Screen Talk: Richard Linklater

Few filmmakers have been as prolific, prodigious and endlessly inventive as Richard Linklater. His work has ranged from playful engagement with Hollywood genres and mind-melding animation to low-budget indie dramas and sumptuous period pieces. He has surveyed the vicissitudes of Gen X life, the foibles of parenthood, the role of art in life and the nature of relationships as they develop over time. From the experimentation of Slacker, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly and Boyhood, and the joyful period dramas Dazed and Confused, Me and Orson Welles and Everybody Wants Some to the comedies School of Rock, Bad News Bears and Hit Man and the beloved Before trilogy, Linklater has never failed to engage, move and entertain. A director who can seemingly turn his hand to any genre or style and make it his own, his is one of the richest and most rewarding bodies of film work of the last three decades.

Ian Haydn Smith

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