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RICHARD LINKLATER

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 9, 2016
Linklater swaps tension for jock jokes in 'Everybody Wants Some!!'
With his 1993 major studio debut, "Dazed & Confused," director Richard Linklater tried to go mainstream with the style he'd explored in his Gen-X defining indie hit "Slacker." Set on the last day of school in the summer of 1976, "Dazed" felt like it was happening in real time, with a huge cast of characters that kept bouncing off each other like the director was playing some human pinball game.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 16, 2015
Mumblecore arrives in Japan, a decade late
The closest thing American cinema has had to a movement in recent years has been the self-deprecatingly titled genre, mumblecore, made up of lo-fi independent films that incestuously share cast, crew and concerns. Take the insecurity and self-obsession of Woody Allen's "Manhattan" mixed with the chatty characters from a Richard Linklater film, then throw in a lot of umms and you'll get the picture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 24, 2014
Top 10 films of 2014: in search of originality
The longer you go on watching and writing about film, the more you start to feel like one of those jaded vampires in Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive." It's as though art's power to surprise and amaze you is nowhere near what it was when you were fresh to it. "Gone Girl" and "Interstellar" were both good films, but how good you rate them might depend on whether you've already seen "Basic Instinct" and "To Die For," or "Contact" and "2001," respectively. Amid the many decent films of 2014, there were a few that I can honestly say were as powerful and astonishing as anything I've seen in my life.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 12, 2014
Boyhood: 'Never has the passage of time on screen seemed so real or poignant'
The only reason I hesitate to give Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" five stars is that you will be expecting a masterpiece. And a "masterpiece" these days is all too often a film that is trying very hard for that status, weighted with its own self-importance. (Dare I cite "There Will be Blood" or "The Tree of Life" as examples?)

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