Best dialogue-driven film you've seen?

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What Happened Was...
Melvin Goes to Dinner
Annie Hall

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Tape. And Baywatch. Although I am not sure about the former.

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For me personally,Mike Leigh's Naked takes the cake in this particular sub genre

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All is lost?

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A. 12 Angry Men
B. Carnage
C. Before Trilogy (Before Sunset/Sunrise/Midnight)

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Usually movies which were adapted from plays are dialogue driven. Closer might be a good example. Also courtroom dramas like Witness for the Prosecution are mostly built on dialogue.

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coffee wrote:Usually movies which were adapted from plays are dialogue driven. Closer might be a good example.


I just read through 4 pages of varied opinions to find the final one making the exact point and suggestion I intended making! :lol:

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I've mentioned this elsewhere, but I can't watch it enough, so it follows that I can't push it enough. I'm of course talking about Destination Wedding, with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder who are so good, they're the only ones who do any audible talking. It could be in the dark comedy category as well.

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some were already mentioned
Waking Life
The Social Network.
When Nietzsche wept
A Dangerous Method
The Boss of it all
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Before Midnight

Le rayon vert [Rohmer]
A Summer's Tale [Rohmer]
Pauline at the Beach [Rohmer]

My Dinner with Andre
Sunset Limited
Proof
Reality XL
Café (2011)
I Heart Huckabees
Talk Radio
The Nines
Autumn Sonata [Bergman]
The Devil's Eye [Bergman]
The Virgin Spring [Bergman]
The Rite [Bergman]
From the Life of the Marionettes [Bergman]
The Seventh Seal [Bergman]
Through a Glass Darkly [Bergman]

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JimiAntiloop wrote:some were already mentioned
Waking Life
The Social Network.
When Nietzsche wept
A Dangerous Method
The Boss of it all
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Before Midnight

Le rayon vert [Rohmer]
A Summer's Tale [Rohmer]
Pauline at the Beach [Rohmer]

My Dinner with Andre
Sunset Limited
Proof
Reality XL
Café (2011)
I Heart Huckabees
Talk Radio
The Nines
Autumn Sonata [Bergman]
The Devil's Eye [Bergman]
The Virgin Spring [Bergman]
The Rite [Bergman]
From the Life of the Marionettes [Bergman]
The Seventh Seal [Bergman]
Through a Glass Darkly [Bergman]



I've read that the dialogue in Le Rayon Vert was mostly (if not almost entirely) improvised*. Perhaps that's why, but it all seems just so efficiently perfect.

*although maybe the lead contested this. it's confusing.

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