Richard Linklater

Prince Avalanche Director David Gordon Green Finds Inspiration in Texas' Worst Fire Ever

Dazed and Confused and Stories from Psycho: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, July 12 Experience summer heat in the air-conditioned Warner Grand Theatre at 8 p.m. with Under the Tuscan Sun, the romantic comedy-drama about a recently divorced writer (Diane Lane) who, while on a tour in Tuscany, spontaneously buys a villa and ... More >>

Silent Hitchcock, Sean Connery and a Coachella Valley Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, June 14 The Coachella music festival may be over, but the Coachella Valley is keeping the party going with AMFM (Art Music Film and More) through June 16 in Cathedral City. More than 50 films will screen at the UltraStar Mary Pickford Stadium 14, ... More >>

Before Midnight Review: Richard Linklater's Fateful Lovers Are Back

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Return to Finish the Trilogy

Triple the Fun With Linklater's Before Films and the Back to the Future Trio: Your Weekly To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 17 In 1995, audiences met Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in Before Sunrise, the story of a chance meeting on a train that turns into a night of conversation and roaming around Vienna. With only a short time together until Jesse' ... More >>

Ethan Hawke, Before and After: Watching an Actor Grow Up

Everything You Need to Know About What Happened at Sundance

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady consideration o ... More >>

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Why Do So Many Good L.A. Novels Have Bad Movie Adaptations?

Linklater, Samurai and Jean Arthur: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 9 Don't Knock the Rock, Cinefamily's annual summer series of seminal rock & roll flicks co-founded by L.A. Weekly People 2012 person Allison Anders, kicks off tonight with a screening of Jobriath A.D., Kieran Turner's doc ... More >>

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

Bernie Review

Jack Black, somehow, some way, stars in the smartest American movie in ages

Matthew McConaughey on Super Bowl Sunday: One Toque Over the Line

In Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, Matthew McConaughey's character, David Wooderson, is an aging post-grad who still hangs with the high school kids. He likes girls, reefer and football, though not necessarily in that order. A Texan and a football flick veteran, the real McConaughey isn't ... More >>

AFI Film Festival 2011:ALPS and Attenberg

L.A. Film Fest Opens With Richard Linklater's Bernie: Like Christopher Guest Doing Errol Morris Doing Fargo

Jack Black: walking gay caricature?​ Ah, LAFF opening night. More or less settled in to its LA Live homebase in its second year there (I mean, I was able to pick up my pass, get into the screening and transition to the afterparty completely painlessly, which is some kind of victory), our city' ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Nicholas Ray, Pat Garrett and the Austin Kids: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Kevin Smith: "I Am So, Like, Sick of Movies and Shit"

On the road with the cult filmmaker turned podcaster turned DIY warrior

Malcolm McLaren is Dead

​Malcolm McClaren, the art/punk swindler/genius who managed the Sex Pistols, died this morning in New York. He had cancer, and was 64. Throughout a spotty but rather fascinating forty year career in pop culture, McClaren had hands in fashion, all forms of music, and film. He famously lost hi ... More >>

Growing Pains: Inside the SXSW Film Awards

​ Tonight's SXSW Film Awards began with a speech, apparently conceived at the last minute, by SXSW co-founder and Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black. With negative buzz building against the festival's overcrowded screenings (lines routinely circled blocks, and at some highly-anticipated scre ... More >>

Winding Down

Passing time and finding a new pragmatism in the movies of the ’00s

Movie Reviews: Ninja Assassin, Old Dogs, The Sun

Also, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The End of Poverty? and more

Tarantino Picks His 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

(Some serious gourmet shit)

Video: Quentin Tarantino's 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

Battle RoyaleWhen Ella Taylor asked me to rename my top five films of all time, I tattled off the obvious titles. She then asked, "Any since the last 17 years?""In my top five?" I asked incredulously. "Well, okay, top 10," she relented."Well, let me think about that."And upon later reflection, I rea ... More >>

L-I-V-I-N at Hollywood Forever: Cinespia presents Dazed and Confused

View more photos in the "L-I-V-I-N: Dazed and Confused @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery" slideshow. Shannon CottrellContemplating if they should try to wait in the long line.It took an hour to find parking somewhere in the vicinity of Hollywood Forever on Sunday night, at least half of which was spent ... More >>

17 Again: Zac Efron Shoots Wad, Scores!

High School Musical — er — Basketball

Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

As film’s angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane

Waltz With Bashir: Ari Folman's New Animation Blurs Line Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Film depicts Lebanese militia's infamous massacre of Palestinians at Sabra-Shatila

Citizen Lame

Having always thought fondly of Richard Linklater's underseen and underrated 1920s bank-heist comedy The Newton Boys, I've been eager to see the versatile, Austin-based director take another stab at directing a period film. Unfortunately, after catching up with Linklater's Me and Orson Welles here i ... More >>

In the Beginning

2 Days in Paris: After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next

Once Upon a Time

Nameless romantics sing of love and loss in a beguiling Irish fairy tale

Film Reviews: Meet the Robinsons, Blades of Glory

Also, The Hills Have Eyes II, Air Guitar Nation and After the Wedding

Hardened Arteries and Empty Calories

Fast Food Nation and For Your Consideration pillory American excess

The Meat of the Matter

Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation

Mutual Appreciation Society

The World of Andrew Bujalski

Dear Kevin

Keanu, Darkly

Reeves and Linklater scan through Dick’s druggie dystopia

Kill the Moonlight

School of Bach

Christophe Barratier’s pleasant enough, if predictable, The Chorus

Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

Being and Zaniness

I ♥ Huckabees is an existential fun fest

Sunrise, Sunset . . . and Beyond

Richard Linklater tunes up his time machine

Monster Mosh

Music docs rock the festival

Fogtown and Ze Boys

Post-adolescent anomie at the 45th annual San Francisco International Film Festival

Teen Spirit

Rockboy Ben Kweller phones home

This Waking Life

Richard Linklater’s dream works

The Matthew Show

Beer, BBQ and Bullock

at the South by Southwest Film Festival

Oy!

Yakin’s mishegoss, Linklater’s mild bunch