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Richard Linklater is an American director and screenwriter from Texas who broke out with his low-budget 1991 film Slacker. After a number of highly acclaimed independent movies, including Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise and Waking Life, Linklater transitioned into larger budget studio pictures, such as School of Rock and a remake of the Bad News Bears. His latest pictures is a film adaptation of the 2001 book Fast Food Nation.
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Fast Facts
- Birth Name: Richard Stuart Linklater
- Birth Date: July 30, 1960
- Birth Place: Houston, Texas
- Before becoming a filmmaker he worked on an off-shore oil rig
- Has his own Production company, [http: //www.detourfilm.com/films.html Detour Films,] based in Austin, Texas
- Shoots most of his films in Texas
- Many of his films take place in one day
- Grand Jury Prize Nomination at Sundance Film Festival for Slackers
- Academy Award Nomination for Before Sunset
- Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007
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Filmography
- 1989: It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
- 1991: Slacker
- 1991: Heads I Win/Tails You Lose
- 1993: Dazed and Confused
- 1995: Before Sunrise
- 1996: subUrbia
- 1998: The Newton Boys
- 2001: Waking Life
- 2001: Tape
- 2003: Live from Shiva's Dance Floor
- 2003: School of Rock
- 2004: [[$5.15/hour]]
- 2004: Before Sunset
- 2005: Bad News Bears
- 2006: A Scanner Darkly
- 2006: Fast Food Nation
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@thecaitlinshow one thing i think would be interesting to ask about is the rehearsal process for the film. richard linklater mentioned it...
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Extra work today, on set of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" http://myloc.me/1oWfH
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Is back home from the shoot! GREAT day! Got to meet Richard Linklater! And be in his film. And hung out with some great people too
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Peliculón RT: @ElCinematografo: ¿Recuerdan "Antes del amanecer"? Hoy tenemos la romántica cinta de Richard Linklater a las 6:30 pm
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Wes Anderson, John Hillcoat, and Richard Linklater will all be at the Apple Store SoHo during next month. #February19th2010
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Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays - $15.00
In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.On a train from Budapes...
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Before Sunset - $19.98
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance spent a night together in vienna & parted before sunrise. Now they cross paths again - in paris - where they will get the chance we all wish we had. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/...
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The Cinema of Richard Linklater - $60.00
Richard Linklater (b. 1960) is an important American film director whose movies include School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, Slacker, A Scanner Darkly and Before Sunrise. This is the first major study of the films of Richard Linklater, a...
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From the director of Slacker and Dazed and Confused comes one of the most imaginative animated features ever made. This funny, ingenious film, which Rolling Stone Magazine calls "nothing short of amazing," explores the fascinating question:...
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I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making a brick. Okay, here I am, a tired inheritor of the Me generation, floating from school to street to bookstore to movi...
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View All Richard Linklater Questions (73) | Ask a QuestionDoes anyone have the Natasha Richard family statement? (3 Answers)http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090318/293.richardson.natasha2.031909.jpg From http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25209804-5001021,00.html A family spokesperson said her husband, actor Liam Neeson, and their two children were "devastated". Alan Nierob, publicist for Richardson's husband Liam Neeson, confirmed her death Wednesday ... read moreWhat does a special envoy or special representative (i.e. Richard Holbrooke) actually do? (2 Answers)He is a diplomat.Day to day, they oversee peace talks, handle issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture. International treaties are usually negotiated by diplomats prior to endorsement by ... read moreWhat should happen to Mayumi Heene and Richard Heene for creating the balloon boy hoax? (16 Answers)I think they should be responsible for the resources that were used. Prison time should be waived in lieu of public service, i.e. repairing the recently plowed field the balloon ... read more
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Richard Linklater Timeline
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- July 30, 1960: Born
- 1985: Founded Austin Film Society
- 1991: Slackers
- 1993: Dazed and Confused
- 1995: Before Sunrise
- 1998: The Newton Boys
- 2001: Waking Life
- 2003: The School of Rock
- 2004: Before Sunset
- 2005: Bad News Bears
- 2006: Fast Food Nation
- 2006: A Scanner Darkly
- 2008: Inning by Inning: A Coach's Progress
- 2013: Boyhood
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