Movies directed by Richard Linklater

• Before Sunset

  9

  I have watched this movie three times, the latest being on 20 May 2013.

  It’s nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse’s book tour.

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• Before Sunrise

  8

  I have watched this movie three times, the latest being on 20 May 2013.

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

• Me and Orson Welles

  7

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 13 December 2009.

  A teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar” directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937.

• Tape

  7

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 25 June 2009.

  Three old high school friends pass the time in a Michigan motel room dissecting the painful memories of their high school years.

• Bernie

  6

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 19 January 2013.

  We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?

• A Scanner Darkly

  6

  I have watched this movie twice, the latest being on 10 June 2008.

  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.

• Waking Life

  6

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 13 January 2007.

  A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

• The School of Rock

  6

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 03 December 2006.

  A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band.

• Slacker

  5

  I have watched this movie once, which was on 26 October 2012.

  Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don’t fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another’s lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna’s pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.