An unimpeachable American masterpiece receives a gloriously shaggy and vital 4K upgrade.
Apollo 10½ ultimately suggests that memory distorts and amplifies just as much as it preserves.
The film is a curiously anodyne affair that proposes the distinctly unenlightening idea that the medicine against despair is just a little R&R.
With this fractured story of singer-songwriter Blaze Foley, Ethan Hawke battles the clichés of the musical biopic.
Last Flag Flying is colored by how time reshapes our sense of self, embracing some memories while occluding others.
Linklater’s The Before Trilogy receive stunning 2K transfers and a comprehensive compilation of bonus materials from Criterion.
Criterion showcases Linklater’s longitudinal masterwork with a gorgeous HD transfer and an entire second Blu-ray’s worth of supplements.
The documentary is just more of what we’ve come to expect from director Richard Linklater’s expanded fanverse.
Linklater’s rowdy, sensual party odyssey is accorded a sturdy transfer that’s in dire need of a few evocative extras.
Everybody Wants Some!! luxuriates in a world that’s the platonic ideal of youthful indulgence.
A buoyant tribute, even if the pedigree of the project implies something more paradigm-shifting.
In what’s become an annual tradition, last weekend’s Writers Guild Awards weren’t much of a trial heat for the Oscars.
Even as Boyhood steamrolled the critics groups, even as it dominated the Golden Globes, we had our doubts about its frontrunner status here and in best picture.
This year’s nominees are all, almost conspicuously, united by their deployment of the canniest of distancing effects.
Benning and Linklater are totally comfortable being filmed, yet there’s not a whit of affect to their roundabout conversational divergences.
Linklater’s film is an experiment in time, and one that’s attentive to the audience’s sense of empathy.
The tiny Kino Otok – Isola Cinema Festival makes a very convincing argument for less is more.
Not since Robert Altman’s Nashville has an American film felt as real as life itself.
Tomorrow, the WGA will announce its 2014 award winners, and whichever scribe(s) waltz off with the Original Screenplay prize may do the same on Oscar night.
Few directors are as enamored with the passage of time and the preservation of memory as Richard Linklater.