Films made in "Real Time" S/D

Russian Ark, though I've not seen it. Real time, one take.

has anyone seen the real time heist movie starring bruce campbell?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120042/

i havent, but id sure like to.

Cleo 5-7, but they cheat. (cut down car rides, when she changes clothes).

it doesn't have top be one take, just real time, so it's not a cheat.

ah right, maybe it is, i misunderstood your post.

The thing with Cleo is it ostensibly covers two hours, but the film is only 90 minutes long.

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that iranian film where the girl goes to buy the goldfish?

Miracle Mile

Nick of Time, with Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken. Destroy.

That 4-way split-screen effort by Mike Figgis, with Saffron Burrows. Timecode? Diverting. By definition.

Run Lola Run?

lotsa Warhols

12 Angry Men, obviously.

i would say russian ark is the only film actually MADE in real time.

Is it actually any good?

i liked it a lot!

it's pretty... flouncy though.

i have no idea if i would like it if i saw it again!

Run Lola Run isn't real time. In fact, with the 3 alternate versions of the story, the film takes longer than the "events."

before sunset is a good example of a movie set in real time.

i would say russian ark is the only film actually MADE in real time.

-- s1ocki, Friday, November 16, 2007 2:57 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

bah, of course. strike the "made" part.

i saw russian ark twice - better the 2nd time!

I'm making one next week!!!

before sunset, yeah. linklater is obviously attracted to the idea. tape is real time too, i think. lots of his movies are in pretty compressed timeframes, 18-24 hours. (and in before sunset ethan hawke's character is fantasizing about writing a book that all takes place in the duration of one song.)

russian ark is pretty cool, but i didn't get a lot of the references. (don't know enough russian history i guess.) worth it for the last 15 minutes or so all by itself.

i think a single girl is real time right up to the final scene (which it would have been better without).

was mr. lazerescu real time? seemed like it was more over 5 or 6 hours. by the end the ambulance nurse is pleading about how they've been driving him around all night. it felt like it started around 10 p.m. and ended around 3 or 4 in the morning.

high noon sort of purports to be in real time, but i've never watched it against a clock.

RA is excellent and needs to be seen in the cinema for the whole sweeping camera business to weave its magic. There are lots of allusions to russian history but the sheet grandeur of the thing is worth watching. I would love to see a "Making of..." of that - it must have been a nightmare.

DePalma's Snake Eyes is also in real time. Not a very good movie though.

Running Time, the Bruce Campbell heist movie mentioned upthread, is quite good. It's also one of those movies seemingly done in one shot, but when I saw it a film festival the director was there, and he explained that there are actually two or three cuts there, they're just better hidden than in Rope. I think Russian Ark is the only feature film ever made which really is just one shot.

is 'russian ark' actually set in real-time tho? iirc it's like lots of different historical periods in one shot?

films that begin and end in the same scene count.

i thought this was going to another cloverfield thread!

Die Hard

Is Reservoir Dogs in real time (apart from the flashbacks)?

12 Angry Men isn't quite in real time if you're a pedant.

Pretty sure Die Hard isn't real time at all.

Phone Booth might be tho?

Phone Booth is, as is Before Sunset. Can't think of any others offhand.

i don't think 'die hard' is.

use of "flashbacks" is key to this question. i think it's an interesting one. 'reservoir dogs' is not real time cos the diner scene at the start is not part of the heist story.

Conceivably you could have a flashback and then return to the present the precise number of minutes it takes the flashback to play out. But the writer/director can always argue that a flashback is instantaneous in the character's mind no matter how long it takes to play out. But I can't think of any films that have deliberately tried to use "real time" and flashbacks together anyway.

But I can't think of any films that have deliberately tried to use "real time" and flashbacks together anyway.

i think the whole of 'once upon a time in america' is an opium dream y/n?

and that's a long film.

Sounds like something Leone made up to explain its shortcomings

Ah true that. I don't think it's real time in that sense tho - there's no sense that the dream lasts for 4 hours or whatever as far as I remember.

films where someone is remembering something do not count.

yeah BEFORE SUNSET wins.

i would say russian ark is the only film actually MADE in real time.

Why would Timecode not count?

tape is real time too, i think.

I was in the stage play of Tape a couple years back and it's in real time so, yeah, I'd imagine the film version is done the same way. Tape is a just a flat-out terribly written play, though.

Back to the Future.

Why would Timecode not count?

-- energy flash gordon, Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:21 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Link

forgot about that one!

was mr. lazerescu real time? seemed like it was more over 5 or 6 hours. by the end the ambulance nurse is pleading about how they've been driving him around all night. it felt like it started around 10 p.m. and ended around 3 or 4 in the morning.

Yeah, there are definitely a few short ellipses. I think the long sequence at the apartment is real time, though.

Russian Ark is sort of a must see by definition (whatever I mean by that). I've watched it a few times and it always gets me melancholy.

i think a single girl is real time right up to the final scene (which it would have been better without).

YES! This was a fantastic film until the epilogue.