Richard Linklater is one of the famous film directors in the world. This Academy Award-nominated American film director was born on July 30 in 1960. He is also a great screenwriter. Leaving his studies at Sam Houston State University, Richard Linklater went to work in an offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico and while working he read a lot of literature.
Richard’s love for film developed mainly after several visits to a repertory theater in Houston and thereafter, he decided to be a filmmaker. The money he had earned by working at the rig was used for buying camera, projector and some editing equipment. He than moved to Austin
Richard Linklater made many short films. His first feature film was “It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books”. The two other films of Linklater are ‘Detour Filmproduction’ and ‘Slacker’. The films like ‘Dazed and Confused’, ‘Waking Life’, ‘A Scanner Darkly’, ‘School of Rock’, remake of ‘Bad News Bears’, earned him wider recognition as a film director.
In the year 1985, Richard Linklater established the Austin Film Society with Lee Daniel. This made the city of Austin a hub of independent filmmaking. Some of the popular movies of Richard Linklater are Slacker, Tape, Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused, and Before Sunset. For his film ‘Before Sunset’ Richard Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the year 2005.
The career of Richard include the great works like It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1989), Slacker (1991), Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991), Dazed and Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), subUrbia (1996), and The Newton Boys (1998).
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Some other movies are Waking Life (2001), Tape (2001), Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003), School of Rock (2003), Before Sunset (2004), Bad News Bears (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Fast Food Nation (2006).
The two recent films of Richard Linklater project the same animated style and to create this effect he shot and edited these movies into a live-action state. A team of artists were used to 'trace over' individual frames. This technique known as ‘rotoscoping’ gave rise to a distinctive 'semi-real' quality, which was praised by the critics.
Richard Linklater has established himself as a popular and a capable director. This famous film director prefers to stay in Texas. Richard Linklater directed a pilot for HBO in 2003 with Rodney Rothman. His latest film, Fast Food Nation was released in North America on 17th November 2006.
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