Dostoyevsky Wannabe: “Who’s ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?”
Has Faith in Groups: “That's what I hate: When you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.”
Slacker does not try to develop its characters or adhere to any traditional narrative structure, and that’s the…
Horrible Letterboxd year out of me but I would never miss out on an opportunity to comment on a Linklater film.
He’s so awesome. This movie rules. I want 1000 more RL films just like this.
And I loved this from David Marchese’s NYT Magazine piece on him, here’s your parting gift from this “review”:
Q: I read the New Yorker profile of you from around the time of “Boyhood.” It said that there was some point in your life…
Linklater's floor is about as high as any director working today.
This rotoscoped recollection of his Houstonian childhood is highlighted by the narrator's nostalgia for his youth and his enduring appreciation for what the moon landing meant (and still represents) to American culture.
I just can't believe the degree to which this film has flown under-the-radar.
