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.
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.
In recent years, analysts of cinematic ghosts have called for ways of “learning to live with ghosts”; in this paper, I argue that Richard Linklater's Before trilogy—1995's Before Sunrise, 2004's ...Before Sunset, and 2012's Before Midnight—models precisely such a process. I attend to the crucial role of ghosts in sparking and sustaining the romance at the heart of Before, and I argue that Linklater's trilogy is not only ghost-written (relying formally on ghosts) and ghost-ridden (relying narratively on a preponderance of them) but a staging ground for ghost-righting, an active ghosting in the vein of Derrida's spectral ethics. Issues considered include traditional narrative patterning of love and death; ghosts and (dis)embodiment in Western cinema; spectrality in the work of Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes; questions of temporality, duration, and fear of death; romantic historiography; and the intimate politics of Before.
While Vansant's focus on the American context occasionally appears little more than a narrative principle under which to organize the dizzying number of readings she carries out, it can also serve to ...revise older readings. Stuart Walker's 1932 Evenings for Sale, a film in which a wealthy American widow travels to 1920s Vienna in search of operetta-inspired romance and finds herself connected to an erstwhile Austrian aristocrat now working as a sort of gigolo, becomes for Vansant a commentary on the connection between work and dignity. In another particularly strong reading, Vansant shows how Michael Curtiz's 1960 A Breath of Scandal reworks Ferenc Molnárs's play Olympia by tying the discourse around the recently published Kinsey reports together with Cold War rhetoric to tell a story of (nuclear) containment of female sexuality.
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