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Published: May 23, 2007
IIf there's one writer/director who knows how to effectively toe the line dividing mainstream and independent cinema, it's Richard Linkater. The Dazed and Confused director packs an unruly arsenal of films from 1991's Slackers to the wildly popular School of Rock in 2003. Rick Linkater has consistently produced movies that defy formulas.
While his first feature film was 1988's It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, it wasn't until 1991 that Richard Linklater received acclaim for his depiction of youth culture at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 1993 he released another youth-oriented film, Dazed and Confused, which has become an icon of independent cinema for its stories of high school rites of passage including sex, drugs, and booze. The thematic elements of rites of passage are frequent in Rick Linklater's works, generally focused on the coming of age of twenty-somethings.
Richard Linklater himself came of age in Houston, Texas, though he moved to Austin prior to production of his cinematic debut. Many of his films, including Slacker, take place or are filmed in Texas. Other characteristics of Richard Linklater's movies include their sparse time span (often set in a 24-hour period) and a preoccupation with youthful idleness.
The movement from scene to scene in Slackers is dictated by entrances and exits in conversation, and the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset both are driven solely by the conversation of the two main characters who wander the streets doing little besides philosophizing. Waking Life, an animated film, is about the distinction of sleeping dreams and daydreaming, and its stylistic reprise Through a Scanner Darkly maintains that slacking is a form of activism.
While many of these films were shot on relatively low budgets, they achieved a great deal of success for Richard Linklater, including dozens of nominations and multiple wins in film festivals across the world. However, more recent ventures have been in the public eye to a greater extent.
Bad News Bears, for example, a straightforward comedy (and remake of a 1976 classic), starring Billy Bob Thornton and Greg Kinnear, falls into the tradition of underdog to near champion sports team films. School of Rock, while more successful and more highly acclaimed than Bad News Bears, also includes similar themes of ragtag band members making it big under the guidance of their substitute teacher played by Jack Black. These two films also illustrate the scope of popularity of Richard Linklater's movies. Although both films were relatively commercial, School of Rock's success clearly outshone the mediocrity of reviews for Bad News Bears.
Yet Richard Linklater has avoided the pitfall of cookie cutter commercialized success, bouncing back in 2006 with two films that achieved critical acclaim and and independent spirit. Through a Scanner Darkly, while enlisting the help of A-list actors like Keanu Reaves and Robert Downy, Jr., Richard Linklater utilizes the animated rotoscope technique from Waking Life. The film is certainly no typical Hollywood thriller. Fast Food Nation, a fictional dramatization of a work of journalism by Eric Schlosser, was simultaneously billed at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and earned Richard Linklater his first nomination for the Palm d'Or.
In yet another predictably unexpected effort, Richard Linklater announced recently his plans for a movie which is being cautiously referred to as "The Twelve-Year-Old Movie" or "Boyhood." The film stars Ethan Hawke (no stranger to Richard Linklater films) and Patricia Arquette as the divorced parents of a child growing up. The film is highly experimental, employing documentary-style narrative structure and has been in production since 2001. Slowly, Boyhood is being pieced together when the troupe of actors are available, and Richard Linklater expects it to be completed in 2013.
Sources:
Biography for Richard Linklater. IMDb. 1990-2007. Internet Movie Database, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000500/bio.
Carroll, Larry. "Got Plans for 2013? Check Out Linklater's '12-Year Movie'." MTV Movie News. 29 Nov. 2006. MTV Networks. 22 May 2007.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/275891/news/arti cles/1546688/story.jhtml
Glenn, Joshua. "Watching the Detectives." Slate Magazine. 27 June 2006. Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co., LLC. 22 May 2007.http://www.slate.com/id/2144584/.
Murray, Noel. "Interviews: Richard Linklater." The Onion. 14 June 2006. Onion, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/49451
Price, Brian. "Richard Linklater." Senses of Cinema. June 2003. 22 May 2007.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors /03/linklater.html
Richard Linklater. IMDb. 1999-2007. Internet Movie Database, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000500/
While his first feature film was 1988's It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, it wasn't until 1991 that Richard Linklater received acclaim for his depiction of youth culture at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Richard Linklater himself came of age in Houston, Texas, though he moved to Austin prior to production of his cinematic debut. Many of his films, including Slacker, take place or are filmed in Texas. Other characteristics of Richard Linklater's movies include their sparse time span (often set in a 24-hour period) and a preoccupation with youthful idleness.
The movement from scene to scene in Slackers is dictated by entrances and exits in conversation, and the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset both are driven solely by the conversation of the two main characters who wander the streets doing little besides philosophizing. Waking Life, an animated film, is about the distinction of sleeping dreams and daydreaming, and its stylistic reprise Through a Scanner Darkly maintains that slacking is a form of activism.
While many of these films were shot on relatively low budgets, they achieved a great deal of success for Richard Linklater, including dozens of nominations and multiple wins in film festivals across the world. However, more recent ventures have been in the public eye to a greater extent.
Bad News Bears, for example, a straightforward comedy (and remake of a 1976 classic), starring Billy Bob Thornton and Greg Kinnear, falls into the tradition of underdog to near champion sports team films. School of Rock, while more successful and more highly acclaimed than Bad News Bears, also includes similar themes of ragtag band members making it big under the guidance of their substitute teacher played by Jack Black. These two films also illustrate the scope of popularity of Richard Linklater's movies. Although both films were relatively commercial, School of Rock's success clearly outshone the mediocrity of reviews for Bad News Bears.
Yet Richard Linklater has avoided the pitfall of cookie cutter commercialized success, bouncing back in 2006 with two films that achieved critical acclaim and and independent spirit. Through a Scanner Darkly, while enlisting the help of A-list actors like Keanu Reaves and Robert Downy, Jr., Richard Linklater utilizes the animated rotoscope technique from Waking Life. The film is certainly no typical Hollywood thriller. Fast Food Nation, a fictional dramatization of a work of journalism by Eric Schlosser, was simultaneously billed at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and earned Richard Linklater his first nomination for the Palm d'Or.
In yet another predictably unexpected effort, Richard Linklater announced recently his plans for a movie which is being cautiously referred to as "The Twelve-Year-Old Movie" or "Boyhood." The film stars Ethan Hawke (no stranger to Richard Linklater films) and Patricia Arquette as the divorced parents of a child growing up. The film is highly experimental, employing documentary-style narrative structure and has been in production since 2001. Slowly, Boyhood is being pieced together when the troupe of actors are available, and Richard Linklater expects it to be completed in 2013.
Sources:
Biography for Richard Linklater. IMDb. 1990-2007. Internet Movie Database, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000500/bio.
Carroll, Larry. "Got Plans for 2013? Check Out Linklater's '12-Year Movie'." MTV Movie News. 29 Nov. 2006. MTV Networks. 22 May 2007.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/275891/news/arti cles/1546688/story.jhtml
Glenn, Joshua. "Watching the Detectives." Slate Magazine. 27 June 2006. Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co., LLC. 22 May 2007.http://www.slate.com/id/2144584/.
Murray, Noel. "Interviews: Richard Linklater." The Onion. 14 June 2006. Onion, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://www.avclub.com/content/node/49451
Price, Brian. "Richard Linklater." Senses of Cinema. June 2003. 22 May 2007.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors /03/linklater.html
Richard Linklater. IMDb. 1999-2007. Internet Movie Database, Inc. 22 May 2007.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000500/
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