Movies by Richard Linklater
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Great Directors (2009)
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani …
Directed by: Angela Ismailos
New York-based businesswoman and filmmaker Angela Ismailos offers this collection of in-depth interviews with David Lynch, John Sayles, Catherine Breillat, Bernardo Bertolucci and six other…
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Registered Sex Offender (2008)
Cast: Gabriel McIver, Kristen Tucker, Kevin Corrigan …
Directed by: Bob Byington
After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender (Gabriel McIver) returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized. At the top of his…
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Spy Kids (2001)
Cast: Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas …
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
The tables are turned when pint-sized kids Carmen and Juni must rescue their secret-agent parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) from the diabolical clutches of Alexander Minion (Tony…
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Waking Life (2001)
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Peter Atherton, Steve Brudniak …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Director Richard Linklater's mesmerizing animated film follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) as he floats in and out of philosophical discussions with a succession of eccentrics and…
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Slacker (1991)
Cast: Richard Linklater, Marc James, Stella Weir …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's 1991 cult classic gives viewers surreal slices of what it's like to be a twentysomething in the college town of Austin, Texas. Told through a series of vignettes…
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Bernie (2011)
Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
In this black comedy inspired by real-life events, affable Texas mortician Bernie befriends the small town's wealthiest widow and then kills her. But despite the suspicious nature of her…
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Cast: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
The story of a whirlwind week in 1937 NYC when a young aspiring actor (Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles'…
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Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008)
Cast: Augie Garrido, Cathy Clark, Roger Clemens …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Filmmaker Richard Linklater -- an Austin resident and former college baseball player -- directs this insightful documentary about Augie Garrido, the University of Texas baseball great who…
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Working as an undercover cop in a world where almost everyone is addicted to Substance D -- a drug that produces split personalities in its users -- Fred Arctor (Keanu Reeves) sets up an…
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Fast Food Nation (2006)
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Patricia Arquette …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's fictional tale (inspired by Eric Schlosser's 2001 nonfiction book of the same name) critiques the junk-food juggernaut that's arguably responsible for…
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Bad News Bears (2005)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
A grizzled little league coach tries to lead a ragtag team of misfits and delinquents to victory in this remake of the 1970s classic. With little hope that his new team will be any good,…
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Before Sunset (2004)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke reprises his role as Jesse, a traveling American who fell for a sweet French girl named Celine (Julie Delpy) while he was backpacking through Europe, in this sequel to the 1995…
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School of Rock (2003)
Cast: Jack Black, Adam Pascal, Lucas Papaelias …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fourth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins…
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Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)
Cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch
Directed by: Richard Linklater
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.…
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Tape (2001)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
After 10 years apart, three friends (Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma Thurman) reunite in a motel room to play out the unresolved drama of their final high school days. As layers of…
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Waking Life (2001)
Cast: Wiley Wiggins, Peter Atherton, Steve Brudniak …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Director Richard Linklater's mesmerizing animated film follows a young man (Wiley Wiggins) as he floats in and out of philosophical discussions with a succession of eccentrics and…
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The Newton Boys (1998)
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Four Texan brothers (Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke, Matthew McConaughey and Skeet Ulrich) ignite a crime spree in the 1920s, robbing more than 200 banks across the nation -- without…
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SubUrbia (1996)
Cast: Jayce Bartok, Amie Carey, Nicky Katt …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
In director Richard Linklater's coming-of-age story, Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi), Tim (Nicky Katt) and their shiftless pals while away the night at the local convenience store as shop clerk…
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
This intoxicating film from director Richard Linklater stars Ethan Hawke as an American backpacker who strikes up a conversation with a lovely fellow traveler (Julie Delpy) on the train to…
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
Cast: Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Director Richard Linklater's coming-of-age comedy follows a group of teenagers on their last day of school in 1976, centering on Randall "Pink" Floyd, who moves easily among stoners,…
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Slacker (1991)
Cast: Richard Linklater, Marc James, Stella Weir …
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's 1991 cult classic gives viewers surreal slices of what it's like to be a twentysomething in the college town of Austin, Texas. Told through a series of vignettes…