Directed by Richard Linklater • 2001 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Filmed on digital video within the confines of a motel room with a cast of just three actors, Richard Linklater’s TAPE turns stylistic limitations into gripping psychodrama. In a cheap hotel outside of Lansing, Michigan, Vince (Ethan Hawke, in one of his finest performances), a drug dealer, reunites with his former high school friend Jon (Robert Sean Leonard), a filmmaker whose new work is screening at a local festival. Tensions rise—and accusations fly—when the conversation turns to Vince’s former girlfriend, Amy (Uma Thurman), whose unexpected appearance upends everything.
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2008 • United States
Starring Augie Garrido, Cathy Clark, Roger Clemens
Richard Linklater’s profile of legendary University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, until 2018 the winningest coach in the history of college baseball, goes beyond his remarkable achiev...
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2011 • United States
Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
A stranger-than-fiction true story provides the basis for this arrestingly offbeat black comedy from Richard Linklater. Bernie (a marvelous Jack Black) is a much-loved mortician in sma...
Directed by Gabe Klinger • 2013 • United States
Starring Richard Linklater, James Benning, Sandra Adair
The longtime personal and professional connection between Richard Linklater and revered experimental filmmaker James Benning began in the 1980s, when Linklater programmed Benning’s films at th...
