Film List Real Time incl. FREE STREAMS 

Real time is a cinematic experience that, although it is easy to film, it has rarely been attempted: The duration of the film and the duration of the narrative coincide. Who looks closely at how difficult it is to stage a change of scenery? Real time seems to stand in contrast to the cinema's claim to concentrate action. Before sunrise and Before sunset by Richard Linklater work quite differently. The director is much more interested in the charming chatter, the innocent flirting, the everyday philosophy of his characters than in the plot. A couple gets to know each other (and gets to know each other again), the viewer experiences in real time how this happens. Cleo de 5 a 7 by Varda resists a stringent narrative plot. Time code by Mike Figgis divides the canvas into fields to create parallel actions in real time. Lola runs by Tom Tykwer plays with the possibilities of life: What if? His Lola only bridges a short period of time, but is allowed to run again from the beginning. Lola between disaster and happy ending. Real time is also a stylistic means of Kubrick's end-time satire Dr. Strangelove and Sidney Lumet's very similar film Fail safe on the same subject of nuclear war. Since Hitchcock's Rope, the correspondence between film time and real time has been a special feature of thrillers. While Hitchcock's classics philosophize about murder as a legitimate means to showcase his superior intelligence, there is no cut. Lumet's 12 angry men is the second crime classic that almost looks like a play. 88 minutes and Crank are new thrillers that submit to the showdown in real time. They are overshadowed by high noon. Zinneman's real-time western has already become proverbial. His toothache-suffering leading actor Gary Cooper with a suffering face in close-up, the music and the clock again and again are the trademarks of his Western, who most effectively demonstrates how to build up tension with real time.