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    Time Travel at the BFI

    The BFI are having an all-night time travel festival, which is fair enough, but look at the fucking selection of films! What did they do - rent 4 dvds for £5 from Blockbuster or something?! Christ, that's a bad line up! Only 'Twelve Monkeys' offers any kind of quality and even then it's a film based on another one - Chris Marker's far superior 'La Jetee'.

    Sure, I love 'Terminator 2' and 'Highlander' as tacky 'guilty pleasures', but this represents a great opportunity missed, as far as I'm concerned. Aside from 'La Jetee', they could also have had 'Donnie Darko', 'Solaris', 'The Time Machine' or even lighter-hearted things like 'Groundhog Day' or the Bill & Ted movies. Instead, that selection they plumped for just shows a really leaden imagination.

    So - what others have I forgotten? What would you like to see added to a bill so themed?

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    Time Travel at the BFI

    Got to have 'Planet of the Apes', especially with Heston just having popped his clogs

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      #3
      Time Travel at the BFI

      Time Bandits is the must-have. And Timecop, of course.

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        #4
        Time Travel at the BFI

        Hang on: they've picked "Back To The Future Part II" ahead of the original?

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          #5
          Time Travel at the BFI

          What about Bill and Ted? Are they showing that?

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            #6
            Time Travel at the BFI

            Well if they didn't find room for wacked-out-1977-Czechoslovakian-assassinating-Hitler caper Tomorrow I'll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea then they're simply not trying.

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              #7
              Time Travel at the BFI

              BTTF Part 2, Highlander, Twelve Monkeys and Terminator 2.

              I've got BTTF, Bill & Ted, Planet Of The Apes and Groundhog Day. I should go head to head with them.

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                #8
                Time Travel at the BFI

                It's been a few years since I've seen it but I don't remember there being any actual time-travelling (in the usual sense of the term) by the characters in Highlander . Isn't it just set over several hundred years with a non-linear structure?

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                  #9
                  Time Travel at the BFI

                  Johanista wrote:
                  It's been a few years since I've seen it but I don't remember there being any actual time-travelling (in the usual sense of the term) by the characters in Highlander . Isn't it just set over several hundred years with a non-linear structure?
                  Actually, yes - you're right. It doesn't qualify at all. Further evidence of the idiocy of the so-called programming of that 'festival'.

                  Anyhow...

                  'Primer'

                  'The Butterfly Effect'

                  'Somewhere in Time'

                  'Peggy Sue Got Married'

                  There's a list here.

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                    #10
                    Time Travel at the BFI

                    It's not a great looking line-up. But although there's lot of great arty films about time, there aren't that many brilliant films about time travel, are there?

                    Something like Mirror is amazing, but there's no specific traveling involved, is there. Solaris doesn't have time travel either, unless it's in a very marginal part of the film.

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                      #11
                      Time Travel at the BFI

                      To be honest, the whole time series looks a bit ropey. There should be loads of amazing films in there.

                      Mind you, you can watch films at BFI Southbank for only a fiver on Tuesdays. Worth taking time out for that, I'd say.

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                        #12
                        Time Travel at the BFI

                        I mean, what do Fata Morgana, Dr Strangelove and The Hudsucker Proxy have to do with time, except in an extremely vague sense?

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                          #13
                          Time Travel at the BFI

                          The Hudsucker Proxy? I enjoy it but apart from the characteristic red herring motif of the clock . . .

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                            #14
                            Time Travel at the BFI

                            I think the argument is it's a 'time capsule' of the past. Unlike, say, LA Confidential, Chinatown, or, er....

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                              #15
                              Time Travel at the BFI

                              How has "The Time Travellers" not troubled the scorer on this one?

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                                #16
                                Time Travel at the BFI

                                I'd like to see Idaho Transfer and Slaughterhouse-Five on the bill.

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