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Before Sunset, easily.

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Dazed and Confused is one of my favourite movies ever. So, um, yeah.

I haven't seen very many of his films. A Scanner Darkly was extraordinary, though.

I wish they'd release subUrbia out on DVD.

Oh yes. Warners were supposed to have it out last fall.

Linklater came down to Houston last year to introduce a screening of Minnelli's Some Came Running at the MFA. He did a Q & A about the film afterward. After that he signed some autographs and chatted with fans. Nice fellow. There was funny moment during Q & A when this one prick kept asking about A Scanner Darkly and his usage of Keanu Reeves. A real pain in the ass. Linklater finally told him that Keanu was a good guy and easy to work with.

Before Sunrise. Obv.

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Waking Life is a mess, but I love it.

D&C is very good, but I don't really love it.

Before Sunrise is his best and I like it a lot.

Voted Waking Life.

saw part of FFN today. BO RING.

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Waking Life (2001) 4

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nono

The School of Rock (2003) 4

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The School of Rock >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Waking Life

I want to like totally revolt in this poll thread omg

Worthiest winner ever.

most accurate poll results ever

Waking Life is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. (BOGUS is the worst.)

he achieved everything he couldve wanted to with dazed & confused & he'd probably admit as much under influence of truth serum

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oddly

The School of Rock >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Waking Life

Yeah I mean WL is basically this book + bong hit talking points with varying degrees of validity, but its occasionally thought provoking and the animation keeps me interested. One of those "saw it at a particular time in life and should probably have disowned it by now but daaaaaaaaaaamn"

I loved School of Rock. Probably not as much as some of the other films on this list, but I thoroughly enjoyed it none-the-less.

"spiritual sequel" to Dazed?

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007404.html

Not any more... http://www.riskybusinessblog.com/2009/06/an-indie-flm-world-dazed-and-confused.html

The indie-film financing crisis is hitting even indie-film fixtures.

For the past few months, Richard Linklater has been circulating a buzzed-about script, a coming-of-age tale called "That's What I'm Talking About." Industryites who've read it say it's more like "Dazed & Confused" than much of what the director's done of late, though probably a little more on the drama end of the spectrum than the 1993 slacker comedy.

Talent reps had been reading the piece with a number of people in mind for the juicy roles, in a pic that Linklater was also to have directed.

But after months seeking financing, it looks like the movie may have to wait. There were financiers interested, but after seeing the rocky finished-film market, they didn't want to board the project until a distributor had signed on too.

And distributors -- as the market at Cannes and many other places showed -- are disinclined to board a movie at the script stage no matter how good a script it is. That Catch-22 was enough to freeze the project.

"We still think it's very marketable. It's just has to go on the shelf for now," said a rep for the director and his production banner Detour.

And if Linklater has to go on the shelf, what of all the slackers?

anyone seen Me & OW?

I think I mentioned in (one of) the film thread that Zac Efron finally looks rowr.

it is pretty good.

strange that they have a 36 year old playing Welles when he was 22, but he is very good in the role, and I guess there's no harm in emphasizing his presence/knowledge/etc... through the eyes of a 17 year old.

it's aight.

in my mind this looks the same as 'cradle will rock' which looked boring and i did not see

Just about every positive review has claimed it's nothing like Cradle Will Rock and that the movie is what CWR should have been.

it is better than 'cradle'... 'cradle' should just have been better, not more like this necessarily. 'me and orson welles' has very little to do with the politics of the 1930s, by comparison.

a lot of people have said the framing story in which f-ron meets cute with this aspiring new yorker writer is a bit ehhhhh. and they're right, it doesn't quite come off.

very strong supporting cast... may as well just say "needed more kelly reilly" here.

like i said in another thread... it's basically a good kid's film

Which this year does not want for, obv.

ain't nothing wrong with that.

age ain't nothing, et al

How do you make a movie about Orson Welles and not cast the guy who plays Paul Kinsey on Mad Men?

it's about the 22-y-o orson and the kins would have looked too old -- amazed this guy pulled it off tbh. the joseph cotten-looking dude was uncannily joseph cotten-looking.

I didn't think this guy pulled off the age at all, but as I said, I thought it worked.

What about Everett Sloane-looking dude?

it's basically a good kid's film

I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.

Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!

ha i was thinking abt going to see that today since i have the day off

i really dont know which of these id vote for - like the sunset films, slacker and d&c a whole lot for p different reasons

also I realize Canadians are raised differently, but I didn't know "a kid's film" could include a scene where members of the ensemble betting $5 on who will ball the theatre company's secretary first. (Though this certainly would've improved the last half of Up.)

I guess I'm a good kid, then! It doesn't work on as many levels as Topsy-Turvy, tho it was also shot by Dick Pope, but I was generally delighted. McKay's turn works in similar fashion as Streep's Julia Child, and Efron is good.

Recognized the Norman Lloyd character right away (tho the actor looks like Larry Fine), cuz I saw Lloyd describing his '37 role as Cinna the poet at the Film Forum a year ago!

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:09 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i meant it in a good way!

i mean it is based on a kid's book

also ya, as kids we were raised to bet on adults' sexual peccadilloes... sort of an ol'-fashioned way to pass the time during those cold winters

and you had to do it in english AND in french

*makes poutine joke*

well, I'm guessing quite a few changes were made in the adaptation then. This is to some degree a horny 1930s teenager movie.

it's a young man coming-of-age movie—he's like 18, but as a 12-year-old i would have loooooooooved this so much

XPS It's an 'Animated Film' the way Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly were, i.e. live action filmed in real environments and/or a green/blue screen studio with rotoscoping utilized for coloring and building the visuals around the actors. In the latter case, this is a way to do the necessary f/x work without breaking the bank on conventional CGI to pull off the moon stuff, and--perhaps most importantly--recreating the Houston area circa-1969 (especially since 90% of the locations they needed are long gone).

It's rotoscoped.

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I was talking about "Legend of the Rent" in the context of great long single takes in movies--obv there are others more technically and aesthetically impressive but I'm biased toward School of Rock generally and stand in awe of Jack Black's performance there

yeah thats in the special category of long takes that dont call attention to themselves, which i'm almost always more impressed by than long takes out of the I Am Cuba playbook. just rewatched it for the first time since it came out and didnt really notice that it was a single take until a few shots later, was just riding along with his performance and not really noticing the craft at all.

Bullshit.

Richard Linklater pissed at the Academy after it deems Apollo 10 1/2 ineligible for Best Animated Feature https://t.co/MQ5XGHiMk8 pic.twitter.com/iybjVcioAp

— The A.V. Club (@TheAVClub) October 8, 2022

agree with the academy (because it was bad)

Academy’s reason seems to make no sense, though I doubt Linklater is right that it’s masking some other anti-innovation/indies motive. More likely just ignorance and incompetence. Haven’t seen the film but if it was bad they could just not nominate it on the merits

I don't like Linklater, but he's right. Fantasia and Snow White used rotoscoping, there's just no possible way Apollo 10 1/2 isn't 100% an animated film. If it isn't, no CGI-animated film should be allowed in the category either.

Recentish interview. His new one, Hit Man was picked up by Netflix -- I went looking for a trailer and was mixed-up by the trailer for the action trash Hitmen (also 2023) which briefly gave me hope that he gave up curdled nostalgia for a Guy Ritchie knockoff. Oh well.

IMDB upcoming projects (Merrily We Roll Along, "Untitled John Brinkley Biopic", "Untitled Bill Hicks Biopic") continues the long streak of "meh"

Oh come on, that John Brinkley movie could rule!

Otoh, it could also be a DO YOU SEE Trump parallels thing that seemingly every film about a charismatic con man from here on out will be taken as, so...

Last Flag Flying and Where'd You Go, Bernadette were disappointing, Before Midnight is a fine movie but a letdown compared to the previous two Before films. But otherwise, I've really liked everything else.
Bernie, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!! and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (not to mention nearly every feature from the '90s and '00s)...I think they're all really good to great. Looking forward to Hit Man.

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! is so underrated

^^It's become one of my comfort movies.

Otoh, it could also be a DO YOU SEE Trump parallels thing that seemingly every film about a charismatic con man from here on out will be taken as, so...

That was my immediate thought. I never saw Bernie, but Boyhood, Apollo 10 1/2, and Where'd You Go, Bernadette put me off. I did like Before Midnight, but I was ready for the two of them to turn on each other.

Before Midnight is dreadful, and I loved the first two.

Otherwise I more or less endorse his career moves.

That Bernadette one is dogshit, just the worst kind of DTV slop