The best Richard Linklater’s movies

Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater

30/07/1960 (63 años)
Today we present the best Richard Linklater’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Richard Linklater’s movies.
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Spy Kids

Spy Kids
5.6/10
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."

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
6.8/10
  • Genre: AnimationComedy
  • Release: 15/12/1996
  • Character: Tour Bus Driver (voice)
Mike Judge's 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 where they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.

Waking Life

Waking Life
7.7/10
  • Genre: Animation
  • Release: 19/10/2001
  • Character: Pinball Playing Man / Man on Back of Boat
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.

Side by Side

Side by Side
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/08/2012
  • Character: Self
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.

Slacker

Slacker
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/07/1991
  • Character: Should Have Stayed at Bus Station
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.

Bernie

Bernie
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/04/2011
  • Character: Deadbeat Dad (uncredited)
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.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 04/09/2015
  • Character: Himself
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

The Hottest State

The Hottest State
6/10
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

Crítico

Crítico
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/01/2008
  • Character: Himself
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.

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 12/12/2014
  • Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-1985), 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.

The Underneath

The Underneath
6.1/10
Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas to his mother who's starting a new life, to his brother whose driven by old jealousies, and to Rachel—the woman he married and then betrayed with his passion for gambling. Now she's together with Tommy, so Michael devises a plan to get Rachel out from under Tommy's control.

Blaze

Blaze
6.5/10
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

21 Years: Richard Linklater

21 Years: Richard Linklater
6.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 07/11/2014
  • Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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.

Chelsea Walls

Chelsea Walls
4.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/04/2002
  • Character: Crony 2
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.

At Sundance

At Sundance
2.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1995
  • Character: Himself
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.]

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/08/2016
  • Character: Himself
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.

Making Dazed

Making Dazed
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/03/2005
  • Character: Himself
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.

RSO [Registered Sex Offender]

RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/2008
  • Character: Principal Mallard
There may be one thing worse than being a sex offender sent to prison: Being a sex offender released from prison. RSO tells the story of one offender's unlikely rehabilitation.

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/12/2006
  • Character: Himself
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.

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
6.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/03/2009
  • Character: Himself
The story of American film criticism.

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