'Before nightfall': love overlooking the sea
** BOYHOOD - JOURNEY TO DEEP AMERICA**
It is the last film that he has released and that, for the first time in the history of cinema, has been shot for twelve consecutive years (from the age of 7 to 18 of the protagonist). _Boyhood (Moments of a life) _ shows the growth of two brothers who move throughout Texas, passing through Austin, Houston and San Marcos . A special mention for adventurous travelers is the ** Pedernales Falls State Park **, an immense natural park where the protagonist bathes with his father in the middle of nature. And another plan made in the USA is to attend a baseball game, for example the Milwaukee Brewers vs. Houston Astros that appears in the film.
boyhood
** UP TO SPEED - ODE TO TOURIST ROUTES**
It's interesting TV series Directed by Linklater, it covers, in six episodes, different North American destinations. The plot couldn't be better: accompany the eccentric tour guide Timothy Speed Levitch on a visit to some monuments ignored by history . This includes San Francisco shoe gardens (where hundreds of shoes serve as plant pots), Chicago's working-class neighborhoods, the highway that separates Kansas from Missouri , Thomas Jefferson's footprint in Virginia or the luckiest subway grid in New York. Speed also analyzes other topics such as the tourist importance of going to the bathroom . To take into account other shorts starring Levitch and directed by Linklater in the streets of New York: Live from Shiva's Dance Floor.
'Up to speed': the visit of some monuments ignored by history
** BEFORE DAWN ** - DISCOVER LOVE IN VIENNA
Something special has the Austrian capital, which serves as a backdrop for travelers Jesse and Céline, who meet on a train from Budapest to Vienna. Among the corners they visit is the ** café Sperl ** and the Kleines Café, the green bridge of Zollamtssteg , The disc store Teuchtler Schallplattenhandlung , the Friedhof der Namenlosen Cemetery ( a very interesting place where unknown people were buried in the 19th century ) and the gothic church Maria Am Gestade. The first kiss of the protagonists is in the vienna ferris wheel Prater Park, and his first romp is in the park of the Palais Schwarzenberg. The idea for the film came from a similar encounter Linklater had with a girl in Philadelphia, and she that she died before the movie was released.
Romance Alert: 'Before Dawn'
** BEFORE SUNSET ** - REUNION IN PARIS
Nine years after the first film, Céline and Jesse meet again . It all starts in one of the essentials of the French capital: the shakespeare and company . This famous English bookstore that organizes poetry and literature sessions becomes the starting point for strolling through the Latin Quarter, until the protagonists sit down in Le Pure Cafe at Popincourt. Then they walk through another must-see in Paris: the Promenade I planted on Daumesnil Avenue , a curious construction above the road full of flowers and vegetation. To make it a bit more touristy, they also go to the Seine and get on one of the boats that runs through the center . The subliminal message? That the most romantic Paris is the one that goes from the Latin Quarter to Bercy. No trace of the Eiffel Tower.
'Before sunset': Romantic Paris (and no trace of the Eiffel Tower)
** BEFORE NIGHTFALL ** - DISCUSSIONS IN GREECE
The trilogy closes in the idyllic Peloponnese , neither more nor less than in the house of Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor in Kardamyli. When they are alone, the protagonists go through the ruins of Messini , they talk with the castle of Methoni in the background, they stop at a Byzantine chapel in Platsa and walk through the city of Pylos . The hotel where they argue? is the luxurious Navarino Coast . nominated for various sustainability awards and a pioneer in this field in Europe. At night, they continue to reflect on their love relationship in the port of Kardamyli, overlooking the Gulf of Messinia in the Ionian Sea . The best place to reconcile.
Before nightfall
** WAKING LIFE ** - LUCID DREAMS BETWEEN TEXAS AND NEW YORK
This sensational film experiment is about lucid dreams , that is, those in which we are aware that we dream. This is the first movie digitally animated with the technique of rotoscoping , which paints the characters on top of the negative of the tape. The result is a journey in a more philosophical sense, which travel unknown destinations that seem familiar . Here we also find Jesse and Céline talking in bed, in a scene between the first and second films of the trilogy. Years later, Linklater shot A Scanner Darkly with the same technique. This time imagining the future of his native Texas.
'Waking life': lucid dreams between Texas and New York
** BERNIE ** - THE GOOD AND THE BAD OF TEXAS
paired houses, paperboys on bikes and old people on the porch . This is the setting for Bernie, a fun documentary that tells the story of a funeral director accused of murder. Based on a true story , the camera takes us to cities like Austin, Georgetown, Carthage, Smithville and Bastrop , portraying the psychology of the people of Texas. And it is that this state is the one that is most present in the work of Linklater, who has made films about baseball ( ** Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach ** ), the effects of fast food on health ( Fast Food Nation ), the daily life of young Texans ( move of 76 ) or daily life in Austin ( ** Slacker ** ) .
'Bernie' is based on a true story
** ME AND ORSON WELLES ** - THE 1930S ON THE ISLE OF MAN
Although it seems that Linklater always films in the present, he also has some films set in the past. Specific in 1930s New York , with Orson Welles at his best and demanding his team of actors to the point of madness. This is the story of Me and Orson Welles, which recounts Julius Caesar's theatrical preparation at the Mercury Theatre, one of the most famous Broadway plays of the time. The film was also shot in London , specifically in Crystal Palace Park, the Isle of Man, and in the village of Rickmansworth. The only British touch in his filmography.
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'Me and Orson Welles', the only British touch in his filmography