RICHARD LINKLATER

just hoping he doesn't get Vampire Weekend to cover this in Limpet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sItfoiWpnb8

it took a couple whom I had fallen in love with in the previous two movies and transformed them into a nasty, carping, shallow pair of self-loathing losers I would hate to spend lunch with

I thought it was pretty great for this very reason: it showed them at their worst. Relationships are not all poetry and Paris and soulful gazing into each other's eyes. Any relationship that's lasted for any length of time has probably been through a knock-down-drag-out, vicious, petty fight that leaves no one looking good. This is definitely a horror movie for grown-ups. I had that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach each time I could see the fight was going to take another turn for the worse.

Agreed on all of that. Seems petty for those who would accuse the first two movies of being idealized romantic nonsense to then get miffed when the third movie shatters that illusion.

yeah obv I don't agree with him about the first two, this just amped up the unbearable.

I dislike Godard's Contempt for similar reasons, but it's prettier and has Michel Piccoli in Hawke's place.

I dig SoR.

also ugh at the "update and yuppify Voyage to Italy" line

I thought Before Midnight was sloppily choreographed and amateurishly written, particularly the vaunted dinner scene.

Bad News Bears is really not that bad. It's not great (it's basically Bad Santa pt 2) but its hardly as terrible as watching Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy philosophize

my objection to BNB is, of course, remaking a deathless classic.

same here. the original has a lack of sentimentality/presence of humanity balance that's tricky to pull off and probably not even attempted in two thousand whatever. plus we've seen what happens when ppl try to remake the bad news bears - they go to houston, they go to japan, they end up on television.

I thought Before Midnight was sloppily choreographed and amateurishly written, particularly the vaunted dinner scene.

The dinner scene kinda sucked. I agree with you there. I was about to write the whole thing off until the fight started.

Dinner scene was tough, but established everyone (incl. leads) as more fascinated with the idea of being in a relationship than with actually being in a relationship, wrapping in stand-ins for fresh-in-love version of Hawke-Delpy.

I'd probably view the dinner scene a bit differently now, knowing what comes after it. Not curious enough to rewatch though.

the objective blankness of that young couple - and how irrelevant this blankness is to our response to them - felt so smart, acute

My opinion, a bit influenced by Robin Wood, hasn't changed much since early '95: Delpy's irritations are charming because they're the product of a restless curiosity; Hawke is a manchild who reeks of BO.

Linklater can't choose between them, a point on which the whole edifice rests.

Or maybe everything just gets worse with age?

Ebert otm re BNB
"The movie is like a merger of (Thornton's) ugly drunk in Bad Santa and his football coach in Friday Night Lights, yet (he) doesn't recycle from either movie; he modulates the manic anger of the Santa and the intensity of the coach and produces a morose loser who we like better than he likes himself."

so pumped for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-mbHXyWX4

Anticipating Linklater's "Boyhood"

ah the quotes made it not turn up in search, thanks

http://www.indiewire.com/article/richard-linklater-invites-convicted-murderer-and-subject-of-his-film-bernie-to-live-with-him-after-early-release

I half-watched Bernie on Netflix this past weekend. I'll have to give it a second try when I'm not so sleepy, because from what I could tell that's the best role Jack Black has ever had.

it's pretty good. my first exposure to the McConnaissance

on the bright side the guy is probably not much like Jack Black

Amid the Boyhood sensation, Anthology Film Archives in NYC is debuting the dual documentary about RL and a/g director James Benning, and films by both, including Linklater's pre-Slacker feature and his doc about the UT baseball coach.

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/42919

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=07&year=2014#showing-42910

Linklater's pre-Slacker feature

This is on the Criterion Slacker set -- it's a slog.

(Though it makes a fair case for him as the mumblecore godfather.)

I know I've had that set out of the library years ago; probably have seen it and forgot it then.

Linklater-related fare here: https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/double-play

For Londoners.

parsing the similarities between It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books and The Newton Boys

http://www.filmcomment.com/entry/the-newton-boys-and-its-impossible-to-learn-to-plow-by-reading-bo

Intriguing:
http://thefilmstage.com/news/richard-linklater-says-thats-what-im-talking-about-picks-up-where-boyhood-ends/

how about we fucking release subUrbia on DVD or Blu-Ray, how about THAT??

I've assumed Manhood/Adulthood or whatever was inevitable

Boyhood was small-g great, of course and inevitably, and I could have happily just kept watching (especially when it was just about to float right up my canyon (i also loved the road trip segment and its what i took to be a homage to stephen shore for the budding young photog) in a way that anything set small-town and/or Texas is never otherwise quite going to do (I did get off on the brief Houston travelogue too), but i thought the episodic nature robbed it a bit of both realism and coherent-package-ness simultaneously, that a good many of the plot developments were contrived (but who cares), and that few of the attempts at era-commentary really went anywhere. so a lot of noise in the data, including the occasional off line-reading from Linklater's often-impressive kid, but certainly a worthwhile experiment overall. i'll add one more carp about how improbably stylishly-good-looking the kid (Coltrane) turned out to be, though not as much as, say, the roommate's stunning girlfriend or anything (Mom a particularly un-Hollywood sex symbol as well, while i'm busy objectifying everything on screen). the riding-bikes party-invite scene stuck with me for some reason - a very short take on his trademark (substitute a train for the alley) offhand back and forth between more passive and active actors (not "actor"s) that resolves in tentative commitment, and the material was both charming and had the rare vague echo of experience for me.

still Sunset/Sunrise over Waking Life for me, though D&C and its too libertarian-disaffected (Texan) "politics" as per upthread, have grown on me over time

i neveer made it to the AFA thing, but realized i have the first one on the Slacker DVD and need to see Ten Skies, if anything, first. still want to see the Linklater doc or two, though.

still have to see The Newton Boys too, though i'm sure i'm not going to like it as much as Rosenbaum does

yeah, he shoulda told that 7-year-old boy not to turn out so darn handsome

probability that randomly-selected not-upper middle-class San Marcos teen turns into gifted visual artist who looks like goyish Dessner brother with hair, makeup, and wardrobe depts, while thrice-divorced Mom of two gets tenure = ...

also the coming home drunk and stoned referenced Mitch's end of night in D&C. any others i missed?

Newton Boys is actually pretty good, although it does feel like the "Director's Downfall" picture it sort of is.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3777-thirty-years-of-the-austin-film-society-an-interview-with-richard-linklater

1. Slacker 2. D&C >>> 3. Tape >>> 4. WL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wue327uQhLM

could be fun, I guess

altho I can't quite shake the feeling that this looks like Linklater making his own "Dazed and Confused reboot"

I love that this is what he follows Boyhood up with.

It's going to be great. Just don't go in with Academy expectations. See it with a bud.

video was removed what was it

this i guess http://www.slashfilm.com/everybody-wants-some-trailer/

it was the trailer for the new apatow movie xp

Since Linklater had a hand in this restoration, I wanted to draw attention to this real good '80s Texas indie:

http://www.lastnightatthealamo.com/the-restoration.html

Screening in Brooklyn tonight, Blu/DVD in a few months. I didn't know or had forgotten that director Eagle Pennell died at 49, homeless and after struggling for years with drugs.

His earlier The Whole Shootin' Match (shot in Austin) is also worth seeking out.