Introduction -- German expressionist film and Heidegger's fourfold -- French moderne, modernist noir, and moderns as masters of reinvention -- The domestic front: Hollywood and postwar cinema -- Swinging time in London -- Positioning women in time and space -- Modernist utopia: the spirit of the future -- Not thinking but questioning: Terence Malick's Expressions of world and ground -- Speeding into the unfixed future in Tokyo -- Fear and trembling: a study of why movies make us afraid.