), Les Misérables (2012), Holy Motors (2012), Laurence Anyways (2012), What the Day Owes the Night (2012), Barfi! (2012), Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), Beyond the Hills (2012), Lines of Wellington (2012), The Act of Killing (2012), Margaret (2011), The Tree of Life (2011), Once Upon a Time in Antolia (2011), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Robin Hood (2010), Black Venus (2010), My Name Is Khan (2010), The Town (2010)

2000s

Avatar (2009), 3 Idiots (2009), 2012 (2009), Watchmen (2009), Enter the Void (2009), Mr. Nobody (2009), Inglorious Basterds (2009), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Magadheera (2009), Funny People (2009), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest (2009), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), A Prophet (2009), Baaria (2009), The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Australia (2008), Sita Sings the Blues (2008), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Christmas Tale (2008), Sex and the City (2008), Love Exposure (2008), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007), There Will Be Blood (2007), Zodiac (2007), In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007), Like Stars on Earth (2007), 12 (2007), Lust, Caution (2007), American Gangster (2007), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Superman Returns (2006), The Departed (2006), Inland Empire (2006), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), Rang De Basanti (2006), Southland Tales (2006), Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006), Lady Chatterley (2006), Colossal Youth (2006), What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Good Shepherd (2006), Munich (2005), King Kong (2005), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The New World (2005), Walk the Line (2005), Chatrapathi (2005), Veer-Zaara (2004), Alexander (2004), Downfall (2004), Ray (2004), The Aviator (2004), Troy (2004), Life is a Miracle (2004), Cold Mountain (2003), Dogville (2003), The Corporation (2003), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), The Best of Youth (2003), Gods and Generals (2003), LOTR: Return of the King (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), LOTR: The Two Towers (2002), Gangs Of New York (2002), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Windtalkers (2002), LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), Pearl Harbor (2001), Ali (2001), The Majestic (2001), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), Asoka (2001), Who Knows? (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), Amores perros (2000), Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001), Gladiator (2000), Almost Famous (2000), Eureka (2000), Sentimental Destinies (2000), Trolösa (2000), Platform (2000), Yi-Yi (2000), The Patriot (2000)

1990s

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Any Given Sunday (1999), Magnolia (1999), The Insider (1999), Sunshine (1999), Titus (1999), The Green Mile (1999), Joan of Arc (1999), The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), Time Regained (1999), The Grandfather (1998), Armageddon (1998), Meet the Deedles (1998), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Meet Joe Black (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Horse Whisperer (1998), The Thin Red Line (1998), Beloved (1998), Jackie Brown (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Titanic (1997), The Postman (1997), Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (1997), Hamlet (1996), The English Patient (1996), Independence Day (1996), Breaking the Waves (1996), Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle (1996)), Underground (1995), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Ulysses’ Gaze (1995), Waterworld (1995), Amistad (1995), Braveheart (1995), Casino (1995), Heat (1995), Nixon (1995), Wyatt Earp (1994), Queen Margot (1994), Pulp Fiction (1994), Hoop Dreams (1994), Sátántangó (1994), Farewell My Concubine (1993), Louis, enfant roi (1993), Germinal (1993), Gettysburg (1993), Schindler’s List (1993), Short Cuts (1993), Blood In, Blood Out: Bound by Honor (1993), The Firm (1993), Malcolm X (1992), Scent of a Woman (1992), Indochine (1992), Far and Away (1992), The Best Intentions (1992), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), JFK ( 1991), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), Until the End of the World (1991), Ruan Ling Yu (1991), La Belle Noiseuse (1991), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Van Gogh (1991), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Mat (1990), Dances With Wolves (1990), Godfather Part III (1990)

1980s

The Abyss (1989), The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), A City of Sadness (1989), Salaam Bombay! (1988), Time of the Gypsies (1988), On the Silver Globe (1988), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Bird (1988), Camille Claudel (1988), The Big Blue (1988), Cinema Paradiso (1988), The Bengali Night (1988), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Hôtel Terminus (1988), Little Dorrit (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Cry Freedom (1987), Empire of the Sun (1987), The Last Emperor (1987), Sherman’s March (1985), Aliens (1986), Betty Blue (1986), The Color Purple (1985), Out of Africa (1985), 16 Days of Glory (1985), Shoah (1985), Ran (1985), Repentance (1984), Dune (1984), Chain Gang (1984), Carmen (1984), Amadeus (1984), A Passage to India (1984), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Right Stuff (1983), Scarface (1983) Gandhi (1982), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Strange Brew (1983), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Sophie’s Choice (1982), Parasite (1982), Les uns et les autres (1981), Man of Iron (1981), Reds (1981), Ragtime (1981), Das Boot (1981), Prince of the City (1981), Heaven’s Gate (1980), The Big Red One (1980), Kagemusha (1980), Lion of the Desert (1980)

