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Cannes 2023 :: Killers of the Flower Moon :: Martin Scorsese’s Bitterest Crime Epic Martin Scorsese triumphs yet again. A story about greed, corruption, and the mottled soul of a country that was born from the belief that it belonged to anyone callous enough to take it.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Full Winners List This year’s jury, headed by Kristen Stewart, gave
the Golden Bear award to the French documentary “On the Adamant..” The Silver Bear for
Best Lead Performance notably went to child star Sofia Otero for “20,000 Species of Bees.”
Philippe Garrel's “The Plough” was.. |
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BAFTA 2023 :: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Dominates BAFTA Awards With Seven Wins “All Quiet on the Western Front” dominated the BAFTA Awards in London on
Sunday night with a record-breaking seven wins for a film not in the English languag,
including for Best Director.. |
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Berlinale 2023 :: Golshifteh Farahani :: Talks Role Of
Art In Iran “In A Dictatorship Like
Iran, Art Is Essential, It’s Like Oxygen.” Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who is at the
Berlin Film Festival as a member of Kristen Stewart’s jury, has talked passionately about the
importance of art.. |
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SIFF 2023 :: Shirin Ebadi :: Until We Are Free
This is the amazing, at times harrowing,
simply astonishing story of a woman who would never give up, no matter the risks. The first
Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around
the globe.. |
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IFFR 2023 Awards :: 'Le spectre de Boko Haram' and
'Endless Borders' are the victors Cyrielle Raingou’s documentary took home the Tiger Award, whilst Abbas
Amini’s feature won the VPRO Big Screen Award, as the Dutch gathering celebrated its in-
person comeback.. |
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Winners of the 2022 ‘Sepanta Awards’ :: 15th Annual
Iranian Film Festival This year, the
festival presented 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video.. |
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Opinion :: Will Venice Protests Help or Hurt filmmakers
in Iran? As the Venice Film Festival
celebrates Iranian cinema — with four Iranian films screening at the 79th Biennale — back
home in Tehran, Iranian filmmakers and artists are facing the harshest crackdown in
decades.. |
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Biennale Cinema 2022 :: Awards Ceremony
Official Awards of the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Announced by the five international Juries, chaired by Julianne Moore, during the Awards
Ceremony that was held on Saturday 10th September at 7:00 pm..
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Coming: 15th Annual Iranian Film Festival! : San
Francisco: Sep. 17-18 This year, the
festival presents 50 films from Iran, USA, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Greece, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Denmark…, ranging from fiction, documentary, short, animation…. to the
music video. We are happy and proud to.. |
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Linklater, Richard
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Birth name
Richard Stuart Linklater
Date of birth
30 July 1960, Houston, Texas
Mini biography
Richard Linklater (July 30, 1960, Houston, Texas, USA)
Self-taught writer/director Richard Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s.
Typically setting each of his movies during one 24-hour period, Linklater’s work explored what he dubbed “the youth rebellion continuum,” focusing in fine detail on generational rites and mores with rare compassion and understanding while definitively capturing the twenty-something culture of his era through a series of nuanced, illuminating ensemble pieces which introduced any number of talented young actors into the Hollywood firmament.
Born in Houston, TX, in 1960, Linklater suspended his educational career at Sam Houston State University to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”
He subsequently relocated to the state’s capital of Austin, where he founded a film society and began work on his debut short film, 1987’s It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books.
Three years later he released the sprawling Slacker, an insightful, virtually plotless look at ‘90s youth culture that became a favorite on the festival circuit prior to earning vast acclaim at Sundance in 1991.
Upon its commercial release, the movie, made for less than 23,000 dollars, became the subject of considerable mainstream media attention, with the term “slacker” becoming a much-overused catch-all tag employed to affix a name and identity to America’s disaffected youth culture.
Landing with Universal, Linklater next filmed 1993’s Dazed and Confused, a generational update of George Lucas’ American Graffiti set during the last day of high school in 1976.
