Richard Linklater
Biography: Richard Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American self-taught film director, producer and screenwriter. Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period, Linklater's work explored what he dubbed "the youth rebellion continuum," focusing in fine detail on generational rites and mores with rare compassion and understanding while definitively capturing the 20-something culture of his era through a series of nuanced, illuminating ensemble pieces which introduced any number of talented young actors into the Hollywood firmament.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 30, 1960
Deathday: N/A
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Spy Kids
2001-03-18
Spy Kids
Overview: Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business."
Genres: Action Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-18
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RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
2008-03-01
RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
Overview: After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized. At the top of his list is finding a job — and getting his vindictive girlfriend to put out again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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The Underneath
1995-04-28
The Underneath
Overview: A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife and her dangerous hoodlum boyfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-28
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Slacker
1991-07-05
Slacker
Overview: Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Clerk
2021-03-17
Clerk
Overview: A look at Kevin Smith's life and career from his childhood in New Jersey, to the day they cemented his footprints at the world famous TCL Chinese Theater, with a flock of famous folks testifying on Silent Bob's behalf!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-17
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Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023-05-01
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Overview: Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin Film Society has grown into a cornerstone of the city's creative community - while remaining true to its edgy, eclectic roots.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
1988-12-31
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
Overview: A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existence to mundane activities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-31
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University, Inc.
1999-09-10
University, Inc.
Overview: The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the USA: the University of Texas at Austin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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Making Of School of Rock
Making Of School of Rock
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Original Language: en
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Side by Side
2012-08-19
Side by Side
Overview: Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-19
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007-02-07
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
Overview: A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Nation,' featuring Linklater and the cast of the movie in rehearsals, shooting, and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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The King of Texas
2008-03-01
The King of Texas
Overview: A documentary on the life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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Before Sunrise
1995-01-27
Before Sunrise
Overview: A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2013-09-03
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
Overview: In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimental films to a budding community of cinephiles. Eventually incorporating as a nonprofit, the newly branded Austin Film Society raised enough money to fly in their first out-of-town filmmaker: James Benning. Accepting the invitation, Benning met Linklater and the two began to develop a personal and intellectual bond, leading to many future encounters. Starting in the 1960s, Benning had been creating low budget films mostly on his own, while Linklater had just begun to craft his first shorts. The filmmakers have remained close even as their careers have diverged. After the cult success of Slacker, Linklater went on to make films with Hollywood support. Benning, meanwhile, has stayed close to his roots and is mainly an unknown figure in mainstream film culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-03
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025-03-08
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Overview: Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007-06-24
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
Overview: A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-06-24
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015-09-04
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Overview: Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-04
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Clemente
2024-03-14
Clemente
Overview: An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-14
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2025-03-08
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Overview: Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-08
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Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
2004-08-17
Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
Overview: A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes, Joe Carnahan, Richard Linklater, Antoine Fuqua and Frank Darabont are interviewed about the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Richard Linklater Presents: L’Argent
2015-04-15
Richard Linklater Presents: L’Argent
Overview: Richard Linklater discusses a dark moral tale of Robert Bresson called "L'Argent."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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Richard Linklater Presents: Blue Velvet
2015-04-20
Richard Linklater Presents: Blue Velvet
Overview: AFS artistic director Richard Linklater & Associate Director Holly Herrick introduce and discuss Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-20
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Richard Linklater Presents: Pickpocket
2016-06-01
Richard Linklater Presents: Pickpocket
Overview: Richard Linklater hosts a screening of Bresson’s PICKPOCKET in honor of AFS’ 30th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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American Prince
2009-03-01
American Prince
Overview: After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Making Dazed
2005-03-01
Making Dazed
Overview: This documentary reunites the cast of the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused", and features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film. A decade after the hit comedy's release, director Richard Linklater reunited the cast -- Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey and Adam Goldberg -- to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the film that helped launch their careers. Now you can watch the cast look back on the movie that changed their lives and on the decade that has passed since.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-01
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016-08-05
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
Overview: Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his warm reception on the awards circuit. Long before he directed Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s intense desire to create fueled his work outside the Hollywood system. Rather than leave Texas, he chose to collaborate with like-minded artists crafting modest, low-budget films in a DIY style. His ability to showcase realistic characters and tell honest stories was evident from his films, and others soon took notice of his raw talent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996-12-20
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Overview: Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Great Directors
2009-05-19
Great Directors
Overview: Features conversations with ten 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. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-19
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The Space in Between
2017-02-28
The Space in Between
Overview: A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-28
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At Sundance
1995-01-01
At Sundance
Overview: A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Letters to Thomas
2000-12-31
Letters to Thomas
Overview: From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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After Before
2017-02-28
After Before
Overview: A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-28
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Blaze
2018-08-17
Blaze
Overview: Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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More Human Than Human
2018-03-10
More Human Than Human
Overview: Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”. Inspired by Brian Christian’s study The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive, the filmmakers set out on an international investigation highlighting the effects of AI - scenes from our daily lives destructive and constructive.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-10
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Also Starring Austin
2018-05-05
Also Starring Austin
Overview: ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique, enduring culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-05
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Scotch and Milk
1998-04-17
Scotch and Milk
Overview: A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950's loses himself in booze and night clubbing amongst similar other men. Meanwhile he pines for the woman he really loves, but is incapable of establishing a meaningful relationship with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-17
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J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
2019-03-10
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
Overview: What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated by the rising consumer-driven culture, out-of-work pals Douglass St. Clair Smith and Steve Wilcox decide to turn their conservative southern ideology on its head and invent a new religion all their own. Spurred on by the overreach of religion and zealous televangelists of the day, the pair concoct religious monikers (Reverend Ivan Stang and Dr. Philo Drummond), a newly minted prophet (J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), and devise a crusade to expose the conspiracy of normalcy by using humor as the ultimate weapon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-10
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The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006-12-19
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
Overview: A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final version of the movie 'A Scanner Darkly'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-19
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One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006-12-19
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
Overview: A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats featuring cast and crew. Discussed are the origins of the story, parallels the cast and crew sees to the goings-on in today's world, and adapting the story for film, modern audiences, and its unique look.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-19
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Crítico
2008-01-22
Crítico
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014-12-12
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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Another Day at the Office
2019-11-25
Another Day at the Office
Overview: A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-25
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North on Evers
1992-01-01
North on Evers
Overview: In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of contemporary America. In many ways, this recent film is a departure of Benning’s earlier films which are characterized, at times, by extremely long, carefully planned takes and a minimal narrative approach. In NORTH ON EVERS, the shots are kept short with a narrative that is direct and detailed, like a diary or a long series of postcards to a friend. What this work shares with the other films is a dry wit and a deep interest in the American social landscape.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Waking Life
2001-10-19
Waking Life
Overview: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-19
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21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014-11-07
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Overview: A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture; an analysis of his style and motivations, through the funny and moving testimonies of close friends and collaborators, actors and other filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Chelsea Walls
2001-09-21
Chelsea Walls
Overview: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009-03-01
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
Overview: The story of American film criticism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Twelve Years
2015-01-06
Twelve Years
Overview: This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-06
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Bernie
2012-04-27
Bernie
Overview: In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Linklater: On Cinema and Time
2013-12-04
Linklater: On Cinema and Time
Overview: If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their DNA, as ongoing conversations with cinema, which is to say, with time itself. A visual essay produced by Sight and Sound.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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The Hottest State
2006-09-02
The Hottest State
Overview: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-02
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