Time Code
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Actor: Golden Brooks, Richard Edson, Saffron Burrows, Viveka Davis, Xander BerkeleyDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-12-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Time Code
Movie Review: quite brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
THE NEW FILM MEDIUM OF THE FUTURE IS NOT EVEN FILM! IT IS DIGITAL VIDEO. THIS FILM IS QUITE BRILLIANT AND INNOVATIVE IN MANY WAYS. THE FIRST IS THAT FIGGIS BRINGS THIS NEW MEDIUM TO A FAIRLY CONVENTIONAL MAINSTREAM AUDIENCE. SURE, DOGME 95 IN DENMARK, DANCER IN THE DARK, ETC. HAVE ALL DEALT WITH THE DIGITAL MEDIUM. BUT FIGGIS, AN ACADEMY AWARD WINNER, SHOWS A MASS AUDIENCE THE POSSIBILITIES OF DIGITAL VIDEO. GETTING BIG NAME ACTORS AND ACTRESSES TO HELP HIM IN HIS EXPERIMENT DIDN'T HURT HIS CAUSE EITHER. SECONDLY, NO ONE HAS EVER SHOT A FILM (WITH A VISIBLE STORY) IS ONE TAKE. HITCHCOCK CAME CLOSE IN ROPE, BUT IT WAS NOT A TRUE REAL TIME FILM. FIGGIS PRESENTS NO GIMMICKS IN HIS SHOOTING. ONE REALLY FEELS AS IF THEY MIGHT BE WITNESSING ONE AND A HALF HOURS OF HOLLYWOOD LIFE. AND ON THAT SCALE, REAL TIME SHOOTING THAT IS, IT IS MAYBE THE MOST INNOVATIVE FILM EVER MADE. I KNOW OF NO OTHER NARRATIVE FILM THAT HAS ACHIEVED SUCH A FEAT. I ACTUALLY DO NOT LIKE FIGGIS. BUT THIS FILM IS HARD TO IGNORE. IT TAKES IDEAS OF FILM, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE ART, SATIRE, COMEDY, AND NUMEROUS OTHER THINGS AND BLENDS THEM INTO A SINGLE IDEA. DO NOT BE CAUGHT UP IN THE PLAOT. IT IS ONLY SECONDARY. SURE...WE HAVE SEEN FILMS ABOUT THE DEMISE OF HOLLYWOOD A MILLION TIMES. BUT THAT WAS ONLY IN THE STORY LINE. IN TIMECODE WE GET THE DEMISE OF HOLLYWOOD AS THE PLOT, BUT THE REAL DEMISE OF HOLLYWOOD AND HOLLYWOOD FILMMAKING IS IN THE ACTUAL MAKING OF THE FILM ITSELF.
Summary of Time Code
Timecode divides the screen into four parts and follows, in four uninterrupted shots, a series of overlapping stories. There's the wife (Saffron Burrows) of a movie producer (Stellan Skarskård) who's considering leaving him; the producer is having an affair with an aspiring actress (Salma Hayek); and the actress is the lover of a wealthy woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who jealously plants a bug in the actress's purse when the actress pretends to go to an audition. Meanwhile, the producer's partners and employees (Holly Hunter, Xander Berkeley, Steven Weber, and others) are trying to cope with the producer's increasing instability. There's a drug-dealing security guard; a dim massage therapist; a temperamental director who can't find the right actress; and assorted other Hollywood types who float in and out of the action. Earthquakes and aftershocks shake things up, a lot of cocaine is snorted, and there's some sex and some violence, all improvised by the actors around a story set up by the director, Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas).The emotional effect of any story is muted by the constant distraction of trying to take in four screens at once, though at times the stories resonate off each other nicely. It's an interesting experiment, made possible by the portability and longer takes of digital cameras; anyone interested in how digital technology has affected filmmaking will want to see this novel film. --Bret Fetzer
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