Time-loop movies and movies with jumbled chronologies

TIME-LOOP MOVIES

I think a time loop movie is a branching narrative presented in linear form, and therefore of interest to us. And there are so many!

• Wikipedia's list

• Groundhog Day—the first and classic
• 50 First Dates is not about a time loop, but amnesia, but I think it counts, and it's a total rom-com if that's your poison
• Happy Death Day 4.5 STARS; Review 2: 4.5 STARS!
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Oppenheimer
• Mirror for a Hero
• Arrival
• Palm Springs
• Source Code
• Déjà Vu
• Run Lola Run
• Edge of Tomorrow
• When We First Met
• Two Distant Strangers (short subject but plenty to talk about) 4.5 STARS!

MOVIES WITH STRANGE CHRONOLOGY

• Wikipedia's List. This list is a bit promiscuous. There are many, many great films listed. Some may take the form of simply bouncing between two parts of the timeline, as an aging Cole Porter reminisces about his carefree youth, and might not be very interesting as a jumbled chronology. Consider a story within a frame story as different than a jumbled timeline (as with Titanic). Others may be straight up incoherent and probably belong on some other list (Schizopolis, Mulholland Drive). Please choose something that is on the experimental side.

• Tenet
• Time Lapse
• Sliding Doors—not exactly a time loop, but another cinematic branching narrative
• 21 Grams
• Babel
• Amores Perros
• Boyhood
• Rashomon
• Memento< Review 2/li>

MOVIES THAT ATTEMPT "REAL TIME"

• Slacker
• Time Code

WILLIAM'S BEST TIME-TRAVEL MOVIES

These are not appropriate for the time-loop-film assignment--the time-travel story demands its own semester-long class—-but recommended nonetheless.

• Primer
• 12 Monkeys
• La Jetee
• Time Bandits is great, but not very conceptually driven