Hit Man (2024)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adria Arjona | Austin Amelio | Glen Powell | Retta | Sanjay Rao
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Glen Powell | Jack Black | Josh Wiggins | Lee Eddy | Zachary Levi
Chris says: “Nostalgia is tricky to pull off–you can all too easily drown in reactionary sentiment or self-importance while going on about the way things used to be. Fortunately, Richard Linklater, who proved he could conjure nostalgia with affection but
Read the review...Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Blake Jenner | Juston Street | Ryan Guzman | Temple Baker | Tyler Hoechlin | Wyatt Russellm Glen Powell
Hilary says: “The soundtrack of EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! ambles between genres as it follows the teammates of the 1980 Texas State University baseball team over the last long weekend before the Fall semester. Music blasts from car radios, nightclub sound
Read the review...Boyhood (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ellar Coltrane | Ethan Hawke | Lorelei Linklater | Nick Krause | Patricia Arquette
Chris says: “When asked what BOYHOOD was about, I stumbled in finding the words for a two-sentence description; having had a few days to mull it over, my response now would be simply, ‘Everything.’ It’s the best way to sum
Read the review...Before Midnight (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Charlotte Prior | Ethan Hawke | Jennifer Prior | Julie Delpy | Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Chris says: “*Minor spoilers ahead* “Though not a flawless film, Richard Linklater’s BEFORE SUNRISE concluded almost perfectly: its open-endedness exuded a lovely power as it revisited all the spaces its two leads Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) inhabited
Read the review...Bernie (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Grant James | Jack Black | Matthew McConaughey | Rick Dial | Shirley MacLaine
Chris says: “This ripped-from-the-headlines tale of a meek funeral director who murders a wealthy, irascible widow is meant to play like ‘Midnight in the garden of small town east Texas’. While Austinite Richard Linklater is the right director for the
Read the review...Me and Orson Welles (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ben Chaplin | Christian McKay | Claire Danes | Eddie Marsan | Kelly Reilly | Zac Efron | Zoe Kazan
Jason says: “At times, it’s a bit hard to grasp that Orson Welles was a sex symbol, once upon a time. Forget the way he ballooned to a size that matched his ego and personality later in life; he did
Read the review...Fast Food Ntaion (2006)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Avril Lavigne | Bobby Cannavale | Catalina Sandino Moreno | Ethan Hawke | Greg Kinnear | Paul Dano | Wilmer Valderrama
Bruce says: “Being a fan of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, I was looking forward to Richard Linklater’s fictionalized version of Schlosser’s multiple exposés of the fast food industry, the Colorado meat packing industry, and the US immigration policies (or
Read the review...Before Sunset (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Ethan Hawke | Julie Delpy
Chris says: “When I first heard that Richard Linklater was making a sequel to BEFORE SUNRISE, I thought, ‘What a terrible idea.’ I remember finding the first film pleasant, but not particularly wanting to sit through it again (whereas I
Read the review...School of Rock (2003)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adam Pascal | Jack Black | Lucas Papaelias | Mike White
Diane says: “SCHOOL OF ROCK is the film that TO BE AND TO HAVE wanted to be! Great opp. to admire Mike White’s eyelashes once again. Only way this movie could have been improved would be to have shot it
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