Tag: Richard Linklater (1-10 of 13)

Apr 22 2013 09:00 AM ET

'Before Midnight' poster: Are Jesse and Celine looking forward or looking back? -- EXCLUSIVE

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When Before Sunrise opened in 1995, it would have been difficult to predict that Richard Linklater’s sweet — but little seen — romance would deliver not one but two sequels. But after Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) promised to reconnect after their chance encounter on a European train, passionate fans demanded to know what became of their romance. With Before Sunset, the two reconnected in Paris and discovered that their chemistry was as strong as ever. And in Before Midnight, which screens tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival and opens in theaters on May 24, we find the couple on vacation in Greece, with their children.

Click below for an exclusive poster for the film, featuring the couple looking out across the Mediterranean. Are they watching the sun set? Is midnight approaching on their storybook romance? READ FULL STORY »

Mar 21 2013 02:00 PM ET

Tribeca Film Festival: Clint Eastwood to headline Tribeca Talks series of chats

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Clint Eastwood, Darren Aronofsky, and Richard Linklater will headline the Tribeca Talks panel discussions at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival. Aronofsky will interview Eastwood as part of the festival’s Directors Series of chats, following the world premiere of Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story. Linklater will sit down with his Before Midnight collaborators, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Tribeca also announced four new innovative movies that will screen during the festival, to be followed by conversations with the filmmakers. They include Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked, whose script was crowd-sourced, and Beyond: Two Souls, an interactive PlayStation3 videogame scheduled for release in October that stars Ellen Page.

Click here for more information about this year’s festival and the Tribeca Talks series:

The Tribeca Talks panel series is open to the public and will take place throughout the Festival, which runs from April 17-28 in New York City.

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Mar 8 2013 06:38 PM ET

Quentin Tarantino pays tribute to 'Dazed and Confused' at the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards

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Last night a bunch of Texas filmmakers and lovers raised a glass in honor of home state greats like Annette O’Toole, Stephen Tobolowsky, Henry Thomas and Robin Wright. But the highlight of the evening was when Richard Linklater and some reunited cast members from the 1993 classic celebration of dumb, enviable teenage fun, Dazed and Confused, won their own Hall of Fame Award. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 6 2013 02:00 PM ET

Tribeca Film Festival announces new Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green films for line-up

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The Tribeca Film Festival announced the second half of its movie slate today with a lineup that includes Emma Roberts in Adult World, Zac Efron in racing-cum-farming drama At Any Price, and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. The releases are in the following categories, which make up the second half of the festival’s feature list: Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings, and Storyscapes, a new category this year to recognize work in transmedia — films the incorporate web-based and cross-platform elements.

The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison, The Crying Game’s Neil Jordan, David Gordon Green, and Mira Nair), behind-the-camera work from actors (A Case of You, from Justin Long’s script, Clark Gregg’s Trust Me), and documentaries about Richard Pryor, Elaine Stritch, and I Got Somethin’ to Tell You, about Moms Mabley — directed by Whoopi Goldberg.

Said Director of Programming Genna Terranova: “The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh.”

The Midnight films are a group of seven international “raucous and rousing” horror films. Meanwhile, the newly-minted Storyscapes features five entries, including The Exquisite Forest (produced by Google and the Tate Modern) which builds upon user-generated animations made at exquisiteforest.com, and Sandy Storyline, an “ever-growing” collection of survivor’s stories using audio, photography, text, and video.

Buzziest of all is Linklater’s trilogy-ending Midnight, which turned viewers into delirious swoons at Sundance with its return to the story of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), soul mates of the heart and head.

The short film program will be announced the week of March 11. Take a look at the full list of selected films after the jump.

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Feb 7 2013 12:24 PM ET

'Before Midnight,' latest from Woody Allen & Pedro Almodovar get release dates

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Fans of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset have spent nine long years yearning to see the next chapter of Celine and Jesse’s story — and this spring, the wait will finally be over.

Statistical research firm Exhibitor Relations revealed via Twitter yesterday that Linklater’s Before Midnight will hit theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 24. That date was confirmed by the movie’s Facebook page. Like the first two films in the series, Midnight stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as a pair of photogenic lovers. It premiered at Sundance in January and will play at Austin’s South by Southwest Film Festival next month as well.

Exhibitor Relations also announced release dates for two more high-profile auteur projects: Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros), starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, and Louis C.K., among others. I’m So Excited comes to New York and L.A. June 28; Blue Jasmine appears in those same cities July 26.

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Jan 26 2013 12:00 PM ET

Sundance 2013: 'Fruitvale,' 'Before Midnight,' and the same-sex sexytime of 'Concussion'

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Before the awards are given out tonight at Sundance 2013, I’ve got three of my own to bestow, to movies that have stayed in my mind in the days since I traded the relatively balmy cold mountain air of Park City, Utah, for the frigid wilds of the Northeast.

