There was a party at the moon tower, but Richard Linklater got stuck with the bill. Or at least that’s how it felt to the Austin-based writer-director, one of the principal architects of the American independent movement whose work has launched a string of A-list careers.
The creator of Hollywood hits like “School of Rock” and “The Bad News Bears” remake, as well as laid-back prestige enterprises like “Slacker,” “Waking Life,” and the “Before” trilogy, spoke to The Daily Beast while promoting his latest, Netflix’s nostalgia-rich animated delight “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood.” When the topic of the 1993 classic “Dazed and Confused” came up, it clearly touched a nerve.
“Where’s my money?” he asked. “How come a movie that cost less than 7 million has 12 million in interest against it?”
In addition to giving us a string of quotable lines, “Dazed and Confused” was the ostensible screen debut for Matthew McConaughey,...
The creator of Hollywood hits like “School of Rock” and “The Bad News Bears” remake, as well as laid-back prestige enterprises like “Slacker,” “Waking Life,” and the “Before” trilogy, spoke to The Daily Beast while promoting his latest, Netflix’s nostalgia-rich animated delight “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood.” When the topic of the 1993 classic “Dazed and Confused” came up, it clearly touched a nerve.
“Where’s my money?” he asked. “How come a movie that cost less than 7 million has 12 million in interest against it?”
In addition to giving us a string of quotable lines, “Dazed and Confused” was the ostensible screen debut for Matthew McConaughey,...
- 4/6/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
One of the most acclaimed and celebrated movies of the year so far, Richard Linklater's mature indie romance Before Midnight (2013), the third chapter in the director's long-running Before trilogy, will be available to own on DVD with UltraViolet from this coming Monday (28 October). To celebrate the home entertainment release of Before Midnight, we have Three DVD copies of the film to give away to a our Linklater-loving readership, courtesy of the team at UK distributors Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (French actress Julie Delpy) first met in their twenties in the Parisian-set Before Sunrise (1995), reunited in their thirties on a visit to Vienna for Before Sunset (2004) and, now, in director Richard Linklater's amazing Before Midnight,...
Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (French actress Julie Delpy) first met in their twenties in the Parisian-set Before Sunrise (1995), reunited in their thirties on a visit to Vienna for Before Sunset (2004) and, now, in director Richard Linklater's amazing Before Midnight,...
- 10/28/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Given that he's one of the more diverse and prolific filmmakers out there, it's been a disappointingly long four years without a new movie from Richard Linklater ("Me and Orson Welles" premiered at Tiff in 2008). Fortunately, the Austin, Texas-based filmmaker is back with "Bernie," a dark comedy which reunites him with two of his most memorable leads, Jack Black and Matthew McConaughey, that has picked up strong reviews and, opening in limited release last Friday, has been performing surprisingly well at the box office.
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
With "Bernie" expanding wider this weekend (read our review), it seemed like the perfect time to look over Linklater's diverse and eclectic career. He'd already made his mark by founding the Austin Film Society in 1985 (which has gone on to be the center of the industy in the Texas city), but since his debut with an ultra-low-budget student film in 1988, Linklater's tackled everything from romance to...
- 5/2/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
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