Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Andrew Scott | Bobby Cannavale | Ethan Hawke | Margaret Qualley | Patrick Kennedy
Kelly says: “In a stage-play-like flow, this elegiac Richard Linklater film follows genius lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) through multiple conversations over the course of one evening. It’s occasionally brutal to watch the disease of alcoholism destroying one of America’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adrien Rouyard | Antoine Besson | Aubry Dullin | Guillaume Marbeck | Zoey Deutch
Diane says: “What a fun movie! One doesn’t have to be a fan of–or even seen! (confidentially, I don’t recall ever seeing it)–Godard’s 1959 BREATHLESS to enjoy and be educated by this re-creation of ‘the making of.’ Helmer Richard Linklater masterfully
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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adria Arjona | Austin Amelio | Glen Powell | Retta | Sanjay Rao
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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