#the big clock

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The Big Clock (1948) dir. John Farrow

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Voting ended onNov 16, 2025

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NOIR CITY takes a bite out of The Big Apple

At long last, NOIR CITY will make its debut in New York City, July 10—19, at the Paris Theater. FNF founder Eddie Muller will host the 10-day festival showcasing 32 feature films, with special guest introductions, short films, and an Opening Night musical performance by this year’s MS. NOIR CITY, Elizabeth Bougerol. The festival will be structured in two parts.

From July 10—16, NOIR CITY: New York will present this year’s NOIR CITY theme, “Face the Music!”, a 16-film program of crime and mystery films featuring . . . musicians! From early examples of Hollywood noir like Blues in the Night (1941) to jazz-fueled sixties’ gems like All Night Long (1962) and A Man Called Adam (1966), the movies feature genuine musical legends like Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr., Hoagy Carmichael, and Doris Day performing alongside film noir favorites including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, Ann Sheridan, and Rita Hayworth.

Additionally, NOIR CITY: New York will present “Dead End Streets,” a collection of some of the genre’s all-time favorites, which will include the East Coast premieres of new 4K restorations of Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947) starring Robert Mitchum and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) featuring a memorably unsettling Peter Lorre. Included as part of “Dead End Streets” are the films Double Indemnity, In a Lonely Place, and Ace in the Hole, as well as New York-centric titles such as Killer’s Kiss, The Big Clock, Guilty Bystander, and many more! "Dead End Streets" times and dates vary.

For tickets and the full festival schedule, visit the Paris Theater’s website.

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John Farrow - The Big Clock (1948)

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Bundeslihaha: Mortivacation

a Hamburger SV birthday special

When his stadium clock stands still after 54 years of non-stop ticking, Hamburger Sport-Verein goes on a drunken vacation 600 km away from his harbor town in search for something...

Happy 138th birthday, Doppelaufsteiger! Enjoy this gift!

AO3 link will be in the reblog, as ever. Alternate version with human names under the cut. (Spoiler alert: They're all silly.)

Alternate Version:

They're some of my favorite characters to draw because I love OCs with strong noses.

Freiburg's name was originally "Zorro Schwarzwald" but after a long internal debate, I think she would take refuge in audacity. xD

Real talk, folks, I can't pronounce "Hilmar Perlmann" in a satisfactory speed because I roll my "R"s. Ouch. Defeated by my own accent.

Also, I never knew I needed HSV in a dress, but after I drew him that way, I think I want more. 😳

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Original cover:

I chose this solely because they're both associated with clocks (Freiburg is a clockmaker and her city is famous for cuckoo clock craftsmanship, Hamburg has his stadium clock that counted every year he was in the Bundesliga uninterrupted, down to the second).

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The Big Clock (John Farrow, 1948)

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I saw in your other post "Tsukasa looking at Amane in chapter 109" and I was curious, do you happen to have any theory about why Tsukasa was interested in breaking the clock? Or do you have any theory as to why Hanako-kun messed with it so diligently.P. S: I hope you had a good Christmas 🎅

Hi! Firstly, the post you're speaking about was made by the lovely @ tsutsumi-kurose! I highly recommend checking their blog out for more keen analysis on Hanako-kun.

Anyway, to answer your question...let's gather what we know about the Big Clock.

The Big Clock is the school's time itself. Destroying it caused time to stop completely. When Nene encountered Tsukasa via a time rift during the festival, he told her that you could use the clock to travel through time.

This time manipulation stuff appears to be directly correlated to the school. It doesn't seem to affect stuff outside of it, similar to how the Bookstacks only records a person's life during the time they will spend/have spent at Kamome Academy.

That said, we can't know for sure if Amane knew that, so maybe he tried to harness the clock's time powers for something he could never use them for anyway? Not like it matters, since Tsukasa confirmed Amane never managed to manipulate the clock...but I don't know. To have him work so diligently for something that would have never worked? It feels somewhat silly. So I prefer to believe he had a clear, concrete, and most importantly achievable goal in mind.

Basically, what I'm getting at is I don't think Amane was either trying to time travel to get back to the Tanabata festival he spent with Nene-oneesan or to the time Tsukasa sacrificed himself during their 4th birthday. I also have trouble believing he would go through so much trouble on the off chance that his Nene-oneesan happened to attend Kamome Academy at some point, and it also just seems terribly... corny to me? I really hope it isn't the case, it's just kind of sad and embarrassing of him to skip out on his school play in favor of chasing after some girl he met 4 years ago. I'm clearly too jaded for a romance manga why am I even here

But I do have trouble imagining any other reason for Amane to attempt to time travel that is privy to us! It's either Nene or something we don't know yet. Or something concerning Nene that we don't know yet. Either way, Hanako has clearly remembered whatever it was and wants to keep it a secret--which could mean basically anything because he loves keeping things to himself.

(pictured above: the face of a liar)

To answer your other question, I genuinely think that Tsukasa just wanted to destroy the clock because of his innate sense of curiosity. Remember, this is the guy that dissected a fish for no reason other than a desire to learn how it talked. He is a man of science, and sometimes science is blowing things up and looking at their insides. (I think he would enjoy Mythbusters in a modern AU.)

Tsukasa only went through with destroying the clock now because it was the only way to enter the Clock Keepers' boundary. This is the long and short of it and I will remain firm in this opinion until AidaIro confirm otherwise. *clacks gavel*

Anyway, thank you for the ask! I hope you had a nice Christmas too. :]