Watch a 1995 Sundance Interview With 'Before Sunrise' Stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy

Richard Linklater has long been a Sundance favorite, with both his 1991 debut feature, Slacker, and his 2014 Oscar contender, Boyhood, premiering at the prestigious indie film festival. Twenty years ago, his chatty lovers Jesse and Celine enjoyed their first conversation in Park City, Utah, as well, when Linklater’s Before Sunrise was selected as the Opening Night film for Sundance’s 1995 edition. In this vintage video, Entertainment Tonight transports viewers back to the year of backpack purses, While You Were Sleeping and Tupac’s Me Against the World, using archival interviews with the distractingly young-looking stars of the film, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from the snowy slopes of Park City.

Before Sunrise, about a young man and woman who meet on a train and spend a romantic night in Vienna, marked both actors’ first film with Linklater, and they each described the experience as revelatory. “I think the movie’s really an original,” remarked Hawke. “It seems like most movies I go to, I feel like I’ve seen them before, I don’t think anybody’s seen this movie before.” Delpy, meanwhile, emphasized the collaborative nature of their working relationship, saying, “We really worked together and really collaborated as much as we could coming up with things.” That’s an approach they continued to employ on the two sequels to Before Sunrise, 2004’s Before Sunset and 2013’s Before Midnight, the latter of which also premiered at Sundance. Linklater himself doesn’t appear in the video, but given his track record with the festival, he’ll almost certainly remain a regular presence in Park City for the next 20 years.