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Los Angeles Times
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Oscars flashback: Raising a glass to ‘Sideways'
By definition, the Academy Award for adapted screenplay will go to work previously created in another form. But at the 77th Oscars, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, the source material for the five nominees was particularly wide-ranging: a novel ('Sideways'); a short-story collection ('Million Dollar Baby'); a memoir and a biography ('The Motorcycle Diaries'); a play ('Finding Neverland'); and characters created for a 9-year-old prequel film ('Before Sunset'). A certain amount of less adept adaptation went into the introduction of the nominees in the category too. Adam Sandler strode onstage to read the contenders list, with Catherine Zeta-Jones being announced as planned to help him along. But no Zeta-Jones was on hand, intentionally. That allowed host Chris Rock to join his fellow 'Saturday Night Live' alum and pretend to be Zeta-Jones — the object of Sandler's scripted leering. But at last, it was time for Sandler — once Rock left the stage — to read out the nominees, handing the award to first-time winners Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Payne's 'Sideways,' a film about two friends going on a bender in the Santa Ynez Valley ahead of one of them tying the knot. As Payne and Taylor noted in their acceptance speech, the win came after 15 years of writing together, scripting such films as 'About Schmidt' and 'Citizen Ruth.' Clearly, they knew each other well enough to finish one another's sentences, as they did in their shared time onstage. After noting together that they've had a great pair of agents, Taylor added, 'And more recently, a great pair of wives: The stunning and talented Tamara Jenkins…' '[And the] equally stunning and talented Sandra Oh,' added Payne, who was married to the 'Sideways' actor from 2003-06; Taylor has been married to director-actress Jenkins since 2002. 'My mother taught me to write,' Taylor added, getting a bit choked up, 'and she died before she could see any of this. So this is for you, Mom.' Taylor and Payne were also nominated together in 2000 for adapting 'Election' and for producing 'The Descendants' (with Jim Burke) in 2012. Payne would win again in 2012 for adapting 'The Descendants' with Nat Faxon and Jim Rash; Taylor has no other wins. The winners of 'Sideways' weren't the only writing collective nominated; in an unusual move, writer-director Richard Linklater and co-writer Kim Krizan included stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in their credit list for 'Before Sunset,' a sequel to Linklater's 1995 film (also co-written with Krizan and starring Delpy and Hawke), 'Before Sunrise.' But it also was understandable: Both films were essentially two-handers. In 2013, he'd give them credit again for the final film in the 'Before' trilogy, 'Before Midnight,' for which all three would be nominated again. (Krizan was then out of the picture.) This was Linklater's first Oscar nomination of an eventual six; Delpy's first nomination in any category of an eventual two; and Hawke's first writing nomination of an eventual two, though he also has two acting nominations. Meanwhile, Paul Haggis earned his first nomination of five total for 'Million Dollar Baby' (he'd go on to win two Oscars for 'Crash' the following year, for directing and best picture, the latter of which he shared with Cathy Schulman). His most recent nomination, from 2007, is for the original screenplay (with Iris Yamashita) of 'Letters From Iwo Jima.' Both 'Jima' and 'Baby' were directed by Clint Eastwood. And finally, David Magee earned his first of two nominations for 'Finding Neverland,' a look at part of the life of 'Peter Pan' author J.M. Barrie; and José Rivera earned his first and so far only nomination for 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' about the life of Che Guevara.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Before Sunrise review – Richard Linklater's brief encounter defies romantic convention
Not a romcom, not a romantic drama, but just … a romance, a brief encounter on a train without heartache, a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle that never seems cloying or absurd. Richard Linklater's film from 1995 is now re-released for its 30th anniversary, a stretch of time that gives us a chance to ponder the characters' time-travel musings about their future selves. The two sequels Before Sunset (in 2004) and Before Midnight (in 2013) famously reunited the leads and gave us an episodic study of their growing old as a couple welded together by that amazing moment in Vienna; it was an ambitious approach which Linklater brought to its fullest success with his time-lapse portrait Boyhood, which he was working on around the same period. The goateed and sweetly conceited twentysomething Jesse, played by Ethan Hawke, is on a train to Vienna when the smart and beautiful Céline, insouciantly played by Julie Delpy, sits down opposite him and they start talking. Everyone is reading books and even newspapers in 1995, not looking at phones, or posting Instagram selfies – so striking up flirtatious conversations is not quite as difficult, but still a gamble; you can