Green Flash

I cannot recommend this film highly enough. Beautifully shot, heartfelt, and often hilarious dialogue. I discovered Rohmer and this film through a screening Richard Linklater and the Austin Film Society hosted. Linklater introduced the film and he hosted a nice audience discussion afterwards (you can watch his introduction and the audience discussion here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTfV3tA054s)

Re: Green Flash

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Post by acqq » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

weisser wrote: post #5

There is a fantastic French film by Eric Rohmer called Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) where this phenomenon is a central element to the story. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Green_Ray_(film) I cannot recommend this film highly enough. Beautifully shot, heartfelt, and often hilarious dialogue. I discovered Rohmer and this film through a screening Richard Linklater and the Austin Film Society hosted. Linklater introduc…

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Ray

The Green Ray (French: Le Rayon vert) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne published in 1882 and named after the optical phenomenon of the same name.

Re: Green Flash

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Post by johnjackamend » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

Ahh such an evasive phenomenon! I live in Santa Barbara for 6 years now and watch the sunset close to every evening and have yet to witness this occur. I am definitely slowly losing my eyesight trying to see this though.

Re: Green Flash

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Post by jpdlla » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:31 PM UTC

A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to commission a boat in St. Augustine Florida and then sail it down to Puerto Rico together with three other guys which had done it before. I remember them talking about this green flash appearing in the horizon just as the sun went down. Our trip lasted almost 9 days and I spent every single day staring at the horizon to hopefully get a glance at it. On like the 5th day I did, definitely felt kinda "magical" to experience that. After the sun went down, the nights that we had a clear sky we'd also be treated pretty great. Being on 43 feet sailboat for 9 days with nothing in sight but water and the occasional pod of dolphins is something not many people will ever experience, feel very fortunate.

Re: Green Flash

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Post by 4ad » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

trav4225 wrote: post #4

on a similar note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dogs

That reminds me of a story when I was a child. Perhaps seven or eight years old.

I was playing with some kids outside, and saw a sundog. I didn't know what it was, and I was very curious about it. There were three suns in the sky! Something was very strange.

I tried to express my wonder to the other kinds. I tried to make them look at the sky and speculate about what's going on. Not only did they lack any interest for the phenomenon, they quickly started to mock me, and I became the crazy kid on the block.

I stopped playing with children for the rest of my childhood.

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Post by ASinclair » Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

johnjackamend wrote: post #7

Ahh such an evasive phenomenon! I live in Santa Barbara for 6 years now and watch the sunset close to every evening and have yet to witness this occur. I am definitely slowly losing my eyesight trying to see this though.

I lived in Pismo Beach for a year and for one week-long period I think I saw it every day. It's subtle and hard to differentiate from just going blind looking at the Sun.