Richard Linklater

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke

Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey must risk everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey

When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

Dir. Kent Jones · With Bob Balaban, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman

A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman

Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire – along the way reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Giovanni Ribisi, Steve Zahn, Amie Carey

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Milo Coy, Jack Black, Lee Eddy

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes

Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden

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.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson

The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Dir. Richard Linklater · With Greg Kinnear, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano