Richard Linklater

Compartment No. 6 Director: Juho Kuosmanen Starring: Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov Runtime: 106 Mins This Russo-Finnish twist on the road movie, with shades of Linklater’s Before Sunrise, takes us from Moscow to Murmansk. Archeology student Laura — from Finland, but studying in the Russian capital — wants to see the Petroglyphs, ancient cave…

Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2 What to make of Richard Linklater’s new movie Apollo 10 ½? It’s a rock in a bucket of rhinestones, to start with. With little concern for the basics of Hollywood hitmaking in the new century, Linklater has fashioned a film with little…

Richard Linklater’s first animated film is a philosophical dreamscape. For those unfamiliar with Linklater, his independent spirit and touching authenticity makes him undoubtedly one of my favorite filmmakers. He directed my favorite movie, Before Sunrise, which is a part of a trilogy that spans over 21 years, and is also…

Spoilers for Watership Down (1978, dir. Martin Rosen) and A Scanner Darkly (2006, dir. Richard Linklater) John Wright: Hello, hello! Comin ‘atcha again with another edition of the Zone Film Challenge. The prompt this week; Animated Oddities. This is one that I suspect we may come back to at some…

‘Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?’ — Before Sunrise How can romance be made authentic and novel, while also entertaining? In creating the Before Trilogy, perhaps Richard Linklater mulled along these lines in order to put his romantic vision to test. …

Memories of good times in a great theater as a fundraiser begins — Last week, the Austin Film Society announced its intention to reopen the AFS Cinema this summer, an exceedingly welcome piece of news after 15 very hard months in the world of movie watching. …