I heard about 2 new movies coming out which take a non-traditional approach to time and, in the 2nd case, Past Lives.
In a review posted on Daily Beast for the film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, writer Esther Zuckerman notes:
…this time around is all about time travel. The eponymous “dial of destiny” is the “Antikythera,” an invention created by Archimedes that can supposedly create fissures in time.
Interesting that time travel is featured in a film that may be most known for de-aging actor Harrison Ford in what may be his last performance as “Indy.”
Then there’s a film just been announced, the “psychological thriller Past Lives, from director Simeon Halligan”:
Written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich (Hounded, The Banishing), the pic follows Jason Frey (Emile Hirsch), an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira (Antonia Thomas). Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath's killer tendencies.
For the record, no one I’ve ever guided has ever “unwittingly” reawakened any of their past lives psychopathic tendencies.
And this category in the 2023 BAFTA* awards caught my attention:
Reality and Constructed Factual
*British Academy of Film and Television Arts