Is there some way to research how many movies have had intermissions? I just saw part of Oliver! today and had forgotten it had an intermission.
Just off the top of my head I can remember:
Oliver
My Fair Lady
Gone With the Wind
Gandhi
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Quo Vadis
How the West Was Won
Dr. Zhivago
plus others I’m sure I’ll remember as soon as I post this thread.
2001: A Space Odyssey had an intermission in its original run.
It’s a Mad Mad mad Mad World also.
2001, and any of the early 3-camera Cinerama movies. They had to pause to change the enormous reels all at once.
ETA: 2001 wasn’t a 3-camera movie, but it had an intermission anyway.
Wikipedia lists quite a few:
The only time I can actually recall experiencing an intermission in the theater, is when we saw the TV version of Bergman’s “Fanny and Alexander”, which ran 5+ hours.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Virtually all Bollywood (Indian) films have intermissions.
ETA: Oops, I see the wiki link mentioned this
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
During my only trip abroad, in Switzerland, I went to see “Batman Returns”. Halfway through it, the movie stopped, the lights went up and everybody went out for a smoke. Even though this movie doesn’t have an intermission, I was told that this was common around there.
Now that I’m older, I wish that ALL movies had an intermission halfway through, for the needed bathroom break.
West Side Story.
I sure could have used one for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. I didn’t get to see the conversation in King’s Cross until I got the DVD for Christmas.
I seem to recall The Blue Max had an intermission. Many films back about that time did, IIRC.
I clearly remember The Last Emperor having an intermission, as I didn’t know that going in and it struck me as odd. Plus, that’s got to be the most recent movie I saw in a theatre with an intermission.
Titanic had my own, beverage-inspired intermission, but the movie didn’t stop for that.
And a prologue! (of sorts). Not an actual film of a band, but a prologue.
I’ll bet several of the films with intermissions had musical prologues. I know 2001 did.
I think “Dances With Wolves” did. Did the “Godfather” movies?
“JFK”, which is also 3 hours long, did not. I remember asking the concession people about this, and decided not to get anything when they said it didn’t.
The most recent film I can remember having an intermission was Braveheart (much needed at the time too)
Tess, the Roman Polanski film with Nastassja Kinski had an intermission
Crivens! Wasn’t there over a year’s intermission between DH part 1 and part 2?