Timecode

Director Mike Figgis helmed this ground-breaking experimental feature, filmed with four synchronized digital video cameras in four separate locations. The story, outlined in advance but otherwise improvised, was enacted in a single continuous take, like a stage play, with the unedited images from all four locations presented on the screen at once. Figgis and his crew chose the best single run-through, and the result is the film's final release version. The story focuses on four main characters around the casting sessions for a film called Bitch of Louisiana to be directed by Lester Moore ( Richard Edson ): Alex Green ( Stellan Skarsgard ), the studio executive overseeing Moore's project; his wife Emma ( Saffron Burrows ); gangster Lauren Hathaway ( Jeanne Tripplehorn ); and her unfaithful lover Rose ( Salma Hayek ). These characters' paths cross as murder, infidelity, and dirty dealings are interrupted by an earthquake and its aftershocks. Time Code 2000 also features Kyle MacLachlan , Holly Hunter , Julian Sands , Steven Weber , Danny Huston , Viveka Davis , and Laurie Metcalf . — Mark Deming