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At first glance, Richard Linklater's romantic drama Before Midnight, appears to be about an older man and woman reaching their 40s together. But upon viewing, it's really an examination of a couple as they dissect and figure out their continually budding relationship. It's a beautiful collaboration between the filmmaker and two actors who poured their hearts into...
Richard Linklater has been on the independent film scene for decades, notable for such 90's highlights as Slacker and Dazed and Confused. But as great as those films are, his trilogy of Before movies is his career triumph. It's started with Before Sunrise, which followed what happened one night between an American traveler (Ethan Hawke) and a...
18 years after the incredible first film (Before Sunrise) and nine years after the somehow even-better sequel (Before Sunset), director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have returned with Before Midnight, creating a rather unlikely trilogy (in an age when most...
South by Southwest's annual film festival and concert series has - like its fall cousin Fantastic Fest - become one of the coolest festivals around. Where Sundance may launch the biggest independent films of the years, and places like Cannes and Toronto highlights the best in foreign films, and preview the film's big Oscar pictures, SXSW have carved a spot out as the one where you're going to...
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival is still in full swing. Studios are scooping up indies left and right, and we have the details on who's bought what thus far. Also, we have the first clip of jOBS, starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, and the first trailer for the eco-terrorist thriller The East, starring Brit Marling and Ellen Page. All that and more...
One of the critical successes of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival has been Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, the third film in what is now a trilogy following Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. And today the film just scored another jackpot—it’s been purchased by Sony Pictures Classics.
It seems Ethan Hawke is an awesome liar – who knew? Just last week reports were in that work had begun on filming Before Midnight, a sequel to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and from the impression Hawke gave, the shooting was very much in the preliminary stages. Now word is out that the film wrapped last night.
