Especially since there’s an actual edit in there that they lied about in the promotion.
–Cliffy
Does the show 24 count? (Heh.)
I’m going to be really vague here, but maybe somebody can fill in the details I’ve forgotten or that I’m mistaken about…
Sometime in the early '90s, I saw a movie that was five or six different stories stuck together. All the stories took place in taxis, in various cities around the world. All took place in real-time, about twenty minutes. And all were supposed to be taking place simultaneously, so the story in Los Angeles was set in the early evening while the taxi driver in Helsinki spun around a traffic circle a few times to help keep himself awake through the graveyard shift.
Can anybody help me identify this movie?
Night on Earth, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch (and featuring some beautiful music by Tom Waits).
AARRGGHHH! One too many previews…
That would be the Jim Jarmusch film Night On Earth. The same sort of idea was used in his film Mystery Train, although all the action took place around Memphis and there was some interaction between stories.
Sounds like Night On Earth.
It is once they get to the restaurant, but there are brief scenes before and after that that are not (a cut to Wally on the subway, for example)
Two mentions of Empire in two days! Gotta be some kinda record.
More or less, Run Lola Run (1998) was three versions of the same half hour or so. This isn’t quite true, since there were the flash-forwards showing us the rest of various minor character’s lives. I don’t remember anymore how continuous the events of the half hours were.
The Richard Linklater movie Before Sunset (2004) is real time. It’s two hours of a reunited couple’s conversations. It’s a sequel to his movie Before Sunrise, which isn’t quite real time but takes place over about 18 hours in the same couple’s lives. In a way, this makes the conclusion of Before Sunset rather odd, since we’re clearly lead to believe that the couple made a mistake by not meeting again after the first film and they should stay together now that they’ve met again. And yet, they’ve know each other less than 24 hours in their entire lives (and they’re about 32 years old in the second film).