Before Sunrise: Screenwriter Kim Krizan on what led up to the classic 1995 travel-romance movie

Episode 256 May 16, 2025 00:57:21
Before Sunrise: Screenwriter Kim Krizan on what led up to the classic 1995 travel-romance movie
Deviate
Before Sunrise: Screenwriter Kim Krizan on what led up to the classic 1995 travel-romance movie

May 16 2025 | 00:57:21

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Hosted By

Rolf Potts

Show Notes

"Time spent traveling on trains, just staring out the window: I don't think that's lost time. That's when we have our best ideas." –Kim Krizan

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kiki introduce their interview with Kim Krizan by talking about their own personal love of the movie Before Sunrise, and how they first experienced it (0:30); Kim talks about her early travel experiences in Czechoslovakia as a teenager, and in England in her twenties (14:30); how the low-information technological moment of travel in the 1990s doesn't exist anymore in the 2020s (23:30); how Kim became involved with helping Richard Linklater write Before Sunrise, and their creative process in working together (34:00); Kim's ongoing relationship to the movie, 30 years after it came out (44:00); and an "Easter egg" segment featuring Kiki reading Melissa Fite Johnson's poem "Before Sunrise on the VCR" (55:30).

Kim Krizan (@kimkrizan) is the Oscar-nominated cowriter of the Before Sunrise movies, and the author of Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin.

Kristen “Kiki” Bush is an actress, known for PaternoLiberal Arts, SuitsLaw & Order: SVU, and onstage performances at Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public, and Lincoln Center.

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The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber.

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