Get used to this: ‘Boyhood’ starts piling up awards
Year-end awards lists and best-ofs are starting to be compiled, and it’s a shock to absolutely nobody to see Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” pick up a few trophies. Ellar Coltrane stars...
View ArticleMore awards for “Boyhood” and a making-of featurette
We mentioned last week that readers should get ready for Richard Linklater’s epic “Boyhood” to start racking up awards and hosannas — especially critical awards — as the year draws to a close. Ellar...
View ArticleA look at the SAG nominees
“Boyhood,” directed by Austin’s Richard Linklater, had a good showing Wednesday in the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and that’s important because they’re often indicative of what will happen when the...
View Article‘Boyhood’ takes top honors from Austin critics
“Boyhood,” the 12-year look at the evolution of a boy into a young man by Austin director Richard Linklater, took home the top awards today from the Austin Film Critics Association. “Boyhood” won best...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Boyhood’ star Ethan Hawke talks Tolstoy with Charlie Rose
Austin native Ethan Hawke appeared on “Charlie Rose” last week to talk about “Boyhood,” the Richard Linklater film that has scored him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at this year’s Oscars. In the...
View ArticleTexas Film Hall of Fame Awards honors Wilson, del Toro, others
Robert Rodriguez, Guillermo Del Toro and Danny Trejo walk the red carpet. (Suzanne Cordeiro / For American-Statesman) There aren’t many better ways to start an evening than hearing Mike Judge say, in...
View ArticleRichard Linklater makes Time 100 Most Influential People list
He didn’t walk home with the best director trophy for 2014’s “Boyhood,” but Austin director Richard Linklater joined an elite club Thursday: the Time 100. The magazine’s annual list of the 100 most...
View ArticleRichard Linklater’s ‘spiritual sequel’ to ‘Dazed and Confused’ renamed after...
Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater will follow up his success to Oscar-winning “Boyhood” with a “spiritual sequel” to 1993’s “Dazed and Confused.” Photo by Ralph Barrera The Film Stage recently...
View ArticleLouis Black’s Linklater doc to debut at Sundance Jan. 26
“Richard Linklater – dream is destiny” Austin Chronicle and SXSW co-founder, Louis Black’s début documentary “Richard Linklater – dream is destiny” will première at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 26....
View ArticleHere is your Xmas gift from Richard Linklater: The first trailer for...
BOOM! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q58EeFx1R3c&w=640&h=390] Starring Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, this “spiritual companion” to “Dazed and Confused” makes its world...
View ArticleEthan Hawke joins AFS for special screening of “Before the Devil Knows You’re...
On Feb. 17, Austin Film Society will present a special screening of “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Sidney Lumet’s final feature film starring Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman, complete...
View ArticleLinklater doc getting good reviews at Sundance
The early reviews for “Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny” are coming in … and they’re good. The movie, directed by Louis Black of the Austin Chronicle and Karen Bernstein, had its premiere on...
View ArticleDon Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead,” a Mike Birbiglia comedy and Danny McBride’s...
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead” (Sony Pictures Classics) Mike Birbiglia’s new comedy about an improv group starring Keegan-Michael Key, a feature about Miles Davis and a new HBO series by...
View ArticleSix highlights of the Texas Film Hall of Fame awards dinner
Called “the unofficial kickoff to SXSW” by the sort of folks who call things stuff like that, the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards dinner went down Thursday night at Austin Studios. Items were auctioned,...
View ArticleSXSW Movies: Richard Linklater and cast of ‘Everybody Wants Some’ celebrate...
By Jane Kellogg Murray Austin’s own Richard Linklater kicked off the South by Southwest Film Festival Friday night for the global premiere of Everybody Wants Some — billed as the “spiritual sequel” to...
View ArticleSXSW Film Review: “Everybody Wants Some”
“Everybody Wants Some” As enjoyable as moments in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some” are — and there are plenty in this very well-acted, well-shot, elegantly edited comedy — how you feel about...
View Article‘Everybody Wants Some:’ The jocks are all right
As enjoyable as moments are in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some” — and there are plenty in this very well-acted, well-shot, elegantly edited comedy — how you feel about it by the end might...
View ArticleShirley MacLaine walks the Texas Film Awards red carpet with Richard Linklater
Shirley MacLaine, whose legendary film “Terms of Endearment” was honored with the Star of Texas Award at the Texas Film Awards at Austin Studios Thursday night, had someone special on her arm on the...
View ArticleRichard Linklater adaptation of ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ starring Cate...
Cate Blanchett will star in the Richard Linklater-directed film adaptation of Maria Semple’s bestselling novel, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” — that much we know already. But at the Texas Film Awards in...
View ArticleTen takeaways from “Made in Austin: A Look into Song to Song” at SXSW
Holy cats, there he is: Director Terrence Malick, one of the most private filmmakers of his generation, hanging out on stage with Richard Linklater and Michael Fassbender, the latter a star of...
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