1970s

Apocalypse Now (1979), Tess (1979), Caligula (1979), Stalker (1979), Legend of the Mountain (1979), The Tin Drum (1979), Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979), The Deer Hunter (1978), Superman (1978), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), New York, New York (1977), Soldier of Orange (1977), Man of Marble (1977), A Bridge Too Far (1977), The Other Side of Moonlight (1977), 1900- Novecento (1976), Voyage of the Dammed (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Fellini’s Cassanova (1976), Shout at the Devil (1976), The Message (1976), Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), The Promised Land (1975), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975), The Travelling Players (1975), Deewaar (1975), The Magic Flute (1975), The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Barry Lyndon (1975), Nashville (1975), The Towering Inferno (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Luther (1974), Earthquake (1974), Scenes from a Marriage (1974), The Deluge (1974), Celine and Julie go Boating (1974), O Lucky Man! (1973), Papillon (1973), Tom Sawyer (1973), Lost Horizon (1973), Ludwig (1973), The Mother and the Whore (1973), The Iceman Cometh (1973), The Cowboys (1972), The Ruling Class (1972), Man of La Mancha (1972), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Young Winston (1972), Solaris (1972), 1776 (1972), The Godfather (1972), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Great Waltz (1972), The New Land (1972), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Wild Rovers (1971), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Emigrants (1971), Boy Friend (1971), A Touch of Zen (1971), A Fistful of Dynamite (1971), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Patton (1970), Darling Lili (1970), Scrooge (1970), Tchaikovsky (1970), Song of Norway (1970), Mera Naam Joker (1970), Husbands (1970), Tora Tora Tora (1970), Ryan’s Daughter (1970), The Adventurers (1970), Woodstock (1970)

1960s

Paint Your Wagon (1969), Hello Dolly (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Stewardesses (1969), Sweet Charity (1969), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969), The Red Tent (1969), The Damned (1969), The Battle on the River Neretva (1969), Le chagrin et la pitié (1969), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), Romeo and Juliet (1968), Half a Sixpence (1968), Oliver! (1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Finian’s Rainbow (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Star! (1968), The Lion In Winter (1968), Funny Girl (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Lucia (1968), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Playtime (1967), Marketa Lazarová (1967), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Custer of the West (1967), The Comedians (1967), The Happiest Millionaire (1967), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Camelot (1967), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), Grand Prix (1966), Hawaii (1966), Is Paris Burning? (1966), Pharaoh (1966), Andrei Roublev (1966), The Three Sisters (1966), The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Cinerama’s Russian Adventure (1966), Khartoum (1966), The Sand Pebbles (1966), The Blue Max (1966), The Hallelujah Trail (1965), In Harm’s Way (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Great Race (1965), The Saragossa Manuscript (1965), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Help (1965), Othello (1965), Tokyo Olympiad (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Red Beard (1965), The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), The Sound of Music (1965), My Fair Lady (1964), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Golden Head (1964), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Becket (1964), Cheyenne Autumn (1964), Richard Burton’s Hamlet (1964), Sangam (1964), Kwaidan (1964), Circus World (1964), Mary Poppins (1964), Cleopatra (1963), It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Cardinal (1963), Best of Cinerama (1963), America America (1963), The Victors (1963), The Great Escape (1963), The Leopard (1963), How The West Was Won (1962), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Lolita (1962), The Longest Day (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962), Hartari (1962), The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1962), The Music Man (1962), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grim (1962), The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962), The Counterfiet Traitor (1962), Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), The Guns of Navarone (1961), El Cid (1961), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), King of Kings (1961), West Side Story (1961), Barabbas (1961), A Majority of One (1961), Scent of Mystery (1961), The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (1961), September Storm (1960), Sunrise At Campobello (1960), Can-Can (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Pepe (1960), La dolce vita (1960), Holiday in Spain (1960), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Exodus (1960), Spartacus (1960), The Alamo (1960)

