I just watched this terrific documentary off Showtime about the filmmaking career of director, Richard Linklater, who has helmed such now-classics as "Dazed and Confused", "Before Sunrise", "Slacker", "Suburbia", etc.. The film interviews Linklater regulars like Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Jack Black, etc.. and not only goes into the methods of Linklater's filmmaking style, but also into the philosophies of the man himself.
I especially liked the extended bits on his film debut "Slacker", a teeny little indie movie with no stars, no storyline, that just kinda went about the people and streets of Austin, TX, using just about every filmmaking style (and camera!) you can imagine.
My favorites of his are probably D&C, "Suburbia", and only saw it for the first time a few years ago, the aforementioned "Slacker", which had me chuckling at times for no reason-?? I also really liked his remake of "Bad News Bears", which I actually thought was better than the original. It was just perfect Billy Bob Thornton at his most asshole-iest! LOL Not a big fan of the "Before..." trilogy, however I thought it was interesting that they pointed out it was perhaps the lowest grossing trilogy in film history- in another words, the first film had to have made the absolute least amount of money than ANY other movie they went ahead with the sequel-?? LOL Well, anyway, absolutely loved this doc.- one of those that for me could've gone on even longer! Big thumbs up!
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I especially liked the extended bits on his film debut "Slacker", a teeny little indie movie with no stars, no storyline, that just kinda went about the people and streets of Austin, TX, using just about every filmmaking style (and camera!) you can imagine.
My favorites of his are probably D&C, "Suburbia", and only saw it for the first time a few years ago, the aforementioned "Slacker", which had me chuckling at times for no reason-?? I also really liked his remake of "Bad News Bears", which I actually thought was better than the original. It was just perfect Billy Bob Thornton at his most asshole-iest! LOL Not a big fan of the "Before..." trilogy, however I thought it was interesting that they pointed out it was perhaps the lowest grossing trilogy in film history- in another words, the first film had to have made the absolute least amount of money than ANY other movie they went ahead with the sequel-?? LOL Well, anyway, absolutely loved this doc.- one of those that for me could've gone on even longer! Big thumbs up!
Please check out all my reviews, plus lots of good interaction and group discussion about anything/everything movies/TV/entertainment at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/movie.holiks/
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And don't settle for second best!- lots of copy-cat and imitation groups out there, but "the REAL movie-holiks" is THEE original one!