Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused was one of the 90’s best movies. Using the final day of high school in the American bicentennial year of 1976 as a platform for exploring 70’s popular culture, politics, teen rituals and the looming threat of adult responsibility, Dazed and Confused was a funny and engrossing American Graffiti for Gen-Xers. The film
Read moreBoyhood is a touching and lyrical film but the story about how it was made is more impressive than what we see on screen. Director Richard Linklater constructed it over 12 years and filmed it in segments between his other projects. A synopsis of the film might bring to mind the Seven-Up series as it follows a young boy named
Read moreAmid the onslaught of chaotic, brain-pummelling effects-driven computer games posing as movies comes romantic drama Before Midnight, a film that actually relies on character development and intelligent dialogue. Before Midnight is the concluding chapter in the trilogy director Richard Linklater began in 1995 with the much-praised Before Sunrise. That film saw itinerant American student Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and French student
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