Maggers Wrote:I saw "Before Sunrise" long ago and watched "Before Sunset" this evening. What a lovely film! Just two people with a history talking for maybe an hour an a half, but how fantastic with genuine dialogue and superbly acted!
I'd love to be Julie Delpy when I grow up.
A really nice adult film, for people with hearts and minds and hope.
A couple of other small films you may enjoy are
Tape,
Waking Life, Perfect Strangers,
Oleanna and
American Splendor.
Tape stars Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman. All of the action takes place in one hotel room. Based on his performance in this film, I recommended Hawke as RJ but was soundly booed for doing so. I still stand by my selection. The movie was directed by Linklater, as was
Waking Life. WL is a very unique, animated picture full of ponderable material.
PS is perhaps the strangest love story I've seen and it is also an interesting journey of self-discovery for the female protagonist (whose name is eluding me at the moment). Sam Neill plays the male lead.
Oleanna is a harrowing look at a professor, brilliantly portrayed by William H. Macy, and one of his female students. The dialogue, written by David Mamet, is electric.
AS stars Paul Giammati, yet another RJ recommendation from me, as the real-life comic book writer Harvey Pikar. I thought it was the best performance of last year and the story is oddly inspirational.
Speaking of Giammati, has anyone seen
Sideways? Not the type of movie I generally rush to see on the bigscreen, but I am a fan of Alexander Payne.