Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have ...included the sci-fi noir A Scanner Darkly, the socially conscious Fast Food Nation, the kid-friendly The School of Rock, the teen ensemble Dazed and Confused, and the twin romances Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Yet throughout his varied career spanning two decades, Linklater has maintained a sense of integrity while working within a broad range of budgets, genres, and subject matters._x000B__x000B_Identifying a critical commonality among so much variation, David T. Johnson analyzes Linklater's preoccupation with the concept of time in many of his films, focusing on its many forms and aspects: the subjective experience of time and the often explicit, self-aware ways that characters discuss that experience; time and memory, and the ways that characters negotiate memory in the present; the moments of adolescence and early adulthood as crucial moments in time; the relationship between time and narrative in film; and how cinema, itself, may be becoming antiquated. While Linklater's focus on temporality often involves a celebration of the present that is not divorced from the past and future, Johnson argues that this attendance to the present also includes an ongoing critique of modern American culture. Crucially filling a gap in critical studies of this American director, the volume concludes with an interview with Linklater discussing his career.
FromSlacker(1991), a foundational work of independent American cinema, to theBeforetrilogy, Richard Linklater's critically acclaimed films and aesthetic ambition have earned him a place as one of the ...most important contemporary directors. In this second edition ofThe Cinema of Richard Linklater, Rob Stone shows how Linklater's latest films have redefined our understanding of his work. He offers critical discussions and analysis of all of Linklater's films, includingBefore Midnight(2013) andEverybody Wants Some!!(2016), as well as new interviews with Linklater and a chapter onBoyhood(2014), hailed as one of the best films of the twenty-first century.Stone explores the theoretical, practical, contextual, and metaphysical elements in Linklater's filmography, especially his experimentation with cinematic representations of time and growth. He demonstrates that fanciful lives and lucid dreams are as central as alternative notions of America and time to Linklater's films. Stone also considers Linklater's collaborative working practices, his deployment of such techniques as rotoscoping, and his innovative distribution strategies. Thoroughly revised, updated, and extended, the book includes analysis of all of Linklater's films, includingDazed and Confused(1993),Waking Life(2011), andA Scanner Darkly(2006) as well as his documentaries, short films, and side projects.
FromSlacker(1991) toThe School of Rock(2003), fromBefore Sunrise(1995) toBefore Sunset(2004), from the walking and talking of his no/low-budget American independent films to conversing with the ...philosophical traditions of the European art house, Richard Linklater's films are some of the most critical, political, and spiritual achievements of contemporary world cinema. Examinations of Linklater's collaborative working practices and deployment of rotoscoping and innovative distribution strategies all feature in this book, which aspires to walk and talk with the filmmaker and his films. Informed by a series of original interviews with the artist, in both his hometown and frequent film location of Austin, Texas, this study of the director who madeDazed and Confused(1993),A Scanner Darkly(2006), andBernie(2011) explores the theoretical, practical, contextual, and metaphysical elements of these works along with his documentaries and side-projects and finds fanciful lives and lucid dreams have as much to do with his work as generally alternative notions of America, contemporary society, cinema, and time.
Last Flag Flying VandenBosch, Jim
The Gerontologist,
12/2020, Letnik:
60, Številka:
8
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
Information on the film Last Flag Flying directed by Richard Linklater is presented. Last Flag Flying takes place in 2003--the year that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was captured and sentenced to ...hang. The film opens with Vietnam War veteran Larry "Doc" Shepherd (Steve Carell) walking into a nearly empty bar on a rainy night.
Boyhood: A Guide for Parents Knopf, Alison
The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter,
03/2015, Letnik:
31, Številka:
S3
Journal Article, Newsletter
Odprti dostop
Since the movie Boyhood came out almost a year ago, many film critics have given this wonderful coming‐of‐age story glowing reviews. And many parents have discussed it, between themselves, on social ...media, and on blogs, saying that its slice‐of‐life reality resonated with their own experiences. The movie has an R rating (no one under 17 allowed without a parent), which is likely to discourage many parents from bringing their children to see it, but there is good reason for families to see this movie, and to see it together.
Evert Verhagen Windt, Johann
British journal of sports medicine,
08/2017, Letnik:
51, Številka:
16
Journal Article
Recenzirano
How do you relax? I relax with Nina Simone on the stereo, my book in my hand, my comfortable couch and fighting with my girlfriend for the best spot on the couch. What attributes or skills does Evert ...bring to a team? Besides the obvious for someone of his calibre (intelligence, hard work, etc) he has a healthy dose of creativity and an unparalleled level of efficiency. The only thing I have ever seen him come close to failing is (1) Surfing (although he may blame the teacher!) and (2) getting his hair wet in the Cape Town ocean, which was about 11°C at the time! ...the best meetings with Evert take place in his 'happy place': so it is best to get him up a mountain or find him some good beer or wines (luckily we have no short supply of these in Cape Town!). Making sport and physical activity healthy for all. @EvertVerhagen shows how to implement sports safety to make sport #LifeLongFun. Follow-up: Listen to professor Verhagen discuss ankle sprains and rehabilitation, the topic of his PhD research, on this BJSM podcast- http://tinyurl.com/jp5xtpk Listen to professor Verhagen speak to the future of injury prevention through technological developments...
The present article analyzes an audiovisual experiment presented in Vimeo during the lockdown in 2020. The aim of this experiment consisted of reinterpreting the so called Kuleshov effect in the ...context of a social media, by means of an updating of this revolutionary form of film editing. This video can be seen as a sequel to Richard Linklaters trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013). Rob Stones editing of a previous footage shows the trilogy protagonists, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, recreating the scene in the record booth from Before Sunrise on a videocall during lockdown in 2020. Thus, we would like to analyze the logic-semantic connections between the title of this video, Before the End, and this audiovisual fiction. On the other hand, it is also our intention to show how hybridism and intermediality can heighten our aesthetic and sensorial experience.
This is a reading of the film Waking Life (2001) in the framework of the Indic philosophy of ‘Vedanta,’ more specifically the ‘Advaita’ or the non-dual school of Vedanta. The film’s narrative is ...constructed out of the protagonist’s dreamscapes. The itinerant protagonist moves through conversations within his dreams, trying to make sense of his ‘wake walking’ situation. These conversations take the form of a more significant philosophical reflection upon the conscious life of humans. In this paper, I analyze some of these conversations and discussions from the Advaita point of view to affirm the film’s orientation towards a spiritual and metaphysical reflection on human life.
This article examines the Kierkegaardian existentialism set in motion by Richard Linklater's Before trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013). In doing so, it ...asserts the efficacy of cinema as a medium of existential import, one that is particularly suited to give form to Søren Kierkegaard's project. The identification of three existential stages of life – the aesthetic, ethical, and religious – is perhaps Kierkegaard's most notable contribution to philosophy. This article contends that Linklater's aesthetic strategy – namely, his distinctive use of long dialogic takes and open endings – grapples with these existential categories: the aesthetic and ethical existence-spheres, as well as the border zone of irony that rests between them. By mapping the shifting utility of the long take and open endings throughout the trilogy, the article charts the differing existential states of the trilogy's enduring couple, Jesse and Céline, as well as the ensuing complications that arise from their clash. In particular, the Before trilogy demonstrates the difficulty of reconciling aesthetic desire and ethical responsibility. Focusing on this dilemma, the article goes on to discuss how the differing existential states of Jesse and Céline prevent a proper appropriation of the ethical requirement into their lives, and that this existential disparity is what eventually surfaces the dysfunction of their romantic union.
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