Richard Linklater

Born: 1960-07-30

Richard Stuart Linklater (/ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. 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 several Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for his work on Before Sunrise. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Linklater, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Placeholder

Before Sunrise

as Man in Shonen Knife T-Shirt Playing Foosball (uncredited)
Released: 1995-01-27

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in...

Movie page

Spy Kids

as Cool Spy
Released: 2001-03-18

Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio...

Movie page

Waking Life

as Pinball Playing Man / Man on Back of Boat
Released: 2001-10-19

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its...

Movie page

Bernie

as Deadbeat Dad (uncredited)
Released: 2012-04-27

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with...

Movie page

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

as Tour Bus Driver (voice)
Released: 1996-12-20

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a...

Movie page

Side by Side

as Self
Released: 2012-08-19

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film....

Movie page

Slacker

as Should Have Stayed at Bus Station
Released: 1991-07-05

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to...

Movie page

The Underneath

as Ember Doorman
Released: 1995-04-28

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble...

Movie page

Hitchcock/Truffaut

as Self
Released: 2015-09-04

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma...

Movie page

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2014-12-12

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible...

Movie page

Blaze

as Oilman 1
Released: 2018-08-17

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

Movie page

The Hottest State

as John Wayne Enthusiast
Released: 2007-06-27

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with...

Movie page

Clerk

as Self
Released: 2021-03-17

A look at Kevin Smith's life and career from his childhood in New Jersey, to the day they...

Movie page

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

as uncredited
Released: 1988-12-31

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones,...

Movie page

21 Years: Richard Linklater

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: 2014-11-07

A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years...

Movie page

Chelsea Walls

as Crony 2
Released: 2001-09-21

This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City,...

Movie page

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

as Self
Released: 2025-03-08

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby...

Movie page

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

as uncredited
Released: 2025-03-08

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby...

Movie page

Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny

as Self
Released: 2016-08-05

Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled...

Movie page

For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

as Self
Released: 2009-03-01

The story of American film criticism.

Movie page

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater

as Self
Released: 2013-09-03

In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin,...

Movie page

RSO [Registered Sex Offender]

as Principal Mallard
Released: 2008-03-01

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization,...

Movie page

Critic

as Self
Released: 2008-01-22

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...

Movie page

Great Directors

as Self
Released: 2009-05-19

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci,...

Movie page

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

as Self
Released: 2007-02-07

A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser...

Movie page

J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius

as Self
Released: 2019-03-10

What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon...

Movie page

Making Dazed

as Self
Released: 2005-03-01

This documentary reunites the cast of the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused", and features...

Movie page

North on Evers

as uncredited
Released: 1992-01-01

In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across...

Movie page

The King of Texas

as Self
Released: 2008-03-01

A documentary on the life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell.

Movie page

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

as Self
Released: 2006-12-19

A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats...

Movie page

Also Starring Austin

as uncredited
Released: 2018-05-05

ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's...

Movie page

Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy

as Self
Released: 2004-08-17

A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has...

Movie page

Twelve Years

as Self
Released: 2015-01-06

This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set...

Movie page

More Human Than Human

as Self
Released: 2018-03-10

Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either...

Movie page

After Before

as Self
Released: 2017-02-28

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts,...

Movie page

Linklater: On Cinema and Time

as Self (voice)
Released: 2013-12-04

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors....

Movie page

Scotch and Milk

as Cab Passenger
Released: 1998-04-17

A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950's loses himself in booze and...

Movie page

Clemente

as Self
Released: 2024-03-14

An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.

Movie page

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

as Self
Released: 2023-05-01

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental...

Movie page

University, Inc.

as Self
Released: 1999-09-10

The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate...

Movie page

At Sundance

as Self
Released: 1995-01-01

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew...

Movie page

American Prince

as Self - Interviewer
Released: 2009-03-01

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American...

Movie page

In the Bathtub of the World

as Self
Released: 2001-04-29

On January 1st, 1999, Caveh Zahedi started a one-year video diary. The idea was to shoot one...

Movie page

The Space in Between

as Self
Released: 2017-02-28

A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the...

Movie page

Another Day at the Office

as Rick
Released: 2019-11-25

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio...

Movie page

Letters to Thomas

as Self
Released: 2000-12-31

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his...

Movie page

The Daily Show

as Self
First aired: 1996-07-22

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

TV Show page

Off Camera with Sam Jones

as Self
First aired: 2014-02-06

Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and...

TV Show page

God Save Texas

as Self
First aired: 2024-02-27

Returning to their hometowns, Texas filmmakers Richard Linklater, Alex Stapleton, and Iliana...

TV Show page

05

as Self
First aired: 2021-08-30

Chronicling the Texas Longhorns' 2005 National Championship football season under Mack Brown.

TV Show page

The Last Movie Stars

as Self
First aired: 2022-07-21

A celebration of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s iconic careers and decades-long partnership....

TV Show page

Directors Talks

as Self
First aired: 2023-09-21

TV Show page

My Generation

as Self
First aired: 2024-10-05

High-profile narrators Forest Whitaker, Ethan Hawke, Kristen Bell, Jenna Ortega and Azul Estrada...

TV Show page