Movies written by Richard Linklater

• Before Sunset

  9

  I have watched this movie twice, the latest being on 23 November 2008.

  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 twice, the latest being on 23 November 2008.

  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.

• 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.

• 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.