Deadline reports that fans of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy’s onscreen romance have a great deal to look forward to: Before Midnight, directed by Richard Linklater, has just completed shooting and is entering the market at the Toronto Film Festival for possible distributors to bid on. Read More
One of the many delights of Bernie, the offbeat new comedy by Richard Linklater, is that it is fresh, surprising and funny without going for sitcom punch lines or ridiculous, contrived situations inserted for guffaws. It’s not hilarious. It’s just warm and real enough to keep you smiling and awed at the same time. It is also the only movie I have ever liked Jack Black in, one of the few times Matthew McConaughey, a terrible actor, has ever come anywhere close to giving a tolerable performance, and features Shirley MacLaine’s best role in years. A lot to like here, and I liked it all. Read More
It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.
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Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears, from a screenplay by Mr. Linklater, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is a remake of Michael Ritchie’s The Bad News Bears (1976), which was such a hit in its time that it spawned two additional sequels and a television series, all of which I managed to miss out of a Read More
Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears, from a screenplay by Mr. Linklater, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, is a remake of Michael Ritchie’s The Bad News Bears (1976), which was such a hit in its time that it spawned two additional sequels and a television series, all of which I managed to miss out of a Read More
If you asked me at this point what I thought the best movie of the year was, in my not-so-humble opinion it would have to be Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset . Certainly, there are many reasons why this improvisatory collaboration by Mr. Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke would be my favorite release of the Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
