Movies: Richard Linklater

A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950's loses himself in booze and night clubbing amongst similar other men. Meanwhile he pines for the woman he really loves, but is incapable of establishing a meaningful relationship with...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to mundane activities....

The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the USA: the University of Texas at Austin....

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the c...

An ensemble comedy focused on the bizarre, underpaid employees of Grammaw's Home Cookin'. Commissioned as a pilot for HBO, $5.15/Hr. was not picked up and has never aired on television, but it received a one-time public screening at the SXSW film fes...

It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby waterfall, whilst listening to musicians like Daniel Johnston....

Two salesman go to Nevada to exploit nuclear protesters and end up finding something more....

In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of contemporary America. In many ways, this recent film is a departure of Ben...

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized. At the top of his list is finding a job — and getting his vindictive girlfriend to put out again....

An ex-philosophy professor-turned-hermit hires a sex-worker to play chess and answer a series of personal questions, but with one caveat: she cannot ask any questions about him....

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to...

In ancient Athens, a son is forced to parent his crazy, conservative father-but things get complicated when dad's drunk war buddies come a-knocking....

Poet and performance artist Timothy "Speed" Levitch, who starred in a documentary about his life philosophy in 1998, is back in this meditation on life in post-September 11 New York City. Touring "ground zero" with director Richard Linklater, Levitch...

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival....

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci....

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist....

A profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history....

A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final version of the movie 'A Scanner Darkly'....

A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones....

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks....