Before Midnight (USA: Richard Linklater, 2013)

Before Midnight (USA: Richard Linklater, 2013: 109 mins)

Kogonada. "The long conversation – Richard Linklater on cinema and time." Sight and Sound (November 4, 2013)

Like Stories of Old. "The Before Trilogy: Performing a Real Relationship." (Posted on Youtube: November 10, 2017) [I would easily include this trilogy in my best of cinema. The first time I saw Before Sunrise I was floored because I had never seen a film that captured the magic, mystery and mood of unplanned romance (I won't ruin the end for those that haven't seen it) in such a realistic way. The second and third film, made 9 years later each time, continues to defy the Hollywood/Hallmark co-optation of our romantic ideas. The collaboration of Richard Linklater (director/writer), Kim Krizan (co-writer), Ethan Hawke (actor/collaborator), and Julie Delpy (actor/collaborator), is a major achievement in collaborative filmmaking and escapes the stunt feel of the later unrelated Linklater film Boyhood. I've been dreaming of my film class next semester and how I could explore B. Ruby Rich's call to move past Hollywood's/America's singular focus on individualistic experience and maybe this could be the start from a masterpiece on an evolving dyad experience that avoids privileging one perspective and moving outward to more fully collective depictions. "A video essay exploring how Richard Linklater created one of the most unique portrayals of a real relationship in his Before Trilogy; consisting of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight."]

Lim, Dennis. "Nine More Years On, and Still Talking: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Discuss Before Midnight." The New York Times (May 5, 2013)

MacDowell, James. "Before Sunrise after Before Midnight: genre and gender in the Before series." Alternate Takes (September 17, 2013)