The Clock Timeline
A list of films and television show clips to illustrate minute by minute in this video installation by Christian Marclay.
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- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsRoger MooreBarbara BachCurd JürgensJames Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.12:00 AM - close-up of a clock face; 4:00 AM - while making love to a woman on a bearskin rug, Roger Moore is summoned to an assignment by a printout from his watch; 5:49 PM - a missile is launched underwater
- DirectorDavid DobkinStarsJackie ChanOwen WilsonFann WongWhen a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.12:00 AM - Big Ben; 12:12 AM - Owen Wilson hangs from minute hand of Big Ben while Jackie Chan is busy fighting off Aidan Gillen inside the clockworks
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesEdward G. RobinsonLoretta YoungAn investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.12:00 AM - Orson Welles is stabbed by a clock tower figure carrying a sword as the clock rings at midnight; 5:20 AM - Loretta Young wakes up from a dream; 5:41 AM - Loretta Young in bed; 2:31 PM - Orson Welles begins teaching a class; 3:40 PM - Edward G. Robinson climbs a ladder; 3:44 PM - Orson Welles goes to the library; 9:15 PM - Loretta Young talks to Orson Welles during a phone call; 11:00 PM - clock tower
- DirectorJames McTeigueStarsHugo WeavingNatalie PortmanRupert GravesIn a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.12:00 AM - Big Ben explodes; 7:00 PM - Stephen Rea's alarm goes off; 11:00 PM - Natalie Portman realizes the time and mutters "Shit!"
- DirectorRobert RossenStarsPaul NewmanJackie GleasonPiper LaurieAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.12:00 AM - clock; 1:32 AM - clock; 4:00 AM - clock; 5:41 AM - Paul Newman lies in bed; 8:00 PM - Jackie Gleason enters a pool hall
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsRufus SewellKiefer SutherlandJennifer ConnellyA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.12:00 AM - clock faces; 5:38 AM - false memories; 6:35 AM - a detective talks to the desk clerk of a hotel
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsGene WilderMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanAn American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.12:00 AM - grandfather clock; 1:01 AM - Cloris Leachman sets Peter Boyle free; 10:31 PM - angry mob
- DirectorJon AmielStarsSean ConneryCatherine Zeta-JonesVing RhamesInsurance investigator Virginia Baker deems that the thief Robert MacDougal has robbed a Rembrandt painting. To retrieve the painting, she poses as an art thief, cooperating with him in criminal acts.12:00 AM - clock face; 12:02 AM - clock face; 6:33 AM - Catherine Zeta Jones waits at a train station; 10:30 PM - digital watches
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsJerry LewisEd WynnJudith AndersonA gender-swapped retelling of Charles Perrault's classic, where Cinderfella is visited by a fairy godfather to help him escape from his wicked stepmother and stepbrothers.12:00 AM - clock face; 8:44 AM - Jerry Lewis puts a tray in a dumbwaiter
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonGeorges AdetIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.12:00 AM - clock face; 12:06 AM - in an upheaved boudoir, Woody Allen's lover compliments his lovemaking, which he explains by saying he's had a lot of practice by himself
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDennis WeaverHarry TownesWright KingConvicted killer Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare in which he is sentenced to death by electrocution. He tries to convince those around him that they are imaginary and will cease to exist if he is executed.12:00 AM - clock face
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsVáclav NeckárJosef SomrVlastimil BrodskýAn apprentice train dispatcher looks for love while aiding his colleagues in their resistance against the Nazis.12:00 AM - clock; 8:05 AM - a man looks out the window; 11:02 AM - clock
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.12:00 AM - clock face; 9:21 PM - Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Costner put their daughter to sleep
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsMichael CainePierce BrosnanNed BeattyJohn Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.12:00 AM - Big Ben on television; 6:30 AM - Michael Caine drives his car onto a train platform, skids to a stop just as his train is taking off, runs from the car and jumps onto the back of the train; 9:00 PM - Pierce Brosnan eats while listening to the radio; 9:07 PM - Pierce Brosnan turns off a radio
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsMelanie GriffithTommy Lee JonesStingA crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot.12:00 AM - clock; 8:15 AM - alarm clock; 8:21 AM - Sean Bean sits in bed; 9:55 AM - in a shopping center, Melanie Griffith runs into Sean Bean and drops her bags
- DirectorRobert MooreStarsPeter FalkAlec GuinnessPeter SellersFive famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.12:00 AM - clock
- DirectorJean RollinStarsSandra JulienJean-Marie DurandJacques RobiollesA young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.12:00 AM - a vampire climbs out of a grandfather clock
- DirectorDavid SmithStarsBillie PiperLuke MablyEmma CatherwoodFive students unwittingly set off a spirit clock in a rundown London mansion. As the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred, the friends reveal their darkest secrets and begin to lapse into a haze of paranoia and violence.12:00 AM - Billie Piper kills Luke Mably by pushing a clock with a blade onto him; 12:24 AM - Sam Troughton looks at a clock; 12:28 AM - clock face; 1:12 AM - Billie Piper gets in bed and looks at a photograph; 2:05 PM - Sam Troughton checks his watch; 4:30 PM - Sam Troughton's watch; 5:11 PM - Billie Piper watches Sam Troughton fix a grandfather clock; 10:45 PM - Billie Piper looks at a grandfather clock
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.12:01 AM - Clark Gable comforts his daughter who has just had a nightmare; 10:26 AM - Vivian Leigh in bed; 3:14 PM - Vivien Leigh tries to give a watch to Oscar Polk; 3:39 PM - sundial that reads "Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of"
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsRichard DreyfussKurt RussellEmmy RossumOn New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.12:01 AM - Richard Dreyfuss checks his cell phone
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLloyd BridgesAndrew KeirSue LloydDuring World War II, a commando leader named Major Jamie Wilson leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.12:01 AM - Andrew Keir checks his watch; 11:00 PM - Andrew Keir starts a clock
- DirectorChristopher SmithStarsFranka PotenteSean HarrisVas BlackwoodTrapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.12:02 AM - Franka Potente gets on the subway
- DirectorJohn CromwellEdward F. ClineTay GarnettStarsClaudette ColbertJennifer JonesJoseph CottenWith her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.12:02 AM - Jennifer Jones says goodbye to Robert Walker and he gives her his watch as his train is departing; 12:03 AM - Monty Woolley runs through a train station and asks if the train has left; 8:12 AM - Claudette Colbert prepares breakfast; 4:26 PM - Claudette Colbert at a cocktail lounge; 6:42 PM - Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker stranded in the rain
- DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.12:03 AM - wall clock; 12:37 AM - clock face; 5:57 AM - Marlene Dietrich looks at a clock; 5:58 AM - train arrives; 1:15 PM - Marlene Dietrich buys a watch; 1:30 PM - Marlene Dietrich gives Clive Brook a watch; 9:30 PM - Marlene Dietrich sits down with Clive Brook on a train; 10:32 PM - a train arrives
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsGeraldine McEwanIan RichardsonTara FitzgeraldDolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.12:03 AM - clock; 10:57 AM - coroner estimates time of death; 10:35 PM - ballroom
