Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater (/ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the Before trilogy of romance films: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003); the adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016); and the romantic comedy Hit Man (2023).
Many of Linklater's films are noted for their loosely structured narratives. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He has received five Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Before Sunrise. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood.
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| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5333 |
| Birthday | 1960-07-30 |
| Place of Birth | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | ريتشارد لينكليتر, 理查德·林克莱特, ริชาร์ด ลินเคลเตอร์, Ричард Линклейтер, リチャード・リンクレイター, 리처드 링클레이터, |
2001
Spy Kids
5.817/3663
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 thei...
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Spy Kids
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2008
RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
5.4/11
After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely uncivilized...
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RSO [Registered Sex Offender]
1995
The Underneath
5.7/86
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...
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The Underneath
1991
Slacker
6.736/331
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can es...
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Slacker
2021
Clerk
6.2/24
A look at Kevin Smith's life and career from his childhood in New Jersey, to the day they cemented his footprints at the world famous TCL Chinese Thea...
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Clerk
2023
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
0/0
Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...
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Art-House America: Austin Film Society
1988
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
5.4/27
A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his existe...
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It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
1999
University, Inc.
0/0
The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the U...
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University, Inc.
Making Of School of Rock
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Making Of School of Rock
2012
Side by Side
7.231/308
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 filmmak...
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Side by Side
2007
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
0/0
A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Natio...
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2008
The King of Texas
6/1
A documentary on the life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell.
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The King of Texas
1995
Before Sunrise
7.971/4581
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conver...
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Before Sunrise
2013
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
6.4/10
In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and experimenta...
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Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
0/0
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2007
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
0/0
A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.
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Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.243/247
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and pu...
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
2025
Clemente
9/3
An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.
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Clemente
2025
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
0/0
Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.
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Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
2004
Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
6.5/2
A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert Hughes...
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Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
2015
Richard Linklater Presents: L’Argent
0/0
Richard Linklater discusses a dark moral tale of Robert Bresson called "L'Argent."
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Richard Linklater Presents: L’Argent
2015
Richard Linklater Presents: Blue Velvet
0/0
AFS artistic director Richard Linklater & Associate Director Holly Herrick introduce and discuss Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
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Richard Linklater Presents: Blue Velvet
2016
Richard Linklater Presents: Pickpocket
0/0
Richard Linklater hosts a screening of Bresson’s PICKPOCKET in honor of AFS’ 30th anniversary.
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Richard Linklater Presents: Pickpocket
2009
American Prince
7/4
After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.
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American Prince
2005
Making Dazed
9/2
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...
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Making Dazed
2016
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
6.795/22
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 w...
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Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
1996
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
6.652/762
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 Ameri...
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
2009
Great Directors
6.059/17
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Vard...
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Great Directors
2017
The Space in Between
8/1
A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones.
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The Space in Between
1995
At Sundance
5.5/4
A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg A...
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At Sundance
2000
Letters to Thomas
0/0
From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.
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Letters to Thomas
2017
After Before
7/2
A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting a...
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After Before
2018
Blaze
6.3/56
Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Wi...
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Blaze
2018
More Human Than Human
5.2/5
Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to human...
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More Human Than Human
2018
Also Starring Austin
7/2
ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and unique,...
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Also Starring Austin
1998
Scotch and Milk
6.2/4
A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950's loses himself in booze and night clubbing amongst similar other men. Meanwhile he...
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Scotch and Milk
2019
J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
5.571/7
What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated...
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J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius
2006
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
7/1
A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final vers...
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The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
8.2/5
A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats featuring cast and crew. Discussed are the origins of t...
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One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2008
Critic
7.9/19
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 20...
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Critic
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
6.5/35
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter,...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2019
Another Day at the Office
5/1
A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.
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Another Day at the Office
1992
North on Evers
7.2/8
In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, a...
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North on Evers
2001
Waking Life
7.478/926
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 participa...
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Waking Life
2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater
6.3/37
A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture;...
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21 Years: Richard Linklater
2001
Chelsea Walls
4.2/24
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.
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Chelsea Walls
2009
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
5.7/15
The story of American film criticism.
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For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2015
Twelve Years
6/1
This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.
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Twelve Years
2012
Bernie
6.573/1014
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...
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Bernie
2013
Linklater: On Cinema and Time
7.1/8
If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’...
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Linklater: On Cinema and Time
2007
The Hottest State
5.415/46
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
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The Hottest State
2001
In the Bathtub of the World
5.5/2
On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one minute each day. This is the result.
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In the Bathtub of the World
2004
... End of Interview!
0/0
Short documentary covering the 2001, 10th anniversary screening of Richard Linklater's 'Slacker' in Austin, TX
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... End of Interview!
2005
Viva Les Amis
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Viva Les Amis looks at one local café as an example of a national trend: The loss of the mom and pop shop. The film explores the 27 year history of Le...
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Viva Les Amis
2004
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
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Ben Lewis spends time with Richard Linklater, the highly-respected director of 'Slacker', 'School of Rock', and 'Before Sunset', along with some of th...
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Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2025
Le making of de Nouvelle Vague
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The making of Nouvelle Vague and the opportunity to make a portrait of Richard Linklater.
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Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
0/0
Behind-the-scenes footage from the film’s production
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Before Sunrise: Behind the Scenes
2005
Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
10/1
The making of Before Sunset.
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Before Sunset: Behind the Scenes
Dazed and Confused: Behind the Scenes
0/0
Behind-the-scenes footage
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