Top 10 Timepieces In Cinema
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Timepieces in cinema, like offices, are prisons. Mental prisons rather than physical, the mental prison as a deadline. They bind and squeeze the protagonist’s soul. They are reminders of his mortality, and they are a source of tension against which filmmakers measure the character’s well being. When a timepiece shows up in a picture, it’s rarely a good sign.
Once again, many excellent titles had to be left off, including The Awful Truth, Laura and Glengarry Glen Ross (again).
In no particular order.
The Stranger (Orson Welles, 1946)
Nominated by @morepie100, @alaholloway, @GloriaBB.
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927
Suggested by @PeterDexter2 and Fiona Latter.
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
@SkotArmstrong selected this title.
Days Of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai, 1990)
@Shubhamag02 suggested this.
The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948)
Suggested by @allanholloway, @rickburin, @blancmarc20 and @aalanester.
What Time Is It There? (Ming-Liang Tsai, 1990)
Nominated by @harlegator68, Richie Abraham and @12pt9.
For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965)
@BuddyWindRush nominated this.
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Thanks to @jhpcine and @allanholloway.
Night On Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
Nominated by @ellie_ST, @MrSandyWilson and @carlquintanilla.
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