Time After Time (Meyer, 1979): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.20pm
This film is part of the Destination Time Travel season at BFI Southbank and also screens on November 13th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
It lacks a certain grace in execution, but this SF/romantic
comedy-thriller, directed by Nicholas Meyer from his own novel, is
clever and well calculated. Malcolm McDowell is H.G. Wells, pursuing
Jack the Ripper (David Warner) into 1979 San Francisco, via his time
machine. The plot gimmick occasions some funny and warming scenes,
particularly when Wells falls in love with a comely, wigged-out
California lady (Mary Steenburgen). It isn’t the writer’s picture that
the credits might suggest—much of its charm is a product of Steenburgen
and McDowell’s unlikely chemistry, British deliberation joined with
fresh west coast naivete.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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