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FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #184 - The Films of RICHARD LINKLATER
THE FAMOUS DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #184 - The Films of RICHARD LINKLATER
Rank ‘em, rate ‘em, review ‘em or whatever.
RICHARD LINKLATER
Fast Food Nation (2006)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Bad News Bears (2005)
Before Sunset (2004)
$5.15/Hr. (2004) (TV)
The School of Rock (2003)
Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)
Tape (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
The Newton Boys (1998)
SubUrbia (1996)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Slacker (1991)
Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991) (V)
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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07-10-2005, 08:14 AM
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Seen 5
* Own 1
Fast Food Nation (2006)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)  
Bad News Bears (2005)
Before Sunset (2004)
$5.15/Hr. (2004) (TV)
The School of Rock (2003)
Live From Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)
Tape (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
The Newton Boys (1998)
SubUrbia (1996)
Before Sunrise (1995)
* Dazed and Confused (1993)
Slacker (1991)
Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991) (V)
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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07-10-2005, 08:18 AM
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RICHARD LINKATER
Seen: 3
Like: 0
Own: 0
Rank order:
The School of Rock (2003)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Slacker (1991)
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
The Lakers may have sucked this year, but at least they didn't suck as much as the Spurs.
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07-10-2005, 11:12 AM
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1. School of Rock - A-
2. Tape - B+
3. Waking Life - B-
4. Dazed and Confused - C+
5. A Scanner Darkly - C+
6. Slacker - D
7. Bad News Bears - D
Own: 0
One of these days I'll do a Before Sunrise/After Sunset rental.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
Definitely, Maybe - C+ / Shanghai Express - B+
Persepolis - B+ / The Life of Oharu - B
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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07-10-2005, 12:39 PM
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4. Dazed and Confused - C+
5. Slacker - D |
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
The Lakers may have sucked this year, but at least they didn't suck as much as the Spurs.
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07-10-2005, 02:11 PM
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My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984,W.D. Richter) 2/5, 20 Centimeters (2005,Ramón Salazar) 3/5, Early Summer (1951,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Late Spring (1949,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, A Story of Floating Weeds (1934,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Passing Fancy (1933,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, I Was Born, But... (1932,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, Tokyo Chorus (1931,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Phenomena (1985,Dario Argento) 3/5, 49 Up (2005,Michael Apted) 5/5, Control (2007,Anton Corbijn) 4/5, Pizza (2005,Mark Christopher) 3/5, The Cut Ups (1966,Antony Balch) 3/5, Towers Open Fire (1963,Antony Balch) 2/5, Secrets of Sex (1970,Antony Balch) 2/5
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07-10-2005, 03:41 PM
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Ranking:
1. Before Sunset
2. Before Sunrise
3. School of Rock
4. Tape
5. Waking Life
6. A Scanner Darkly
7. The Bad News Bears
8. Slacker
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07-11-2005, 09:51 AM
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I didn't hate either of them, but found D&C to be an ok but generally unfunny comedy and Slacker to be dreadfully boring.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
Definitely, Maybe - C+ / Shanghai Express - B+
Persepolis - B+ / The Life of Oharu - B
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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07-11-2005, 01:10 PM
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Linklater's my favorite of the first wave of American Indie directors of the 90s, and these are my favorite of his films in order of preference:
Before Sunset - best film of its year IMO; and to think I'd always wished for an American Eric Rohmer.
Slacker - for me, this is the one that really started it all (that is, not "Sex lies and videotape"). I was an undergraduate in Texas when this film was made/premiered and so it's something of a personal sociological tract for me, not unlike a filmed college yearbook. It distills those times and that sense of place to their very essence - put it in the time capsule should anyone else ever care to know. I'd been placing "Slacker" at the top of my list in the many "What movie should Criterion release next?" threads over the years, but I never expected a release that was as amazing and comprehensive as the one we finally got. Keep your Soderberghs and Kevin Smiths, but leave me the Linklater!
Dazed and Confused - I sorta hesitate to place this one so high on the list, given that Slacker, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, and Waking Life are the key films in Linklater's ouevre IMO. It rates as great mainstream entertainment a la "School of Rock", but it also falls somewhat within the context of the auteur-autobiography that the other films I mention reflect so well. And since I also went to high school in Texas (though in the early to mid-80s rather than the 1970s), this film also has something of a personal connection for me, and really works the nostalgia gland in acceptably unsentimental ways though not to the same extent as "Slacker".
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