Topic: Richard Linklater

Michael Phillips: Readers open to ambiguity

Endings are never easy, and open-ended endings - fantastic paradox! - remind us of the art involved with movie endings that tantalize without...
You may have missed the Los Angeles Film Fest's opening-night flick last night, Richard Linklater's Bernie, with stars Jack Black, Matthew...

Road Trip Tunes

Road Trip Tunes -. . Summer can often mean taking road trips with friends and family and it's important to have a great selection of tunes to...

Top High School Movies

Top High School Movies -. . Some of the top movies of all time are set in the hallways of high school. And why not? Those teenage years of many of...
Management/production company Anonymous Content is about to make a major play in the talent game. I'm hearing that Doug Wald is leaving his...

Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater is an American director and screenwriter from Texas who broke out with his low-budget 1991 film Slacker . After a number of highly acclaimed independent movies, including Dazed and Confused , Before Sunrise and Waking Life , Linklater transitioned into larger budget studio ...

Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused is a film by director Richard Linklater that takes an autobiographical look at the adventures of a group of teens in small-town Texas , on the last day of school in 1976 . Starring a cast of soon-to-be stars including Matthew ...

Movie reviews: A Scanner Darkly

Richard Linklater established a glaring, jarring and brilliantly unique animated visual style for his previous film Waking Life, and then incorrectly believed he should employ that style for subsequent films. This is a perfect example of a film that would have been ...
Going into Richard Linklater's latest film, Bad News Bears, I would be lying if I said my expectations were a bit high for the film. Linklater, who knocked the ball out of the park with The School of Rock, was set ...

Matthew McConaughey reunites with "Dazed'" director

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Matthew McConaughey is joining Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine in "Bernie," a dark comedy that will reunite him with his "Dazed and Confused" director Richard Linklater."Bernie" is set in the small town of Carthage, Texas, and follows ...