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Before Sunrise
1995 · Film · 101 min
Part of Before... Collection
Directed by Richard Linklater
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
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Yeah, that's it exactly. Films aren't reality, although they can be a reflection of what we might think how reality should go. Af the end of the day, films are made to capture an audience, not to paint a perfect portrait of the real world.
Also, there are counterexamples to that person's claim, such as the film Before Sunrise, which is an excellent romance film that doesn't involve an arc where the characters are indifferent or dislike each other at first. The films Sideways and even Office Space defy that trope as well.
- Hair (and listened soundtrack hundreds of times)
- Coffee and Cigarettes
- Before Sunrise (and to less extent - Before Sunset)
- Pulp Fiction
- Clerks, Chasing Amy
- Leon Professional
- Motorcycle Diaries
These are not as interesting since I assume they're on everyone's list, but I must admit I'm rewatching all movies in the series, even those which are considered weak:
- Lotr, Godfather, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Matrix
> Can you think of one movie or TV show which models a realistically happy working adult marriage which isn't either sentimental and idealised, or doesn't end in drama, tragedy, and betrayal?
Before Sunrise trilogy comes to mind
> I would love to see it become a golden era of the niche matinee where smaller theaters can flourish that show older films, art films, foreign films etc.
You should love the reality we live in, then, because that's exactly what's been happening and it's in some sense part of the problem.
My spouse and I go to the theaters as often as we ever have, but it's very noticeable that the lion's share of the movies we now watch in theater are special showings of older movie classics or "cinema of country X" type festival events, which than often select from the last ten years or so. This has held for the past half-decade across two countries.
When we lived in Seoul, there was a few years when it was a popular couple date option to go to open air rooftop cinemas showing modern classics like "Her" or "Before Sunrise", or to go to the Silver Cinemas originally subsidized for seniors where you'd watch old Hollywood classics from the 40s to 60s (we managed to watch a 70mm projection of all the 4 hours of "Lawrence of Arabia" that way). Now in Berlin, there's a large selection of small cinemas showing random movies from all eras. Our favorite is situated in an old DVD store and specializes in a combo of movies and serving specialty whisky ... it's as hipster as it sounds. I think the last movies we went to see there were "First Blood" and "Persona" and "Leon", I guess.
And it's fun, but at the same time it's kind of sad your only two options are watching the latest Marvel flick or All Time Top 250 movies from the 1970s. That still means so much that movies used to be is gone. The second-tier smaller blockbusters you had in the 80s and 90s for example, non-franchise original IP, or the even the lesser known movies from decades past. If you're not on top of the food order, you're just gone.
I'm not too doom-y and gloom-y overall on the state of movies, there's still more interesting movies each year than I can keep up with if I aggregate all the possible venues. But the selection in cinemas is, well, very two-note.
The screenwriters union fought for and negotiated for the right to own the publishing for their screenplays. Many writers of notable films have been able to use these writes to publish their scripts in book form to supplement their personal income.
Here’s before sunrise at Barnes and Noble for $18 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/before-sunrise-and-before-sunset-richard-linklater/1111391185?ean=9781400096046
It’s also available for “free” at https://screenplays.io/script/before-sunrise
There’s the Before film trilogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_trilogy
Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013)
Anybody paying attention knows I disagree with Filippo about the actual cryptographic content here. In practice systems have different constraints. AES for example is pretty nice if you have hardware support. Some do and some don't. By offering AES as a choice you allow people who do have hardware support to prefer AES while those who don't can have say, ChaCha20. And so you end up needing such a registry.
So instead I will focus on how I agree with his choice of movies. Before Sunrise in particular is really under-appreciated.
Yeah. I avoid rating anything unless my feelings about the movie generally extend to the entire genre.
Like 'Shrek'? Enjoy recommendations for kids movies for the next 3 months.
Like 'Before Sunrise'? You're going to love The Tall Girl!
The trilogy Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Before Midnight is essentially two people walking and talking the whole duration.
EDIT: And now I see it's written and directed by the same guy as Slacker :)