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Richard Linklater |
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Director / Screenwriter /
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1960 - |
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Born July 30,
Houston, Texas |
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Key
Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Comedy Drama,
Ensemble Film,
Comedy, Coming-of-Age |
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Key
Collaborators: Sandra Adair (Editor), Anne Walker-McBay
(Producer), Lee Daniel (Cinematographer), Ethan Hawke
(Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Bruce Curtis (Production
Designer), Julie Delpy
(Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Matthew McConaughey (Leading
Character Player), Jack Black (Leading Player), Tommy Pallotta (Producer/Cinematographer),
Graham Reynolds (Composer) |
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Recommended: Slacker (1991), Dazed
and Confused (1993)*, School of Rock (2003)^, Before Sunset (2004)^, A
Scanner Darkly (2006), Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
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Worth a Look: The
Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001)^, Fast Food Nation (2006), Bernie
(2011) |
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Approach with Caution:
Woodshock (1985), Before Sunrise (1995), SubUrbia (1996), Bad News Bears (2005) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ]
[
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Wikipedia ] [
Official Website: Detour Film
Production ] [
A.V. Club Interview
(2006) ] [
1997
MovieMaker Interview ] [
Guardian Interview (2006)
] [
A.V. Club Interview (2012) ]
[
Linklater's Top 10
Criterion DVD's ] [
Filmmaker Interview (2006) ] [
Filmmaker Interview #2 ] [
Future Movies Interview (2010)
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Books:
[
Richard Linklater (Contemporary Film Directors)
] [
The Cinema of Richard Linklater
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"Inventive
director known for pointed yet playful explorations of the
post-postwar generation. After dropping out of college, he
worked on an oil rig and parked cars before filming Slackers,
a documentary-style look at the students, ex-students, and
hangers-on in the college town of Austin where he grew up." -
(The
MacMillan International Film Encyclopedia, 1994)
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"Texas-born director whose grinding studies of modern youth
angst have won him something of a cult following...It will be
interesting to see, as seems likely, Linklater's nihilism clash
with mainstream American cinema." -
David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"Richard
Linklater's films constitute an intelligent reconfiguration of
the 'youth movie' for a generation torn between self-conscious
cultural savvy and the time-honoured desire to connect...Linklater
homes in on a uniformly garrulous generation's fumbling stabs at
communication under the weight of solipsism and endless
theorising, the loose-looking sprawl of his films belied by
their emotional acuity and seemingly effortless narrative
economy." -
Kevin Harley (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)
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"I've
always been most interested in the politics of everyday life:
your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions
are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social
hierarchy." -
Richard Linklater |
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Please
note that the rating given for this director (see top-right) is based
only on the films we have seen (listed above). Films by this director
that we haven't seen include It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading
Books (1988) and Tape (2001). |
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7+ |
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"In
Linklater’s films, words are action. They express
personality, identity, conflict, attraction, rejection,
sympathy, alienation, affection, evasion, disclosure, and
concealment. Mostly, they represent attempts to make sense
of the world, to understand people and places and events,
and an individual’s relationship to all of those things.
Many of the riffs are funny, some are disturbing and some
are just nuts—Linklater shows an uncondescending interest in
the things that genuinely crazy people say, the possible
insights they enfold and the range of discomforts they
provoke."
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Jesse Fox Mayshark, Post-Pop Cinema:
The Search for Meaning in New American Film |
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Top 250 Directors |
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21st Century Top
50 |
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Ranked
31st on The Guardian's 2004 List of the World's 40 Best Directors |
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501
Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest
Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Robert Altman |
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Noah Baumbach |
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Sofia Coppola |
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Amy Heckerling |
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Allan Moyle |
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Michael Ritchie |
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Eric Rohmer |
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David O. Russell |
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Kevin Smith |
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Steven Soderbergh |
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Ben Stiller |
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Whit Stillman |
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Richard Linklater's Favourites |
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Carmen Jones (1954)
Otto Preminger,
Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles,
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Ingmar Bergman,
GoodFellas (1990)
Martin Scorsese,
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Rainer Werner
Fassbinder,
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Jean Eustache, Los Olvidados
(1950)
Luis Buñuel,
Pickpocket (1959)
Robert Bresson,
Some Came Running (1958)
Vincente Minnelli,
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick.
Source: Sight & Sound (2002) |
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