The Checklist: Three Reasons This Is a Great Month in Texas Culture
Another dark comedy from Richard Linklater, a report on the ideological battles plaguing public schools, and an exhibition of modern collages by Black artists.
Another dark comedy from Richard Linklater, a report on the ideological battles plaguing public schools, and an exhibition of modern collages by Black artists.
Richard Linklater’s acclaimed new film has a release date.
The light-on-plot, heavy-on-nostalgia animated feature is Linklater at his Linklaterest.
Richard Linklater’s ‘SubUrbia’ is ‘The Last Picture Show’ of the nineties.
He made the low-budget film at a low point in his career—but twenty years later, it stands the test of time.
Richard Linklater’s film belongs in the canon of great Texas cinema.
"We have to do whatever it takes" to preserve the 82-year-old indie cinema, Richard Linklater said in a panel event this week.
Plus, a San Marcos studio that specializes in hand-printed goods, an Austin group supporting women of color, and Richard Linklater’s new animal rescue show.
Melissa Maerz’s new book is a raucous reunion for the cast and crew of the film, whose depiction of the insecurities and thrills of teenage life have made it timeless.
During a live reading on Sunday night, many of the original actors brought the same chemistry that has made the film such a joy to rewatch for 27 years.
Its influence is evident in the way new releases such as ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ and ‘Cobra Kai’ use time in their storytelling.
These themes, which he returns to again and again in his movies, illustrate how he's developed as a filmmaker.
For decades, the Texas director’s movies have celebrated the sort of mundane yet consequential interactions that the coronavirus took from us. He’s still at it, albeit temporarily cut off from the film community he helped build.
Plus, Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise’ and a forgotten moment in Texas rodeo history.
An exhibit at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (France, that is) spotlights the work of a Texas filmmaker too often taken for granted.
Kate Purdy talks about rotoscoping her hometown of San Antonio for the year’s best new TV series.
The ambitious Texas filmmaker announced a two-decade shooting timeline for ‘Merrily We Roll Along.’
The quintessential Austin filmmaker discusses taking an unadaptable book from page to screen.
Ahead of ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ here are a few stars whose careers got some help from the Austin filmmaker.
The adaptation of the 2012 bestseller looks like quirky fun.
Last week, reports indicated that Richard Linklater would be writing, directing, and producing a biography of the late Texas comedian.
Heading into the twenty-fifth anniversary of the film, we heard that straight from Richard Linklater himself.
The Texas Film Commission wants you to hit the road this summer.
El Paso survived the mutant apocalypse, Irving was detached from space and time, and Matt McConaughey showed his dark side.
Dancing with the stars.
Two decades after killing Marjorie Nugent, Bernie Tiede was sentenced this spring for her murder—again. So what do we make of him now?
The Texas treasure is back with his eighteenth film, but we miss the Richard Linklater of the past five years.
Your guide to the Texas-based directors and plots appearing at this year's SXSW Film conference.
Tiede, not Sanders.
Richard Linklater’s masterpiece went from being the overwhelming favorite for the Best Picture and Best Director awards at Sunday’s Academy Awards to being an underdog. How does that happen?
In a new video for PETA that spoofs his own Boyhood, Linklater explains why spending the past thirty years as a vegetarian has been such a great decision for him.
Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and their near-identical path to Oscar glory.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel took home both of the “best picture” awards—and Linklater also took home his first major directing award.
Boyhood is less than a year old, and it’s already one of the great Texas movies. Take a look at how the uniquely made top dog for this year’s award season came to be in this featurette.
The Texas locations in Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" shape the movie, which was filmed over 12 years, as much as the actors. Some could be faked; others, Linklater explains, couldn't.
Richard Linklater on Boyhood, Bernie, and the disappearing indie landscape.
And he'll live in Richard Linklater's garage apartment.
The Austin-based filmmaker preps the release of his 17th and most ambitious movie with a pitch-perfect trailer.
Bernie Tiede, the Carthage man whose story of shooting the town's richest widow inspired a movie, may be walking free next week.
Has Richard Linklater just completed the greatest trilogy in film history?
After months of rumors and anticipation about a possible sequel to "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset," director Richard Linklater just went ahead and made it.
Another month, another acclaimed Matthew McConaughey movie. The Austin actor talks about his new movie Killer Joe, his role in Dazed and Confused, and Richard Linklater with Jon Stewart.
To mark Bernie's release, Slate ranks the entire ouevre of Austin's top auteur. But did they get it right?
Richard Linklater's newest movie received a rollicking hometown reception.
Bernie, which is set in Carthage, opens nationwide on April 27 and stars Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine.
Nearly fifteen years after Richard Linklater and I started talking about turning a Texas Monthly story into a major motion picture, it’s finally hitting the big screen, with a little help from Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine—and a seventy-year-old retired hairdresser from Rusk named Kay Baby Epperson.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Slacker, a couple of dozen filmmakers remake Richard Linklater's indie flick.
From the construction of the state’s first public university in College Station to the swearing in of Governor Rick Perry for a third full term in Austin
Texas high school football may be in decline, but filmmakers still want to play.
The executive editor on what it was like to work with Richard Linklater on Bernie, the star-studded film based on an East Texas murder story.