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The first award, for The Best Drama Most Likely to Break Your Heart, goes to Fruitvale — which, I’ll wager, will win other, more official awards later today too. This vivid, fast-moving, fired-up story propels forward with truth in its engine: In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, a young Bay Area African-American man named Oscar Grant was killed by a white cop’s bullet at the Fruitvale train station. Grant wasn’t a saint, but he wasn’t a sinner, either — just a guy with a live-in girlfriend and a young daughter, trying to figure out how to do right and stay away from doing wrong.

The high achievement of Fruitvale, by first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler (an African-American son of the Bay area himself ) lies in the way Coogler shapes his story, dramatizing the last day of Grant’s life as a means of conveying character; in the energy and immediacy of the no-nonsense visual style; and in the fine cast he put together. Michael B. Jordan earns his movie-star stripes as Grant; the magnificent Octavia Spencer commands her part of the story as Grant’s mother; Melonie Diaz brings Grant’s girlfriend to full life. I hope Coogler has more stories he feels he needs to tell as urgently as he tells this one. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 25 2013 02:39 PM ET

Sundance 2013: Sony Pictures Classics falls for 'Before Midnight'

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Before Midnight, the third film from Richard Linklater about the alluring romance between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend. The characters initially met on a train bound for Vienna in the 1995 film Before Sunrise, and the reunited nine years later in Paris in the 2004 film Before Sunset. In Before Midnight, the pair is in Greece, wrestling with life and love in their early 40s. READ FULL STORY »

Dec 3 2012 04:00 PM ET

Sundance to premiere 'Lovelace' and Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs biopic

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The Sundance Film Festival will give the world its first look at Amanda Seyfried as a porn star in the bio-pic Lovelace and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in a chronicle of the Apple entrepreneur’s life in jOBS — just two high-profile projects in a packed Premieres section for the indie showcase.

The festival, which runs from Jan. 17-27 in Park City, Utah, already announced its competition lineup and Midnight Movies last week, but this non-competitive group is typically the place where films with celebrity-filled casts and best-known directors debut.

Other titles in today’s announcement include Before Midnight, the third film in the Richard Linklater-directed Ethan Hawke-July Delpy Before Sunrise and Before Sunset series — as well as new films from Steve Carell, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Naomi Watts, Brit Marling, Paul Rudd, and Dakota Fanning. Directors Jane Campion, Park Chan-Wook, and Michael Winterbottom are also bringing their latest projects.

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Nov 3 2012 10:00 AM ET

Richard Linklater jokes about Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, porn for sequel 'Before Midnight'

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There’s something so laid back about Richard Linklater in person, similar to his movies, many of which ooze a certain improv, off-the-cuff quality, such as 1993′s ever-amazing Texas school ride Dazed & Confused, or his romantic films Before Sunrise, in 1995, and Before Sunset, in 2004, both starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke.

It’s no surprise, then, that the director was equally laid back and jokingly coy discussing reuniting with Delpy and Hawke for the sequel Before Midnight, which recently wrapped filming and is now in post-production.

“It was intense. It was like a really intense three week shoot,” said Linklater, while doing a sit-down with EW for his dark comedy Bernie. “I think people who really liked the first two will like this one. They’ll appreciate it.”

In Before Sunrise, Delpy, as Celine, and Hawke, as Jesse, meet in Vienna, and then reunite in Paris in Before Sunset. In Before Midnight, they’re enmeshed with each other in Europe again.

“Julie and Ethan looked at themselves and said, ‘If we’re every going to do it, we better do it now, so it’s the last window we can actually make our porn video,” said Linklater, laughing. “So get ready!”

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Nov 2 2012 09:19 PM ET

Jack Black, Richard Linklater on awards buzz for 'Bernie,' working with Shirley MacLaine -- VIDEO

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Jack Black has the kind of silly, spastic face you definitely don’t forget. In most of his comedies, it stretches into a wide-mouthed deranged grin, as in 2006′s Nacho Libre, or a bug-eyed howl, as in 2003′s music-filled School of Rock, directed by Richard Linklater.

In the dark comedy Bernie, also directed by Linklater, Black takes it down about 12 notches, playing sweet, good-natured but still musical Bernie Tiede, with dark hair and a little mustache, a complete 180 from the parts he usually plays. The performance has landed him praise from critics and a lot of buzz for the upcoming awards season. The character Bernie is based on a real person, a gay mortician who sings in the local church choir and is popular in his small east Texas town of Carthage. He befriends nasty, wealthy, unpopular widow Marjorie Nugent, played by Shirley MacLaine, and ends up killing her. The movie, in theaters earlier this year, is out on DVD and Blu-ray.

Black and Texas native Linklater sat down with EW and talked awards buzz, Black going against his natural instincts as Bernie, and how working with MacLaine, who would impress Black with tales of “old Hollywood,” was a dream. As for the future, Black is quite open to playing similarly against-type roles. “I don’t have any plans for any dark comedies presently, but I’m open to it” Black told EW, stroking his beard. “I like the idea of playing more characters that are far away from myself. That was very gratifying. If you think about what people expect of you, you can get stuck in a rut. I’ll be looking for opportunities to go in different directions.”

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