feel Jesse's heart-thumping nerves as he suggests to Céline that she forget about her plans to go to Paris and instead get off the train with him to hang out in Vienna for 24 hours – with no money for a hotel, literally wandering around with him all night, never revealing their surnames. Of course, the comical or cynical or commonsense worldview can see a thousand ways in which this would probably or, rather, definitely go wrong. But it doesn't – and that itself doesn't seem wrong. They never have a serious row and then make up, there are no serious personal revelations which emerge, nothing that catches either of them in a lie which then demands a cathartic apology and moment of self-knowledge. Before Sunset refuses to conform to screenplay-seminar rules. And they have a long scene up in Vienna's Riesenrad ferris wheel without at any time mentioning The Third Man. In fact they just talk … and it isn't insufferable. I can hardly think of a single film which sports so elegantly with the idea of unresolved sexual tension over such an extended stretch of time. When they are in the record shop listening booth (another amazing period touch), smiling, trying not to catch each other's glance, you can see the thought in the face of each. Do we kiss? Do we leave it till later? Would kissing now spoil everything? They actually kiss up in the ferris wheel, and then carry on walking and talking down at ground level, with the unresolved sexual tension taken up a notch. Sex al fresco would be a challenge. Again, you can each see each having the same thought: is what we have right now actually better than sex? It's a pleasure to notice again, or for the first time, all the incidental details. Jesse has a sister, for example, a character destined to be Céline's sister-in-law. Maybe Linklater was considering a film about her. It is the lightness of this film which is still charming; Jesse and Céline are free from everything, free from work worries or family cares, but they are also free from the gravity of cause-and-effect, the world of consequences and responsibilities. They bounce and float around the streets of Vienna like astronauts of love. Before Sunrise is in UK cinemas from 31 January.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ethan Hawke Remembers 'Before Sunrise''s World Premiere with Julie Delpy 30 Years Ago: 'Great Night'
Ethan Hawke is throwing it back to Before Sunrise! Hawke, 54, shared three images of him, filmmaker Richard Linklater and actress Julie Delpy to Instagram on Monday, Jan. 27 as he recalled in a caption that Before Sunrise premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 30 years ago in 1995. Hawke's post featured an image of him, Delpy, now 55, and Linklater, now 64, on the movie's set and at its world premiere in Utah. "This time 30 years ago our movie Before Sunrise debuted at Sundance. Redford himself introduced it," Hawke wrote in caption, referencing actor and Sundance founder Robert Redford. "Great night." Before Sunrise marked Linklater's fourth film as a director. The movie follows American 20-something Jesse (Hawke) and a young French woman named Céline (Delpy), who meet on a train in Europe and impulsively decide to spend one night together roaming Vienna before Jesse flies back to the United States. Related: Ethan Hawke Hated Being the Gen X Poster Boy After Reality Bites Came Out: 'Now I Love It' (Exclusive) Many Instagram users left comments on Hawke's post celebrating the film's 30th anniversary by noting their love for Before Sunrise, including Topher Grace. "Best trilogy of all time," Grace, 46, wrote in a comment, referencing Before Sunrise's two sequels, 2004's Before Sunset and 2013's Before Midnight. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The Before trilogy meets Hawke and Delpy's characters several years apart in each installment. In Before Sunset, Jesse and Céline encounter one another again by chance in Paris, where they spend an afternoon together and muse on their decision not to reconnect after their original meeting in Vienna. Before Midnight meets Jesse and Céline after they have been in a relationship and started a family together as they wrangle with the realities of a long-term partnership and their own career paths. Related: Julie Delpy Says She Was Paid 'About a 10th' of Costar Ethan Hawke's Fee in 'Before Sunrise' Delpy, Hawke and Linklater have considered continuing the romance series beyond Before Midnight, but Delpy most recently stated in 2021 that the group had agreed they did not have a pitch for a fourth installment that they were creatively satisfied with. 'What happened was that we — all three of us — agreed that we couldn't come up with something good for a fourth one. It's that simple. We didn't fight. We're not on bad terms. Everyone's happy… It's so much drama for nothing," she told Variety at that time, after reports suggested Delpy had declined to participate in a fourth Before movie. "We just didn't come up with a good idea.' While Delpy clarified that she, Hawke and Linklater had discussed ideas for a new installment, she described the conversations as "basically an idea that none of us liked. That was the end of it. It was half of a bad idea that went around and we were like, 'Let's not do it.' ' Read the original article on People
