24 Hours or Less Mini-List Discussion + Suggestions
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:43 am
MINI-LIST PROJECT: 24 HOURS OR LESS
August 4 - September 18
Feature films in which the narrative timespan consists primarily of one 24-hour period or less are eligible for this vote. Only films where a super-majority of the running time is devoted to one 24-hour period or less are eligible— for the purposes of this list, at minimum approximately 3/4 of the running time should be devoted to this timeframe. So, for example, a film taking place primarily over one night that has a coda set three months later would be eligible. A film taking place over several nights would not. Films must be feature-length, using the Academy's distinction of forty-five minutes or longer. Films that use the same 24 hour period (Groundhog Day, Source Code, &c) are eligible. Films with elaborate flashbacks where the central present-day narrative is under 24-hours are eligible (Sorry, Wrong Number &c), but c’mon (see exception section below)
If you have a question on whether a given film is eligible, please ask in the thread or PM me (I may still direct you to publicly ask if I haven’t seen the film and can’t confirm on my own). An attempt will be made in this first post to compile eligible films, though by no means must your titles come solely from these films (though if you are going to vote for something and it isn’t listed, you should say something so I can list it!).
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The minimum and standard number of submitted films for each participating member is 10, in ranked order (With number one being the best and so on down the line). However, if you feel especially well-versed in this genre or just can’t bare to limit yourself to a mere ten titles, you may submit up to twenty ranked titles (ie 20 total max) or any variant number between ten and twenty (so yes, your list may contain eleven films, if you must show your Spinal Tap fandom at all available opportunities).
Members who submit only ten films and those who submit a maximum twenty titles will still be on even footing when it comes to the points assigned for the top ten (ie the film in their number one slot will be worth twenty points on everyone’s list).
Lists should be PMed to me, domino harvey, no later than September 18th. No lists will be accepted before August 3rd.
FORUM RESOURCES
TK
INCOMPLETE LIST OF ELIGIBLE FILMS
A C T I O N
Air Force One, Alien, Assault on Precinct 13, Attack the Block, Broken Arrow, Crank, Die Hard, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Duel, Escape from New York, Executive Decision, Gravity, Green Room, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park, Run Lola Run, Runaway Train, Snake Eyes, Snowpiercer, Source Code, Speed, Trespass, Turbulence, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
C O M E D Y
After Hours, Arsenic and Old Lace, Baby’s Day Out, Bachelorette, Blind Date, Boeing Boeing, Butterflies Are Free, Career Opportunities, Charley’s Aunt, Clerks, Clockwise, Clue, the Daytrippers, Dr Strangelove, Dude, Where’s My Car?, Friday, the Front Page, Go, Groundhog Day, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, His Girl Friday, the House of Yes, House Party, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jingle All the Way, Mallrats, Midnight Madness, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the Night Before (2015), Quick Change, Roman Holiday, the Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming, Slacker, Sunday in New York, Take Me Home Tonight, 30 Minutes or Less, Twentieth Century, Walk of Shame, Wet Hot American Summer, Why Stop Now?
