Restoration in Order
This potentially exquisite film was taken out of director Vincente Minnelli's hands and all but destroyed by the distributor. Bad prints, sound, color processing, amateurish tenth-unit exterior additions, overall butchery...you name it. Minnelli disowned the film, his long-dreamed-of collaboration with his daughter, Liza.
If I had a magic wand, I'd wish for Liza to whip up a coalition of concerned parties such as Martin Scorcese and Peter Bogdanovich to buy up the rights to A Matter of Time, magically obtain funding and the film's original elements, and reassemble the film to some semblance of Vincente Minnelli's original vision.
In time, this film will matter very much as one of the small handful of worthy visual records of one of its centurie's great performers.