Richard Linklater

Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from...

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely...

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can...

A look at Kevin Smith's life and career from his childhood in New Jersey, to the day they cemented his footprints at the world famous TCL Chinese...

Founded by Richard Linklater in 1985 as a screening series dedicated to bringing experimental and art cinema to the city of Austin, Texas, the Austin...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the...

Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital...

A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food...

A documentary on the life of Texas filmmaker Eagle Pennell.

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will...

In 1985, former oil rig worker Richard Linklater began a film screening society in Austin, Texas, that aimed to show classic art-house and...

A behind the scenes look at the 2004 film "Before Sunset"

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”),...

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

A group of filmmakers talk about their appreciation for "GoodFellas" (1990) and how it has influenced their work. Jon Favreau, Allan and Albert...

Richard Linklater discusses a dark moral tale of Robert Bresson called "L'Argent."

Richard Linklater hosts a screening of Bresson’s PICKPOCKET in honor of AFS’ 30th anniversary.

AFS artistic director Richard Linklater & Associate Director Holly Herrick introduce and discuss Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

The director/writer and writer/stars of the famous “Before Trilogy” discuss the film series.

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.

This documentary reunites the cast of the 1993 film "Dazed and Confused", and features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film. A...

Highlighting one of the most innovative American directors, this film reveals the path traveled by the auteur from his small-town Texas roots to his...

The making of Before Sunrise

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across...

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes...

A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones.

A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg...

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting...

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence will be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen...

ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and...

A brooding self-styled swinger obsessed with things from the 1950's loses himself in booze and night clubbing amongst similar other men. Meanwhile he...

What started out as an inside joke amongst two self proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas soon becomes much more than they bargained for. Frustrated...

A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the unique animation style featured in the final...

A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats featuring cast and crew. Discussed are the origins of...

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.

In NORTH ON EVERS James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt,...

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years creating films, carving his signature in pop culture;...

This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.

The story of American film criticism.

This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour...

If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs,...

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading...

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a...

This videotape was edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society...

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners,...

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners,...

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can...

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour...

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour...

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6...

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6...

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with...

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with...

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with...

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with...

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

It's just a simple stretch of interviews and images capturing the people who camp out, dope up, drink up, sometimes get naked, and jump into a nearby...

A profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in NCAA history.

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and...

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6...

Poet and performance artist Timothy "Speed" Levitch, who starred in a documentary about his life philosophy in 1998, is back in this meditation on...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners,...

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

Two salesman go to Nevada to exploit nuclear protesters and end up finding something more.

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers...

Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a...

Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of...

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

An immersive documentary about the remarkable life and legacy of MLB icon Roberto Clemente.

When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with...

When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young...

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young...

Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave classic "Breathless".

Dr. John Brinkley is a charlatan who scams his way to fame using fake medicine, populism, and radio. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of...

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will...

Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave classic "Breathless".

When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can...

In Broadway hotspot Sardi's restaurant in 1943, ailing musical theater songwriter Lorenz Hart attempts to save face while celebrating his former...

In Broadway hotspot Sardi's restaurant in 1943, ailing musical theater songwriter Lorenz Hart attempts to save face while celebrating his former...

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can...

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading...

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer...

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks.

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks.

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks.

In ancient Athens, a son is forced to parent his crazy, conservative father-but things get complicated when dad's drunk war buddies come a-knocking.

Three old high school friends meet in a Michigan motel room to dissect painful memories from their past.

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los...

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los...

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.

A day in the life of Rick Linklater, taking in a conference call with some young studio executives and a session with a psychologist.

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the...

Dr. John Brinkley is a charlatan who scams his way to fame using fake medicine, populism, and radio. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of...

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the...

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the...

Dr. John Brinkley is a charlatan who scams his way to fame using fake medicine, populism, and radio. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of...

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los...

The first of two Latinas to represent Texas in Congress, Veronica Escobar, and the only African-American woman to run for city council in Austin in...