Before Sunrise(1995) / Before Sunset(2004) Options

[Nidhi]

In the name of the Father (1993). I saw this old one on cable. It is a great movie based on a true story of how an irish family is wrongly implicated & imprisoned as irish terrorists. The biased, uncompromising and unrelenting approach of the British Police, shows them in poor light, as they were aware of the actual terrorists. The trials & tribulations that the innocents undergo in proving their innocence after 15 years is the story line. Great acting by Daniel Day Lewis.

Rumor of Angels(2000): A sentimental movie about the friendship between a boy & an old lady(Vanessa Redgrave) who helps him in getting over the tragedy of having lost his mother in an accident.

Just like Heaven(2005): A sweet romantic movie. The romance is between the ghost of a lady in coma & the new tenant in her apartment. It stars Reese Witherspoon.

We own the night(2007): Cops & Drug lords stuff starring Mark Wahlburg & Joaquim Phoenix. It is the routine hollywood stuff.

I am still to see the following 2007 movies: 'Eastern Promises', 'Gone Baby Gone', 'The Assassination of Jesse James', No Country for Old men', 'He was a Quiet Man', 'In the Valley of Elah', 'Into the Wild', 'Michael Clayton' & 'Atonement'. I have all these on divx format. The convenience of having a standalone dvd player that plays divx too is that one can record 6 english movies of good quality on a single dvd disc & watch them at leisure.

This post has been edited by Nidhi: Jun 30 2008, 08:14 AM

[mmuk2004]

Before Sunrise (1995) Richard Linklater

Was badgered by Shaibaal into watching this one... and am I am grateful he did. Okay if Shaibaal gets around to reading this one, he will stop recommending films to me... no badgering involved...just my exaggeration technique...

A lovely film, it is about two young twenty-somethings, who meet on a Eurorail, he is American and she is French and they start talking and decide to get down together in Vienna and spend the day together, as he has to fly back to the US, the next morning. Just the two of them talking about various things, parents, romances, choices and dreams. Does sound rather heavy-handed when you put it this way, but it is the way the film is handled, that is quite fascinating as it gives you a glimpse into the minds of this generation, not in a smart or a pretentious way, but just simply as they pass the day together. Don't really like American romances particularly about young people, this one is quite different.