#Richard linklater slacker full#

That isn't to suggest that Linklater had failed to create a plausible scenario just that time had hardened Celine into someone with whom I could no longer sympathize or relate. I couldn't wait for the film to end so I could get away from her-a reaction Delpy has never elicited in me before. He’d be left as a community kook, the exact sort of eccentric that populated Linklater’s 1991 walkabout quasi-comedy Slacker. Over the years, unfortunately, Celine had become resentful of Jesse's more successful career. Ironically, Boyhood arrives only a year after Before Midnight, the rare Linklater effort to actively irritate me, which took me by surprise since I had found Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) such agreeable company in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, the first films in the 'Before' series. Dick's A Scanner Darkly (both films feature rotoscoping, in which he animated live-action sequences after the fact). Which made him a good choice, I thought, for a suitably tripped-out adaptation of Philip K. Two of them hated it, but I've thought a lot about lucid dreaming ever since-Linklater planted that seed in my head. It was worth the wait, and that's when I decided, 'Hey! I like this guy.' I even liked Waking Life, which I saw with a group of friends at the Broadway Market Cinemas (R.I.P.). I remember, for instance, waiting in a line that snaked around the Neptune just so I could see his third film, Dazed and Confused, at SIFF '94 with Linklater in attendance.

Considering the length of his filmography, that's a pretty good record.

#Richard linklater slacker full#

Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Since that first disappointing experience, I've seen every film he's made, with the exception of Fast Food Nation, and I've liked most of them. It goes on.like TV channel-cruising, no plot, no tragic flaws, no resolution, just mastering the moment, pushing forward, full of sound and fury, full of life signifying everything on any given day. Watch Vanity Fair’s whole interview with Linklater below. “Where’d You Go Bernadette” is now in theaters. 20 Years Later: Waking Life Richard Linklater, aside from Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight, hasn’t made any direct sequels, but he does like to make spiritual sequels.His Everybody Wants Somewas very much a pseudo-sequel to Dazed and Confused none of the characters were the same but the vibe was strikingly similar. “This obsessive parenting, mother-daughter relationship, and it’s also a depiction of an artist who is not creating their art, which is the scariest thing in the world.” “My personal jumping-off point was my mom,” he said. Halfway through, it had matured, just because the kids came into their element…Each year it got better and better, and I realized, that’s what growing up feels like.”įinally, for his new film, “Where’d You Go Bernadette,” Annapurna’s Megan Ellison brought Maria Semple’s novel to Linklater, and he was immediately struck by the narrative of an agoraphobic architect (Cate Blanchett) on the lam. Luckily IFC gave me a couple hundred thousand a year to make it,” he said. “It came to me in a flash, and then I just got going on it. Linklater’s 2014 coming-of-age epic “ Boyhood,” which won Patricia Arquette a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, “had a very brief gestation,” he said, despite being shot, in sequence, in pieces across a 12-year period.

“That the thing that doesn’t work in my head will work like that,” Linklater said of his dreamlike, philosophical reverie that remains a cult classic - and probably one of the all-time stoner movies.ĭetour/Independent Film/Line Research/Kobal/Shutterstock “It was one of those great mash-ups of form and content,” he said. “Before Midnight” is dedicated to her.Īnother Linklater favorite is 2001’s “Waking Life,” which pioneered the digital rotoscoping animation technique where animators trace over motion-picture film, frame by frame, to disorienting, trippy effect. Even that night, I was very aware, I want to make a film about this.” Though Linklater never saw her again, it was revealed in a 2013 Chicago Tribune article that the woman died in 1994. It was that magical thing that happens between people. “We really spent that whole night just walking around Philly. “She was flirting with me, and we had this kind of connection,” he said. Linklater remembers visiting his sister in Philadelphia in 1989, when he met a young woman in a toy store who became the real-life inspiration for Celine.

After doing two sprawling ensemble films with “Slacker” and “Dazed,” Linklater said, “I remember having this urge inside me, it’s time to do that intimate story.” This was the genesis of 1995’s two-hander romance “Before Sunrise” - which since spawned the sequels “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight,” which follow protagonists Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) over the next 20 years as they drift in and out of each other’s lives after one fateful night in Vienna.