Five Favorite...Linklater Films

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

1. Before Midnight
2. Before Sunset
3. Before Sunrise

Haven't liked any of his other movies I've seen.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[The Argonaut]

I'd got Sunset, Midnight, Sunrise. Throw Boyhood somewhere in the middle of those and Bernie at the bottom.

[epilogue]

Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
Bernie
Before Midnight
Tape

[nyquillyn]

Before Sunset
Dazed and Confused
Before Sunrise
Boyhood
Before Midnight

[LoathedVermin72]

Very surprised to see Before Midnight so low in these rankings.

[contamination]

No love for Suburbia?

[Dscans]

No love for Suburbia?

No love for Waking Life?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
Bernie
Before Midnight
Tape

Still haven't see Tape, it's on my short list of films to watch next.

Very surprised to see Before Midnight so low in these rankings.

It's a damn fine film, but there's a noticeable decline from the first two. One, it's sort of a bummer. Two, it's the only one not presented in "real time." And three, a bit of the dialogue feels a bit forced or maybe expository. It's a believable progression of Celine and Jesse's narrative, but it's the only one that feels, at times, like I'm watching a movie; the first two feel like I'm a voyeur into an actual connection between two real people.

Disagree completely. I think it's a huge improvement over the first two, and I thought most people agreed. To me, the first two feel lightweight by comparison; we now have a sense of history and development for these characters that makes their relationship much more compelling. While I really like Sunset, I don't think Linklater - with his totally prosaic style - was the right filmmaker for the first two films, which badly needed a more evocative visual atmosphere to work (see, for example, what Sofia Coppola did with Lost in Translation).