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Richard Linklater


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  • Tape
  • Tape review by herohat from Bath,england.
    Rated - 2.0 stars Not Linklater's best. 14 February 2006
    ...This movie looks like it was shot on Richard Linklater's day off with a few friends,the promising opening centering on Hawke's unpredictable character goes nowhere and there are...   Read customer review
  • Slacker
  • Slacker review by from STRATHAVEN
    Rated - 2.0 stars 6 November 2004
    ...I love Richard Linklater, one of the kings of dialogue and charactarisation. By it's nature, this film has to rely entirely on it's dialogue - which i'm sad to say is mostly dir...   Read customer review
  • Waking Life
  • Waking Life review by Alfod from West Midlands
    Rated - 4.0 stars Interesting 26 October 2005
    ...ly innovative movies are always a draw for me and I was intrigued to learn that Richard Linklater had brought out a full length movie in which live action had been rotoscope-ani...   Read customer review

Richard Linklater - filmography


  • Great Directors (2009)
    Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci,  Catherine Breillat,  Liliana Cavani
    Director: Angela Ismailos
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3 members
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  • Me and Orson Welles on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Chaplin,  Claire Danes,  Zac Efron
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    ME AND ORSON WELLES is set in the exciting world of the New York Theatre. Teenage student Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles (strikingly portrayed by newcomer Christian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 9,992 members
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  • A Scanner Darkly on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Winona Ryder,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Thriller based on the novel by Philip K. Dick. The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on his sanity is too great to comprehend. Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is a narcotics officer who is issued an ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 25,302 members
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  • Bad News Bears on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Greg Kinnear,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Bob Thornton delivers a wickedly funny performance in this hilarious hit from the director of School of Rock. Morris Buttermaker (Thorton), former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a srtuggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 3,332 members
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  • Before Sunset on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Indie filmmaker Richard Linklater directs this sequel to the 1995 film 'Before Sunrise'. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their roles as Jesse and Celine, who nine years ago were two young students who met on a train and spent a night deep in conversation in Vienna. Now, they're about to cross ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 24,958 members
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  • School of Rock on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Joan Cusack,  Jack Black,  Veronica Afflerbach
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Linklater's film about a teacher (?) inspiring his pupils. To Dewey Finn (Jack Black) music is his life and that includes playing lead guitar in a bar band, who manage to get gigs here and there and aim to win a regional battle-of-the-bands competition. The only thing standing in their way ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 57,115 members
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  • Waking Life on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Steven Soderbergh,  Wiley Wiggins
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Writer-director Richard Linklater returns to the terrain of his debut feature, 'Slacker', with another series of loose meditations on various philosophical topics voiced by a disparate series of young Americans. Shot on digital video and then processed using a technique known as rotoscoping, which ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,572 members
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  • Tape on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Robert Sean Leonard,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan, three old friends come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. John, a first-time filmmaker, is in Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, now a volunteer firefighter and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2,152 members
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  • The Newton Boys on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio,  Dwight Yoakam,  Miriam Margolyes
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The four Newton brothers have become America's most successful outlaws, holding up eighty banks from Texas to Canada. Their next robbery is planned for the Federal Reserve train, but this audacious stunt comes under threat when the Feds themselves start closing in on the notorious siblings.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 608 members
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  • Suburbia (1996)
    Starring: Jayce Bartok,  Amie Carey,  Nicky Katt
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Director Richard Linklater and writer/actor Eric Bogosian collaborated on this adaptation of Bogosian's play about a handful of people edging into their 20's who seem like the poor relations of the genial eccentrics in Linklater's Slacker. While the Texas bohemians in Slacker has their myriad ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 24 members
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  • Before Sunrise on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Ethan Hawke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Richard Linklater's third feature -- set, like his other works, over the course of one 24-hour period -- Before Sunrise is a sweet, intelligent romantic comedy filmed primarily in Austria. It stars Ethan Hawke as Jesse, a young American travelling through Europe. On a train he meets Celine, a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 18,513 members
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  • Dazed And Confused on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Milla Jovovich,  Anthony Rapp,  Michelle Burke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It's middle America, 1976, and school's out for summer. The kids of the town are determined to mark the end of term with a celebration, but the party planned at one of the student's houses is cancelled when his parents find out and decide to stay home. The result? A long hot night of pot, kegs, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,602 members
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  • Slacker on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Jean Caffeine,  Rudy Basquez,  Richard Linklater
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the key American independent films of the 1990s, Richard Linklater's feature debut is an audacious look at the twentysomething culture in the college town of Austin, Texas. Set over the course of a 24-hour period, the film is a collection of short, unconnected glimpses into the dropout ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,621 members
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Richard Linklater facts

5 most recent films

Before Midnight - 2.5 stars
Bernie - 3.5 stars
Great Directors - 3.0 stars
Me and Orson Welles - 3.0 stars
Fast Food Nation - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dazed And Confused - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Bernie - 3.5 stars
MTV's Beavis And Butthead Do America - 3.5 stars
Dazed And Confused - 3.5 stars
Before Sunrise - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Before Midnight - 2.5 stars
Great Directors - 3.0 stars
Suburbia - 4.0 stars
Bad News Bears - 2.5 stars
Tape - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ethan Hawke - 20 times - show films
Julie Delpy - 13 times - show films
Adam Goldberg - 7 times - show films
Matthew McConaughey - 7 times - show films
Adam Goldberg - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kim J - 2 times - show films
Mike Judge - 2 times - show films
Yvette Kaplan - 2 times - show films
Kim Jae Joong - 2 times - show films
none - 1 times - show films