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Originally Posted by BluBonnet
That one had an intermission in theatres (at least when it played in the US in the 90s)
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I saw the four hour version of it in 1977 in a theater, and it too had that same intermission, in the same spot.
Later, in the 90s, I saw the longer cut only at home, and I sat through it in one go.
The DVD and the blu ray have that intermission, too. It's good that Bertolucci put the break where he thought it should be. It's always right after the Donald Sutherland cat scene. I watched the DVD when I first got in back in 2006 in one, epic go, too. Finally, on the blu ray, I watched it over two nights. That one is, I believe, 5 hours and 11 minutes in the uncut version.
I think the longer cut of "Once Upon a Time in America" has an intermission, too. But it comes rather late in the film, which was always kind of strange to me.
When I watched "The Irishman" as a two part, two night mini-series, I put the break a good bit over the halfway mark. I would stop watching at the 2:07 mark, right after De Niro asks Pacino to present an award to him, and they share a laugh. "Part Two" would begin the next evening, with the big awards dinner sequence, which is kind of the centerpiece to the whole film, and then would run till the end. "Part One" was 2 hours, 7 minutes, and and "Part Two" was 1 hour, 22 minutes. On a few occasions where I didn't have 3 1/12 hours laying around, I'd watch "The Irishman" like this.
But I made sure to watch it in one sitting the first couple of times.