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The Cure for Insomnia is a 1987 experimental film directed by John Henry Timmis IV, which was, according to Guinness World Records, the longest running film. [1] At 5,220 minutes long (87 hours, or 3 days and 15 hours) in length, the film has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem A Cure for Insomnia [2] over the course of three and a half days, spliced ...
Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World (French: Parcelles d'espoir à l'echo de ce monde) [1] is reputedly the modern era's longest handwritten poem, unveiled on 4 August 2006 by its author French public notary Patrick Huet. It comprises 7,547 verses and is reported to be almost 1 km (994 metres (1,087 yd)) long .
Poem Year published Length Verse form Algerton, Frank C. Columbia: an Epic Poem on the Late Civil War between the Northern and Southern States of North America: 1893: heroic couplet Ammons, A. R. Sphere: The Form of a Motion: 1973: Ammons, A. R. Tape for the Turn of the Year: 1965: Ashbery, John: Flow Chart: 1991: Atherstone, Edwin: The Fall of ...
The Longest Distance (Spanish: La distancia más larga) [3] is a 2013 Venezuelan-Spanish drama film directed by Claudia Pinto. A Venezuelan/Spanish co-production, the film was nominated for Best Ibero-American Film at the 29th Goya Awards .
With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. [1] It is roughly ten times the size of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, roughly five times longer than Dante's Divine Comedy , and about four times the size of the Ramayana and ...
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
Poem Film(s) "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer: Casey at the Bat (1916) Casey at the Bat (1927) Make Mine Music (1946) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Balaclava (1928) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
He became fascinated with palindromes and set out to write a coherent, full-length palindromic poem. The result, the 1034-letter "Edna Waterfall", [3] [4] was for some time listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest palindrome in English. [1] [5] [6]