The director of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly steeps his third animated outing in nostalgia and whimsy
With Jack Black’s help, the Boyhood director is sending children to space. Cartoon children, that is.
Did Hawke become a better actor under the Boyhood director, or did time just pass?
Time flies when you’re watching movies. Back at the start of 2015, The A.V. Club took the temperature of the…
As the director of films like Boyhood, Richard Linklater is no stranger to the coming of age tale. Typically,…
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In our daily lives, the main function of a car is to get us from point A to point B. But in the world of cinema,…
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Richard Linklater’s autobiographical 2014 film Boyhood drew critical praise for following a young actor (Ellar…
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Last week there was a great disturbance in the cinephile force. The BBC tasked 177 critics from 36 countries to put…
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If there’s one thing that pop culture obsessives love doing, it’s making lists. If there’s another thing they love…
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It comes as no surprise that there are certain patterns in filmmaking, templates that studios follow almost like a…
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For over a century, audiences have been enthralled by the flickering images projected onto cinema screens. Since the…
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It took Richard Linklater two hours and 46 minutes to tell the (slightly fictionalized) story of his own,…
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One of the time honored rituals of the American fast food experience is dropping a nickel or quarter into the…
After years of promising a “spiritual sequel” to his breakout film Dazed And Confused (and Boyhood, while he’s at it)…
Just over a year after Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age story, Boyhood, charmingly ambled its way into theaters, a…
Going in, we knew that this list—totaled up from ballots submitted by 11 A.V. Club staff members and…
This week’s question comes from reader Marco Klaue:
In Scenic Routes, Mike D’Angelo looks at key movie scenes, explaining how they work and what they mean.
Richard Linklater has said that his follow-up to Boyhood, That’s What I’m Talking About, will be a “spiritual…
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Ain’t Hollywood grand? Not the actual neighborhood or whatever, obviously, but the idea of Hollywood as shorthand…