Linklater Archive

  • Before Sunrise

    An American man meets a French woman on a train in Europe. They connect and get off together in Vienna where they spend the night walking around the city and talking, making love hours before each is scheduled to depart for home. With that framework, […]

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  • Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’

    Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the bizarre  ‘Rotoscope’ animation technique, (also used in A Scanner Darkly, 2006)  jars the viewer, challenging us to take on the tension between the cartoon fabric […]

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