Articles tagged "richard linklater"

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Me and Orson Welles dir. Richard Linklater (trailer)

by Faye Rasmussen

[25.Nov.09] :. Me and Orson Welles, starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes, is releasing today, November 25th. Efron plays a teenage actor who nabs a minor role in a Welles-directed production of Julius...

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Me and Orson Welles dir. Richard Linklater (trailer)

by Brian Parks

[25.Aug.09] :. Me and Orson Welles Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Zac Efron, Claire Danes Opening: 25 November Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat—Zac Efron is not, I repeat not...

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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

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)

by Brian Holcomb

[8.Mar.07] :. This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.

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Film Review

Fast Food Nation (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. Unabashedly didactic, Fast Food Nation points out the cruel lot of immigrant laborers without rights.

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Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection (1993)

by Chris Barsanti

[20.Jul.06] :. Criterion's DVD appreciates the film itself, without trying too hard to analyze or understand it, thank god.

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A Scanner Darkly (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jul.06] :. Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.

 
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)

by Chris Barsanti

[6.Jul.06] :. The suits make for images so fascinating they feel nearly "addictive," appropriate given that the film is about (among other things), viewing, reality, and addiction.

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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.

 

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'.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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....

 

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.