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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, a Valentine’s treat. Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise.

An arguing couple on a train unexpectedly bring two much younger people into contact; Jessie is a seemingly cynical American who has found himself bumming around Europe while waiting for a flight home while Celine is a student returning to Paris. On a whim, the two young people decide to spend one magical night together, knowing that it may well be the only time that they ever spend together.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 204th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 27th January 2019.
• Essentially a Valentine’s Day Special, but one that reflects the original suggestion of a more conversational podcast between Darren and Andrew; as a result, this may be even more discursive than usual. But, hey, that kinda fits with Before Sunrise, right?
• Before Sunrise at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve discusses the romance and appeal of Before Sunrise, April 2015.
• Ryan Gilbey at The Guardian ranks Before Sunrise and Before Sunset as the third best romantic films of all-time, October 2010.
• Victor Beigelman at The A.V. Club on Haddaway’s “What Is Love”, December 2015.
• Martine Powers at The Washington Post on sexual harrassment on public transport, October 2017.
• Brian Resnick at Vox on how machine learning can be biased, January 2019.
• Maya Oppenheim at The Independent on Amazon’s sexist recruitement AI, October 2018.
• Hannah Devlin at The Guardian on how mankind programme their biases into computers, April 2017.
• Rachel Hosie at The Independent on millennial dating, January 2017.
• Keith Phipps at The Ringer on Ethan Hawke as a generational icon and an embodiment of the nineties, August 2018.
• Ethan Hawke talks to Den of Geek about whether he sees more Before films in his future, March 2018.
• Richard Linklater and Julie Delpy discuss the Before series, as documented at Evening Class, May 2013.
• John Patterson at The Guardian on Richard Linklater’s status as an indie cinema icon, October 2016.
• The Playlist offers a retrospective of the work of Richard Linklater, July 2014.
• Richard Linklater talks to The Varsity about independent cinema in America, April 2016.
• Richard Linklater talks to The Chicago Tribune about the origins of Before Sunrise, May 2013.
• Richard Linklater discusses the true story that inspired Before Sunrise in conversation with The Morning Call, May 1997.
• Tim Teeman at The Times on the inspiration for the Before trilogy, April 2013.
• Richard Linklater discusses whether Before Sunrise could work as a film in the twenty-first century with The New York Times, September 2004.
• Paul O’Callaghan at The British Film Institute offers an introduction to mumblecore, February 2016.
• The Guardian reports on Austria’s efforts to resist the looming European smoking ban, December 2017.
• Pernille Rudlin at Japan Intercultural on the poor customer service in Europe, April 2010.
• Rosa Inocencio Smith at The Atlantic on being told to “smile” by the men around her, October 2016.
• Jennifer Hansler at CNN on how women politicians are frequently told to “smile”, January 2018.
• youdiscover.eu, offering interrail tickets to European young adults.
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