D I S A S T E R
Airport, Airport 1975, Airport ’77, Airplane!, the Cassandra Crossing, the Concorde... Airport '79, Earthquake, the High and the Mighty, the Last Voyage, the Poseidon Adventure, the Towering Inferno, United 93, World Trade Center
D R A M A
A Christmas Carol (most versions), A Single Man, A Wedding, Abigail's Party, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Bicycle Thieves, Butley, By Dawn's Early Light, Carnage, Carola, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cleo From 5 to 7, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, Draft Day, Dutchman, Faces, Fail-Safe, Falling Down, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Fruitvale Station, Funny Games, Glengarry Glen Ross, God on Trial, Hard Candy, It's a Wonderful Life, Judgment Night, Knife in the Water, the Last Hurrah, Last Night, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Magnolia, the Maids, Margin Call, Marie and Bruce, Miracle Mile, Money Monster, My Dinner With Andre, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Panic Room, the Paper, Phonebooth, Picnic, Pieces of April, Rope, Salome (Pacino), September, the Swimmer, the Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Through a Glass Darkly, Timecode, 12 Angry Men, 25th Hour, the Warriors, Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Winter Light
F L A S H B A C K / S T O R Y - T E L L I N G
As stated up-post, flashback-heavy films, wherein the "real time" narrative is within the 24-hour timeframe but the majority of the film takes place in the past via flashbacks or consists of characters telling a story/stories, are technically eligible, but you are getting far far away from the spirit of the list when you go out on this limb. I won't list all of the films this covers, but some notable examples:
Asylum (and other portmanteau horror films of its ilk), Christmas Holiday, Double Indemnity, Frailty, the Last Temptation of Christ, the Princess Bride, Reefer Madness: the Movie Musical, Sorry, Wrong Number, the Usual Suspects, the Woman in the Window (most absurd example, to be sure)
H O R R O R
Alone in the Dark (1982), Cloverfield, Cold Prey, Cold Prey 2, Cooties, Demons, the Descent, Devil, the Evil Dead, the Faculty, From Dusk Till Dawn, the Funhouse, Halloween, Halloween II, Hatchet (and sequels), Haute tension, Home Sweet Home, House on Haunted Hill (original and remake), Inside, Jeepers Creepers, Jeepers Creepers 2, My Bloody Valentine, Night of the Demons, Night of the Living Dead, the Old Dark House, Planet Terror, Pontypool, the Prowler, the Purge (and all sequels), REC, REC2, the Return of the Living Dead, Rogue, Silent House, the Slumber Party Massacre, the Strangers, Targets, Terror Train, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Next Generation, Tourist Trap, Tremors, Triangle, Vacancy, Vamp, Wait Until Dark, You're Next
M U S I C A L S
On the Town, the Rocky Horror Picture Show
N O I R
Bad Day at Black Rock, Beware, My Lovely, the Big Night, Cause for Alarm!, City That Never Sleeps, Collateral, Crossfire, the Dark Past, Deadline at Dawn, Detective Story, the Devil Thumbs a Ride, Dial 1119, Don’t Bother to Knock, Elevator to the Gallows, 14 Hours, the Glass Wall, the Ice Harvest, Into the Night, Jeopardy!, Key Largo, the Killing, the Narrow Margin, Nick of Time, Night and the City, 99 River Street, Odd Man Out, Red Eye, Reservoir Dogs, the Set-Up, Suddenly, Touch of Evil, the Trap, Two Men in Manhattan, Two O’Clock Courage, Union Station, Victoria
W A R
All Through the Night, the Ascent, Conspiracy, Fury, the Longest Day, 1941, Rambo: First Blood, Twilight's Last Gleaming
W E S T E R N S
the Gunfighter, the Hateful Eight, High Noon, Quantez, Silver Lode
Y O U T H
Adventures in Babysitting, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, American Graffiti, the Breakfast Club, Can't Hardly Wait, Dazed and Confused, Detroit Rock City, Elephant, Empire Records, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the Goonies, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Kids, License to Drive, the Myth of the American Sleepover, the Night Before (1988), Rebel Without a Cause, Sixteen Candles, Stand by Me, Superbad, Zazie dans le metro
N O T A B L E . E X C E P T I O N S
Eyes Wide Shut does not technically fit the parameters of the project, but it would be ridiculous to not count it eligible given that the entire film is centered around One Eventful Night. So, it’s eligible.
30 Days of Night may take place over one loooong Alaskan night, but it's well over 24 hours, so ineligible.
Toby Dammit is eligible, as portmanteau film segments are not necessarily ineligible, there just aren't many long enough to meet the "feature" parameter!
Films that devote over half their running time to a short period of narrative time, like Dead Alive and Matinee, may be memorable, but they don't meet the confines of the list.
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