The young and the rest of us – Boyhood review (Sydney Film Festival)

By Simon Miraudo June 7, 2014 Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the bittersweet Boyhood, shooting it piecemeal with actors Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, as well as newcomers Ellar Coltrane and Linklater’s real-life daughter Lorelei. The elders play the divorced parents, and the youngers their children, lugged around Texas as their mother seeks new […]

Continue reading →

Richard Linklater scores Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis for ‘Larry’s Kidney’

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis are set to reteam, though not for a sequel to The Campaign. According to The Wrap, the duo will take the lead roles in Richard Linklater’s upcoming adaptation of Daniel Asa Rose’s reportedly “touching” memoir Larry’s Kidney. Ferrell would play author Daniel Asa Rose, who ventured to China with his cousin […]

Continue reading →

Trailer: Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making ‘Boyhood’

The trailer for Richard Linklater’s outrageously-ambitious, seemingly-very-moving coming-of-age drama Boyhood has arrived. Shot over 12 years, the picture captured the growth of its two central characters, played by Ellar Coltrane and Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei. Ethan Hawke – Linklater’s Before trilogy collaborator – and Patricia Arquette play their parents. The flick arrives in US cinemas this July, with an Australian release to follow sometime […]

Continue reading →

Play It Again – Before Sunset

By Jess Lomas June 19, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]

Continue reading →

Sydney Film Festival – Before Midnight review

By Simon Miraudo June 9, 2013 Lightning just keeps on striking for Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke when it comes to their Before saga; so much so, I’m beginning to suspect them of performing shamanistic rituals in their backyard before embarking on each new instalment. They reunite for the third time in eighteen […]

Continue reading →

Play It Again – Before Sunrise

By Jess Lomas June 5, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]

Continue reading →

Richard Linklater suggests spiritual sequel to Dazed & Confused will shoot this year

Richard Linklater’s long awaited ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed & Confused may start shooting later this year. Linklater revealed during his recent AMA on Reddit that this college ensemble film should enter production soon. For several years this unofficial sequel to Dazed & Confused has been on the cards. It is rumoured to follow a group […]

Continue reading →

Trailer Debut: Before Midnight

The trailer for the highly anticipated Before Midnight is finally here, and it confirms what we’ve all be suspecting: that this film is likely to blow us away. The film, directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, picks up nine years after we left Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) […]

Continue reading →

Hawke and Linklater working on Before Sunset sequel in Greece

Ethan Hawke has confirmed to MTV he is developing a Before Sunset sequel in Greece with director Richard Linklater. Hawke told Indiewire in June that the much-anticipated conclusion to the saga that began with Before Sunrise would shoot in the American summer, yet doubts grew as the months passed with no word on development. He has now […]

Continue reading →

The smiling assassin – Bernie review

Bernie – Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Richard Linklater. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Bernie features a series of talking head interviews with the citizens of Carthage, Texas that are so funny, folksy, and fully-realised I was certain they were fictional. After all, reality is rarely a convincing representation of […]

Continue reading →

Ethan Hawke says the Before Sunset sequel shoots soon

Ethan Hawke has confirmed in an interview with Indiewire that a follow-up to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset will shoot in the American summer. When asked for location specifics, Hawke admitted, “I’ve gotten into trouble, so I’m sworn to secrecy. The biggest change between this one and the last one is the Internet. The first […]

Continue reading →

Hawke, Delpy and Linklater writing Before Sunset sequel

Will we soon get to spend another half-day with Jesse and Celine? Ethan Hawke has talked with Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater about writing a sequel to their classic romantic dramas Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Speaking to French mag AlloCine (thoughtfully translated by Vulture), Hawke revealed that a new Before flick could be written […]

Continue reading →

First look at Jack Black in Bernie

The first images from Jack Black and Richard Linklater’s latest collaboration Bernie (a deliberate reference to Weekend at Bernie’s … we think) have debuted online. They’re coming at you courtesy of Collider.  Black stars as Bernie, a creepy undertaker who commits a terrible crime, yet remains popular in his small Texas town. Shirley MacLaine stars […]

Continue reading →

Jack Black and Richard Linklater remaking Weekend at Bernie’s! Kinda!

OK, that headline is a little misleading. Jack Black and director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) are set to re-team for a black comedy entitled Bernie. According to THR, Black will play the titular mortician, who must convince his fellow townsfolk that the wealthy widow he accidentally killed is still alive. Yes, this sounds a […]

Continue reading →