Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston State University, and Charles W. 2.3 2014–present: Boyhood and other works.In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood. He has received several Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for his work on Before Sunrise. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative. Linklater is known to have a distinct style and method of filmmaking. His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993) the Before trilogy of romance films, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013) the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003) the animated films Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006) the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014) and the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). He is known for films that revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Richard Stuart Linklater ( / ˈ l ɪ ŋ k l eɪ t ər/ born July 30, 1960) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Not exactly the Holy Grail, but a nice find for serious Linklater geeks.Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Before trilogy, School of Rock, Waking Life, Slacker
The only way to make the film remotely interesting is to turn on Linklater's commentary, even if you've never seen the film before, because he quite eruditely explores his various influences and the impetus to make what he freely admits is kind of an "anti-film." Not only is this the first time that Learn To Plow has been available on any home format, it's almost never been shown outside of Austin since it was made. Filmed on a $3,000 budget, with Linklater not only starring but doing all the crew work himself, Learn To Plow is an exercise in what the director calls "an oblique narrative" and what most people would call "boring." There's almost no dialogue and the film purposefully explores the most mundane elements of life: brushing teeth, reading a magazine, staring out the window. Revealing for its links to Slacker's aesthetic, and if you're a serious Linklater fanatic, but otherwise really pretty damn dull is the filmmaker's first full-length effort, 1988's It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books. A working script, audition tapes, footage from a tenth anniversary reunion and an essay on slacker culture by Linklater round out the Slacker-oriented extras. Slacker gets three full-length commentaries by Linklater and the cast and crew of Slacker (yeah, three is overkill), as well as a ten-minute trailer for a documentary about Austin cafe Les Amis, which serves as a backdrop for several Slacker scenes. This edition is focused not just on Slacker itself but even more so on Linklater's early career and the Austin film scene (home to Robert Rodriguez and Aint It Cool News, among others). Each person we meet is only a brief glimpse into the banality of their lives, a moment in time that we can observe but not really share we are flies on walls, not participants and this distance is essential to understanding (or not) the intent of Linklater's film. But what it doesn't do purposefully, forcefully and occasionally, irritatingly is return to anyone we've met along the way. From this initial cab ride, Linklater's narrative picks up different passers-by and follows them: into houses, stores, on meandering journeys and with purposeful strides. The rider is director Richard Linklater (now better known for Dazed and Confused and School of Rock) and the philosophical musings pretty much sum up the subtext, if not the narrative, of Slacker.
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During the ride, he discusses with the cab driver the nature of a linear universe, in which his decision to take a cab will impact everything about his day and maybe everything about the rest of his life.
The film opens with a traveller arriving in Austin, Texas by bus he contemplates walking to his destination but takes a cab instead.
Given its loosey-goosey arrangement, one could be forgiven for thinking this a feature by a bunch of lazy losers who make it up as they go along. Fans of Richard Linklater's Sundance-acclaimed 1991 film Slacker will flip for this Criterion two-disc treatment, which reveals his meandering non-narrative as much more structured, almost formal, than it ever did upon an initial viewing.
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