Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023

There's been no shortage of hit-man movies at film festivals this fall. You could line them up on a rooftop somewhere, each with their sniper rifles aimed out at audiences: David Fincher's "The Killer," Michael Keaton's "Knox Goes Away," Harmony Korine's "Aggro Dr1ft."

But the one that...

Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2022

Bike rides, kickball, Jiffy Pop, Jell-O and other well-remembered details crowd Richard Linklater's "Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood," an affectionate ode to his own childhood growing up outside Houston in the late 1960s.

NASA and the moon mission are just next door, as are other...

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017

In this era of rampant sequelizing, has any filmmaker more playfully inverted the standard more-of-the-same monotony than Richard Linklater?

His Oscar-nominated "Boyhood" was, if nothing else, a compendium of life's chapters, filmed — and lived — year after year. His "Before" trilogy...

Friday, Apr. 1, 2016

Director Richard Linklater remembers the year 1980 as a breezy, fun and raunchy time. It was also the end of an era - the last gasp of the "utter hedonistic abandonment" of the 1970s before the conservative cultural backlash of the new...

Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2016

"Everybody Wants Some!!" is Richard Linklater's self-described spiritual sequel to "Dazed and Confused," and, somewhat miraculously, the spirit has remained intact.

It's been 23 years from one to the other: long enough to...

Monday, Mar. 30, 2015

Revelations regarding what ended up on the cutting room floor, backstories and insights into their nominated movies, and advice they’d impart to aspiring filmmakers were among the highlights of the Director Guild of America’s “Meet The Feature Nominees” last month, just hours before the DGA...

Friday, Mar. 27, 2015

SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, March 30, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT ’s March 27 print issue (including extended versions of some stories).

The lineup of...

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015

“Most of us directors are control freaks. That’s why films like this don’t get made,” said Richard Linklater in reference to Boyhood, the remarkable movie he wrote and directed which...

Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015

Director/writer/producer Richard Linklater will receive the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award at the 51st Annual CAS Awards on February 14 at the historic Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.

“We are delighted to be honoring Richard Linklater...

Friday, Jan. 23, 2015

Director/writer/producer Richard Linklater said that reality has exceeded his wildest dreams relative to the plaudits that Boyhood has received, including six Oscar nominations, a DGA Award nod, Producers Guild, Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild nominations, five Independent Spirit...

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