Richard Linklater

Beyond the Multiplex
An encounter with Charlotte Rampling, still sexy after all these years; Richard Linklater's dark, lovely film.
"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.
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"Bad News Bears"
The bad news: No, it's not better than the original. The good news: It's still really, really good.
"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?
"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.
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.
"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.
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.
"Waking Life"
Adults love cartoons for their colors, their energy and their musical movement. Here's one that doesn't devolve into adolescent foolishness.
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.
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.
"There must be a separate God for movies"
The best films of the '90s illuminated the world -- and cinema itself.
"The Newton Boys"
Laura Miller reviews 'The Newton Boys' Directed by Richard Linklater and starring Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke and Dwight Yoakam

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