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Before Sunrise (1995)
Directed by Richard Linklater
influenced Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Themes Plot
There�s probably a little too much chasing down the drunk friend, despite how funny Graynor is, and you wish there was a little less grumbling and more of the Before Sunrise/Sunset feel that we get in the final half hour which is quite special.
Based on a popular novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan and echoing everything from "American Graffiti" to "Before Sunrise," this is a movie that doesn't know how to say "no."
That the title protagonists are still in high school is beside the point; theirs is a romance, like the ones in 1995's "Before Sunrise" and 1999's " Trick ," that nails exactly what it is like to fall in love, no matter age, gender, race or sexual preference.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is shaped like a kinder, gentler After Hours with a little of the aforementioned Before Sunrise thrown in for good measure.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist has been described as the Facebook generation’s Before Sunrise, and that’s certainly half the reason I love it dearly.
…meets Before Sunrise .
Any movie that ostensibly pays tribute to this has got to do better than a screenplay that amounts to little beyond a series of predictable teen picture cliches, with a touch of a "High Fidelity" rip-off, a pinch of "School of Rock" and some completely inconsistent character development thrown in.
This sort of feel-good/formulaic progress narrative already seemed quaint by the time that “Wayne’s World” director Penelope Spheeris revived the He-Man Woman Hater’s Club for her Amblin-produced “Little Rascals” revival.
The film’s heavy metal angle is somewhat novel—but it certainly owes a lot to Wayne’s World, Airheads and, of course, School of Rock.
When it comes to teen comedies doing this right, I think of things like Superbad , Booksmart , or The Edge of Seventeen —to name just a few recent titles that have played with the expected themes, rhythms, and beats of the genre to say something both emotionally true, and funny.
(The evidence, from The 400 Blows to Raising Victor Vargas, tends to bear this out.)
The Art of Getting By (2011)
Directed by Gavin Wiesen
influenced by Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Themes
Back in 2008, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist offered young love, angst and a nice New York tourism plug for the Gossip Girl crowd that is now a template for the youth of the generation, while somehow making older folks pine for John Hughes all the more.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Directed by Lorene Scafaria
influenced by Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Music
Scafaria gives both of the leads enough depth that neither one of them feel like a concept or narrative placeholder (and this is a real danger her: Penny has all the makings of a perfunctory Manic Pixie Dream Girl, and Dodge is, well, named Dodge, which tells us far too much about the metaphorical usage he's put to in the course of the movie), and there's an awareness of how human beings exist in relationship to one another that's not even remotely present in her shallow screenplay for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist .
Writer Lorene Scafaria’s (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) directorial debut is a bold and clever romantic comedy.
Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (the similarly fey “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist’’) is over her head in her feature directing debut, unable to establish a consistent tone in a movie that flirts with black comedy, satire, romantic comedy and touchy-feely earnestness without really delivering any of them.
Now, making her directorial debut, screenwriter Lorene Scafaria steps in to apply a romantic comedy twist, applying the same love for music which drew together the two lovers of " Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist ."
There’s a one-two punch of riskiness in Lorene Scafaria’s (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist) latest comedy, not only for its dark source of humour, but the unconventional pairing of comic force majeure Steve Carrel and the relatively untested source of laughs, Keira Knightley.
Talented writer/director Lorene Scafaria (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” “The Meddler,” “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”) has made an honest but warmly sympathetic look at the real-life story of small-time crooks who decided to design their own form of retributive justice and also steal some money.
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria, who scripted “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” and “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World,” sees this “true” story in epic parable terms.
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria previously wrote a movie I liked ( Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist ) and directed one that I really didn’t ( Seeking a Friend for the End of the World ), and she observes the camaraderie in the strippers’ dressing room quite astutely, casting pop music stars Cardi B (who stripped in real life) and Lizzo (repping the plus-size women onstage).
Scafaria wrote one of the best teen comedies of the decade (“Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist”) and wrote and directed the underrated “Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World.”
Widow Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett, Hardcore Henry ) and her friend Teddy Q (Luke Grimes, Freeheld ) bring in support for the latter option, courtesy of warrant officer Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington, The Equalizer ).
Their romance is Netflix-cute, in a To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before kind of way, but the undercooked characterization of Emily gives short shrift to female metalheads, most of whom didn’t need to fall for a boy to understand the power of Judas Priest.