Articles tagged "richard linklater"

Books Review

Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism by Kent Jones

by David Sterritt

[23.Jan.08] :. What matters isn’t whether you or I agree with Jones, of course, but whether his writing offers new insights into the films and directors at hand.

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Film DVD Review

Bad News Bears (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.05] :. The DVD extras are mostly valuable for the access they grant to Richard Linklater, who is a terrific storyteller and articulate filmmaker.

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Film Review

Bad News Bears (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jul.05] :. Morris Buttermaker's (Billy Bob Thornton) efforts to 'get down' with his token black player lead to slogany appreciation for the struggle ('Don't trust whitey') and the requisite 'the shizzle'.

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Film Review

Before Sunset (2004)

by Michael Healey

[2.Jul.04] :. Before Sunset illustrates the beautiful and frustrating complexity of human hearts seeking love and meaning in a life we know to be transient.

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The School of Rock (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Mar.04] :. 'I'm always going 10 miles too far over the top, and sometimes I have a tendency to go crazy ham and cheese,' says Jack Black.

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Film Review

The School of Rock (2003)

by Elbert Ventura

[2.Oct.03] :. A welcome reminder that studio comedies need not be shoddy, dumbed down, vulgar, and impersonal, the movie is unimaginable without Jack Black.

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Tape (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What it gets you thinking about, while you watch it and for some time afterwards, is whether anyone can ever know what has 'happened,' and more disturbingly, how the tendency to want such knowledge can be violent.

Waking Life (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Interpolations Waking Life begins with two kids (Trevor Jack Brooks and Lorelei Linklater, daughter of the film’s director Richard Linklater) playing a paper hand-puzzle game....

Waking Life (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

Throughout Waking Life, the pictures rarely, if ever, stop moving, flowing, breathing -- attention has been paid to the animated environments, not just the characters in the foreground.