As a filmmaker, Richard Linklater is what you might call affable. In his movies, going all the way back to “Dazed and Confused,” he loves to find the truth in human interaction, but seems uncomfortable with pain that isn’t easily fixed. His best work (The “Before” Trilogy) comes close to really exploring damaged individuals, but […]
Richard Linklater
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Hazed and Confused
Linklater sets his sights on college life
If there were a running theme to the films of Richard Linklater, it would have to be the search for meaning. Each entry in his filmography spends at least a little time on the idea that as humans live through defining moments, they tend to miss the true import until either retrospect or nostalgia kick […]
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Boys on Film
Growing up onscreen in Boyhood
Once a year for 12 years, director Richard Linklater summoned a cast of actors—including his own daughter Lorelei, who was nine when the project began, and Ellar Coltrane, who was six—to film Boyhood, an utterly unique story of an utterly conventional American childhood. Boyhood is set in the 21st century, so there are divorced parents […]