Richard Linklater

Up all night with a psycho blonde Up all night with a psycho blonde

Screwed-up strangers hook up for a last-minute New Year's date in the profane and delightful "In Search of a Midnight Kiss."
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 31, 2008

  • Beyond the Multiplex

    An encounter with Charlotte Rampling, still sexy after all these years; Richard Linklater's dark, lovely film.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 6, 2006

  • "Slacker": 15 years later

    Richard Linklater, the pap-smear girl, the JFK guy and others remember the little indie creation that could, and all that came after.
    By Brian Raftery July 5, 2006

  • Join the Conversations!

    In Salon's brand-new podcast, John Cameron Mitchell talks about the real sex in his film and why he prefers Pat Robertson's moral outrage to George W. Bush's hypocrisy, while Richard Linklater talks about his two new releases. Listen in!
    June 1, 2006

  • "Bad News Bears"

    The bad news: No, it's not better than the original. The good news: It's still really, really good.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 22, 2005

  • "Before Sunset"

    Nine years after his exquisite "Before Sunrise," director Richard Linklater answers the question: Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night?
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 2, 2004

  • "Love has to be about more than commitment"

    Richard Linklater talks about adult passion and why he, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke know so much more now than they did nine years ago.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 2, 2004

  • The kids are alright

    Indie godhead Richard Linklater on teaching fifth-graders to shred for "School of Rock," the amazing Jack Black and moving from the margins to the mainstream -- and back again.
    By Scott Thill October 4, 2003

  • "School of Rock"

    When an aging wannabe guitar god somehow becomes the fifth-grade teacher at a ritzy private school, he rocks their world -- and, improbably, ours.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 3, 2003

  • Ground zero: Where the buffalo roam?

    A new film from "Slacker" director Richard Linklater offers a daring, crackpot vision for the World Trade Center memorial: A 16-acre park full of free-roaming bison.
    By Su Ciampa January 21, 2003

  • "Waking Life"

    Adults love cartoons for their colors, their energy and their musical movement. Here's one that doesn't devolve into adolescent foolishness.
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 4, 2001

  • The stuff movies are made of

    Director Richard Linklater talks about dreams, Philip K. Dick and his magical, revolutionary "Waking Life," a thinking person's cartoon about the meaning of life.
    By Jeff Stark November 20, 2001

  • Ribisi rising

    Giovanni Ribisi's risumi read like that of every up-and-comer-to-watch this side of John Travolta. Then he attracted the notice of the best directing talents in the business.
    By Jessica Hundley February 18, 2000

  • "There must be a separate God for movies"

    The best films of the '90s illuminated the world -- and cinema itself.
    By Charles Taylor January 4, 2000

  • "The Newton Boys"

    Laura Miller reviews 'The Newton Boys' Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke and Dwight Yoakam
    By Laura Miller March 27, 1998
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