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The 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset' Films Are Now Officially a Trilogy

And more film stuff from the Grolsch Film Works blog.

Earlier this year, VICE Films and Grolsch Film Works teamed up with the directors Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski to make a three-part film called The Fourth Dimension. Now, Grolsch Film Works have a new website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that.

AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL DANO AND THE 'RUBY SPARKS' TEAM

Husband-and-wife directing duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of Little Miss Sunshine fame are back with Ruby Sparks, a high-concept dramedy that stars Paul Dano as a neurotic novelist who finds romance in the most unusual way, when the female character from his unpublished manuscript breaks through into the real world - and he realises he can write away all her character flaws. Ahead of the film’s release, we had the chance to sit down with the two couples behind Ruby Sparks: Dayton and Faris, and Dano and Zoe (granddaughter of Elia) Kazan, who not only stars as Ruby, but also wrote the film in the apartment she shares with her co-star.

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BEFORE MIDNIGHT IS NOW A FILM

OK, so it’s not as catchy as the first two but Before Midnight, the third and possibly last film following the story of Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), was completed this summer, nine years after Before Sunset, which itself was made nine years after Before Sunrise. Coincidence? Well, yeah, it's probably just a bit of good ol' serendipity.

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A LIST OF ECCENTRICS

Terry Zwigoff (of Ghostworld fame) directed this gem of a documentary (also produced by David Lynch: there’s quite the cult calibre on display here) about the legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb. We see Crumb – gloriously shabby in an ill-fitting suit and a battered fedora – obsessing about his sexual past and his fetishes for bottoms and high heels, talking in great depth about his family mental health problems, fussing over his record collection and drawing obsessively. A beautiful old jazz soundtrack reminds us of a central focus point in this film; what Crumb calls “the sense of calamitous loss” inherent in his favourite songs. The film itself is an ode to collectors, comic book freaks and excavators of history, reminding us that the world needs people like Crumb - badly. READ FULL STORY

Keep your peepers peeled for more Grolsch Film Works updates next week. Go to grolschfilmworks.com to see what’s happening right now.