{"id":15267,"date":"2022-10-11T20:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15267"},"modified":"2022-10-11T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:59:42","slug":"the-timekeepers-of-eternity-2021-aristotelis-maragkos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15267","title":{"rendered":"The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021, Aristotelis Maragkos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect example of a whim of an experimental concept getting painstakingly taken all the way, the arthouse festival-film equivalent of those people who create live-action remake videos of Mario Kart games.  In Stephen King&#8217;s <em>The Langoliers<\/em>, the villain&#8217;s extreme &#8220;idle hands&#8221; anxiety has him constantly tearing paper, so Maragkos has printed the 3-hour TV version onto copy paper and ripped and torn it into an hour-long edit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/timekeepers1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/timekeepers2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cool concept, but the problem with your source material being a 1990&#8217;s TV movie is that your experimental film feels a lot like a 1990&#8217;s TV movie, which is quite bad, especially when the never-idle Bronson Pinchot is onscreen.  Billy Crystal&#8217;s wife in <em>City Slickers<\/em> is top billed, for some reason.  Dean Stockwell plays a mystery writer who has Got It All Figured Out (RIP Angela Lansbury).  Frankie Faison is here to be the Black guy who gets killed first.  There&#8217;s a blind Shining-child who helps out by feeling the spooky vibes.  Not gonna blame King (who cameos) since I remember digging the original story, and despite all the clunky dialogue, the new version is worth the ride.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/timekeepers3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/timekeepers4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect example of a whim of an experimental concept getting painstakingly taken all the way, the arthouse festival-film equivalent of those people who create live-action remake videos of Mario Kart games. In Stephen King&#8217;s The Langoliers, the villain&#8217;s extreme &#8220;idle hands&#8221; anxiety has him constantly tearing paper, so Maragkos has printed the 3-hour TV version [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,96,54,2358],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-animation","tag-horror","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15310,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15267\/revisions\/15310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}