Robert: Other films which play with time are: THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (H.G.Wells 1937, British, dir. by Lothar Mendes), who abuses the magic power given to him by the gods, and has to go back in time to to undo the damage he's caused. 2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY(1968, Kubrick) which deals with accelerated time. Maybe RASHOMON (1951 Kurosawa), which deals with different views of the same time period. (or its poor remake, THE OUTRAGE, 1964, Martin Ritt). Even the two TERMINATOR movies have a past/future connection. And don't forget THE TIME MACHINE (1960, dir George Pal - H.G.Wells again), and many other time travel efforts. There is BIG (1988 Penny Marshall) and similar movies which deal with age/time reversals - a man in a boy's body, and vice versa. There are countless movies with flashbacks (eg: the Paris sequence in CASABLANCA). Also, the excellent suggestions by Donald Larsson. ---------- > From: Robert J. Winer <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: bending time's arrow > Date: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:08 PM > > Film suggestions needed! > I'm trying to put together a film series (in the context of the > millennium passing) which deals with the inevitability of time's arrow. Time > moves forward relentlessly, and what has been done can not be undone. But > certain films play with the fantasy that one can have a second chance to do > it right, by staging sequences in which the same event is replayed, with > progressively altered outcomes. The loss implicit in time's passage can thus > be denied. (The passing of the millennium, in contrast, presses us to bear > awareness of the passage of time.) Among recent films, "Groundhog Day" and > "Run Lola Run" have this structure. A variant of this are the films in which > alternative pathways are successively portrayed; the recent "Sliding Doors" > and Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" are examples of this form. (Less pertinent, > from the point of view of my interest, are films in which time is simply > bent, like "Before the Rain" and "Pulp Fiction." In these films the time > element is a less central issue.) > I need probably five or six titles for my proposal, so I'd like to hear > of other films in which time sequences are repeated. Send me the title, and, > if possible, a very brief plot description. > > Bob Winer > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html