Movies: Richard Linklater

Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of activists and reveals what is at stake for us all in the struggle for reproductive freedom....

A short film that documents Frankie Kraft, filmmaker and brother of the star of Richard Linklater’s 2005 remake of “Bad News Bears,” Sammi Kane Kraft, years after Sammi is killed in a tragic car accident. Frankie chronicles his search for meaning aft...

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rat...

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 Les Amis Café – a sidewalk café that served almost three decades of eclectic customers and staff. Thro...

A documentary on the life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell....

An ex-philosophy professor-turned-hermit hires a sex-worker to play chess and answer a series of personal questions, but with one caveat: she cannot ask any questions about him....

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks....

A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones....

This videotape was edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society in Austin, Texas from 1987 to 1990. It is Linklater's tribute to the film countdown, used by many pr...

AFS artistic director Richard Linklater & Associate Director Holly Herrick introduce and discuss Lynch’s Blue Velvet....

Richard Linklater hosts a screening of Bresson’s PICKPOCKET in honor of AFS’ 30th anniversary....

Richard Linklater discusses a dark moral tale of Robert Bresson called "L'Argent."...

A conversational “hangout movie” set in the 1830s–1840s, centering around the thinkers who shaped the American Transcendentalist movement....