Despite massive studio interference, the movie maintained Linklater’s unique sensibilities while also proving his ability to work within the confines of more mainstream narrative structures, and went on to become a critical success as well as a cult favorite.
Switching gears, the director traveled to Vienna, Austria, to film 1995’s Before Sunrise, a sweet romantic comedy which bypassed the impressionistic textures of his previous work to place a new focus on character development.
After making a brief voice-over appearance in the animated hit Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Linklater next directed 1997’s SubUrbia, an adaptation of Eric Bogosian’s play of the same name.
Though it bore a strong similarity to Linklater’s previous work, Dazed and Confused and Confused in particular, SubUrbia largely abandoned those films’ improvisational style in favor of a more faithful script interpretation, which garnered mixed notices with critics.
Linklater’s first foray into major-studio filmmaking, The Newton Boys, followed a year later. The true-life, Bonnie and Clyde-esque tale of a group of bank-robbing brothers, it shared little in common with the director’s other films, aside from the casting of Linklater pals Ethan Hawke and Matthew McConaughey as angsty young Texans.
Dumped into the late-summer marketplace, the plodding, straightforward genre film did little to ignite either critical or box-office attention. Recoiling from the Hollywood filmmaking community, Linklater struck out on his own with two micro-budgeted projects, shot on-the-quick in digital video.
The first of these was the most ambitious: Waking Life followed a philosophical, non-narrative structure similar to Slacker, but with all of its characters and conversations enhanced in post-production using an innovative, “rotoscoped” computer animation technique.
The other film, Tape, was a spur-of-the-moment project based on a play brought to Linklater’s attention by Hawke, who enlisted friend Robert Sean Leonard and then-wife Uma Thurman to co-star.
Confining its action to one seedy hotel room, the film allowed Linklater the freedom to experiment with a variety of takes, angles, and points of view he might not have otherwise tried on a more expensive format.
Given warm receptions at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, both films received lauded art-house runs later that year, even as Life was denied a Best Animated Feature nomination by the Academy.
Linklater found himself willing to give Hollywood another try in 2003 when presented with Mike White’s script for School of Rock, a fish-out-of-water comedy starring Jack Black as an unreliable, would-be substitute teacher who commandeers a class of sixth-graders.
Reworking the script and putting his cast through extensive rehearsals, Linklater added an element of off-the-cuff realism to the formula tale, and in the process garnered some of the best reviews, as well as the best box-office returns, of his career.
He followed up that success with Before Sunset, a sequel to Before Sunrise that reunited Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.
The film, full of motifs that have carried through all of Linklater’s best work, earned him a flurry of critical praise and an Oscar nomination for screenwriting.
He attempted to recapture the box-office success of School of Rock with a remake of Michael Ritchie’s The Bad News Bears, although the results were not quite as fruitful either artistically or financially.
In 2006 Linklater had two films at the Cannes Film Festival. His fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s non-fiction book Fast Food Nation competed in the main competition, while his rotoscoped adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (a film that utilized the same technological tools as Waking Life) screened in the directors fortnight. Both films were released later that year in the United Sates. --allmovie
Filmography
Features
1988 It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books 1991 Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (experimental film) 1991 Slacker 1993 Dazed and Confused 1995 Before Sunrise 1996 subUrbia 1998 The Newton Boys 2001 Waking Life 2001 Tape 2003 School of Rock 2004 Before Sunset 2005 Bad News Bears 2006 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Fast Food Nation 2008 Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (documentary) 2008 Me and Orson Welles 2011 Bernie 2013 Before Midnight
Shorts
1985 Woodshock (documentary) 2003 Live from Shiva's Dance Floor 2004 $5.15/hr (TV pilot)
Director - Selected filmography
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Boyhood (2014)
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Before Midnight (2013)
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Bernie (2011)
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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
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Before Sunset (2004)
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School of Rock (2003)
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Waking Life (2001)
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Tape (2001)
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The Newton Boys (1998)
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Before Sunrise (1995)
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Dazed and Confused (1993)
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