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Richard Linklater

 

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer / Cinematographer / Actor
1960 - 
Born July 30, Houston, Texas
Key Production Country: USA 
Key Genres: Comedy Drama, Ensemble Film, Comedy
Key Collaborators: Sandra Adair (Editor), Anne Walker-McBay (Producer), Ethan Hawke (Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Lee Daniel (Cinematographer), Julie Delpy (Leading Character Player/Screenwriter), Bruce Curtis (Production Designer), Tommy Pallotta (Producer/Cinematographer), Jonah Smith (Producer), Palmer West (Producer), Rory Cochrane (Leading Character Player)
Recommended: Slacker (1991), Dazed and Confused (1993), School of Rock (2003), Before Sunset (2004), A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ World Socialist Web Site Interview ] [ IndieWIRE Interview (2001) ] [ A.V. Club Interview (2006) ] [ 1997 MovieMaker Interview ] [ Guardian Interview (2006) ] [ Culture Pulp Comic Strip Interview ] [ Inside Film Interview (2001) ] [ Filmmaker Interview (2006) ] [ Filmmaker Interview (2006) ]
Books: [ The Cinema of Richard Linklater ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Dazed and Confused (1993)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Waking Life (2001), School of Rock (2003), Before Sunset (2004), A Scanner Darkly (2006)
 
Dazed and Confused (1993)School of Rock (2003)Before Sunset (2004)Waking Life (2001)
 
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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