Playing many different instruments, sometimes switching off to one another, they forge a slippery continuity out of messy glory.
Instead, yet another coaching appointment, late before the start of 2014, saw Mastroeni try to coax some continuity out of what was still a very promising core group of players.
"The Kingdom" takes the breathless visual precision of the Jason Bourne movies — what the film scholar David Bordwell calls "intensive continuity" — out of the abstract hall-of-mirrors universe of intra-C.I.A. skulduggery and into a semiplausible world of international tension.
And yet they're written into us, too; they make up the arbitrary, contradictory continuities out of which families are composed.
A fundamental virtue of the cinema, and maybe even the founding one, is that it makes time ebb and flow: that it conjures a sense of time, of time as such, that isn't necessarily that of the real-time events onscreen; that it puts apparent continuities out of sync with themselves, layers tempi, unfolds instants into rising arcs, drops slow unfoldings into shocking free fall.
In our impatient age, absence of continuity turns out to be no problem.
For the most part, though, the need for franchise continuity wins out, however outmoded the tropes of that franchise may now seem.
Like him, "Everyone Else" could use a serious trim, and some of the continuity is out of whack, as white skies switch to purest blue and back, but maybe that is deliberate.
Lately Russian airspace intrusions and propaganda attacks are a constant headache.Estonia's first dry run of digital continuity, carried out in September last year in conjunction with Microsoft, had several elements.
Over the course of its seven seasons, "Childrens Hospital" was relentlessly freewheeling and inventive, with an elaborate behind-the-scenes story, secret identities revealed, continuity tossed out the window, Winkler flying around on a jetpack — a sort of yes and-and-and-and, to infinity.
They must be checked with a voltmeter "in circuit" or with an ohm meter or continuity tester "out of circuit".
