"As soon as you hear the timeline, you think: 'This is the classic ticking-clock drama.
Television Neil Genzlinger Hollywood and science-fiction novelists have long known that nothing beats a good pandemic threat for racing-the-clock drama, whether it's "Outbreak" or "24" or "The Andromeda Strain".
Hollywood and science-fiction novelists have long known that nothing beats a good pandemic threat for racing-the-clock drama, whether it's "Outbreak" or "24" or "The Andromeda Strain".
And Bogdan George Apetri's "Periferic" is, like many other recent Romanian festival films, a race-against-the-clock drama of a person caught in a web of ethical predicaments and practical complications.
Judging from the opening episode, the crises are what you'd expect: race-against-the-clock dramas with high stakes.
Abbott's 2000 drama Clocking Off secured his reputation as a writer of both critical and popular acclaim, and State Of Play elevated him to television's elite.
What lies ahead is anyone's guess, but set your clocks for the drama - just as a budding 10-year-old Bedford runner did on August 11 , 1984when she rose in the middle of the night to watch the 3,000 metres from Los Angeles, the classic duel between Mary Decker and Zola Budd.
Danny Brocklehurst, who in 2001 got his big break writing two episodes of factory drama Clocking Off, says it has been shown time and time again that "this is an area where a lot of excellent creative output has been generated".
And then the clock-strikes-midnight drama.
Yet, as in the 1945 drama "The Clock," directed by Minnelli's father, Vincente, and starring her mother, Judy Garland, the huge scenographic mechanism serves merely as a backdrop for an intimate two-person romance, suggesting that the real life of the city is the liberated inner life it fosters.
