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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 ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Official Website: Detour Film Production ] [ A.V. Club Interview (2006) ] [ 1997 MovieMaker Interview ] [ Guardian Interview (2006) ] [ Culture Pulp Comic Strip Interview ] [ Linklater's Top 10 Criterion DVD's ] [ Filmmaker Interview (2006) ] [ Filmmaker Interview (2006) ] [ Future Movies Interview (2010) ]
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)
 
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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