1950s

Ben-Hur (1959) , The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Big Fisherman (1959), Porgy and Bees (1959), The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (1959), The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959), The Young Lions (1958), Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), The Big Country (1958), The Year Long Road (1958), South Pacific (1958), South Seas Adventure (1958), Search for Paradise (1957), The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1957), Raintree Country (1957), A Farewell to Arms (1957), Mother India (1957), Peyton Place (1957), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Giant (1956), War and Peace (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), Seven Wonders Of The World (1956), King And I (1956), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), Helen of Troy (1956), High Society (1956), Richard III (1955), Oklahoma! (1955), Battle Cry (1955), Son of Sinbad (1955), Guys and Dolls (1955), Cinerama Holiday (1955), A Star is Born (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), Seven Samurai (1954), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Fatal Desire (1954), The Mad Magician (1954), Gog (1954), Drums of Tahiti (1954), Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954), Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954), Dragonfly Squadron (1954), Gorilla at Large (1954), Jivaro (1954), Dangerous Mission (1954), Southwest Passage (1954), Top Banana (1954), The Bounty Hunter (1954), Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), Sangaree (1953), Second Chance (1953), Money from Home (1953), Cease Fire (1953), The Robe (1953), The French Line (1953), Miss Sadie Thompson (1953), Flight to Tangier (1953), Fort Ti (1953), Taza, Son of Cochise (1953), The French Line (1953), The Glass Web (1953), House of Wax (1953), Those Redheads From Seattle (1953), Robot Monster (1953), Devil’s Canyon (1953), The Maze (1953), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Arena (1953), The Nebraskan (1953), I, the Jury (1953), Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953), I Was a Burlesque Queen (1953), The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953), Inferno (1953), The Wages of Fear (1953), Louisiana Territory (1953), The Moonlighter (1953), It Came From Outer Space (1953), Man in the Dark (1953), Neapolitan Turk (1953), Gun Fury (1953), Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Wings of the Hawk (1953), Hondo (1953), This Is Cinerama (1952), Bwana Devil (1952), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Idiot (1951), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Quo Vadis (1951),

1940s

Samson and Delilah (1949), Hamlet (1948), The Betrayal (1948), The Red Shoes (1948), Ingrid Bergman’s Joan of Arc (1948), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), Robinson Crusoe (1947), Duel in the Sun (1946), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Spellbound (1945), Children of Paradise (1945), Since You Went Away (1944), Wilson (1944), Henry V (1944), An American Romance (1944), This Is the Army (1943), Best Foot Forward (1943), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), The Song of Bernadette (1943), For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943), We the Living (1941), Fantasia (1940)

1930s

Gone With The Wind (1939), Marie Antoinette (1938), Lost Horizon (1937), In Old Chicago (1937), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), César (1936), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935), Cavalcade (1933), The Sign of the Cross (1932), Grand Hotel (1932), Hell’s Angels (1930), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

1920s

The Broadway Melody (1929), Show Boat (1929), Hollywood Revue (1929), The Dessert Song (1929), Rio Rita (1929), Paris (1929), Sally (1929), The Jazz Singer (1927), Chicago (1927), Napoleon (1927), Metropolis (1927), Wings (1927), The King of Kings (1927), Ben-Hur (1925), The Big Parade (1925), Greed (1924), Janice Meredith (1924), The Thief of Bagdad (1924), The Wheel (1923), The Covered Wagon (1923), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Ten Commandments (1923), The Man from M.A.R.S. (1922), Orphans of the Storm (2021)

1910s

J’accuse (1919), Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916), Birth of a Nation (1915), Cabiria (1914), Queen Elizabeth (1912)

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Films Split Into Parts

Wicked (2024/2025), Horizon: An American Sega: Chapter 1/ 2 (2024), Rebel Moon (2023/2024), Fast X (2023-2024), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023/????), Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning (2023/2025), Dune: Part 1/2/3 (2021/2024/????), The Avengers: Infinity War/End Game (2018/2019), It (2017/2018), Baahubali 2: The Beginning/ Conclusion (2015/2017) Hunger Games: Mocking Jay (2014/2015), Nymphomaniac (2013/2014), The Hobbit Trilogy (2012/2013/2014), Twilight: Breaking Dawn (2011/2012), Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2010/2011), Che: A Revolutionary Life (2008), Kingdom of War (2007), Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 (2003/2004), Joan the Maid (1994), Little Dorrit (1987), War and Peace (1965/1966), The Human Condition Trilogy (1959/1961), Ivan the Terrible (1944), Dr. Mabuse; der Spieler (1922)

Consecutive Prequels and Sequels

Halloween Ends (2022)/Halloween Kills (2021)/Halloween (2018), The Incredibles II (2018)/The Incredibles (2004), The Muppets: Most Wanted (2014)/The Muppets (2011), Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)/Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009), The Thing (2011/1982), Crank: High Voltage (2009)/Crank (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008)/Casino Royale (2006), The Matrix: Revolutions (2003)/The Matrix: Reloaded (2003), Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)/Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)/Mortal Kombat (1995), Back to the Future III (1990)/Back to the Future II (1989), The Karate Kid 2 (1986)/The Karate Kid (1984), Friday the 13th Part IV (1984)/Friday the 13th Part III (1982)/Friday the 13th Part II (1981), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)/Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Halloween II (1981)/Halloween (1978)

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