Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, on July 30, 1960. After school, he became a student at Houston Literary University. But before finishing his studies for several years, Richard dropped out and got a job on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. After the termination of the employment contract, Linklater purchased film equipment and a camera for his salary. In 1985, he moved to Austin, where he organized the Detour Filmproduction campaign and the Austin Film Society. In 1987, Richard made more

Richard Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, on July 30, 1960. After school, he became a student at Houston Literary University. But before finishing his studies for several years, Richard dropped out and got a job on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. After the termination of the employment contract, Linklater purchased film equipment and a camera for his salary. In 1985, he moved to Austin, where he organized the Detour Filmproduction campaign and the Austin Film Society.

In 1987, Richard made his first short film, and in 1991 he released his film “The Freeloader”, which was shot with a budget of only $23,000. His second film Before Sunrise, released in 1995 and tells about the chance romantic meeting of students on the train, was continued in 2004 in the film Before Sunset, where the same characters meet again, but after many years.

In 1998, the Newtons western was released, which tells the true story of a gang of four brothers, train robbers and banks. After several successful film premieres, Richard had a break from work, a creative crisis. He only returned to filmmaking in 2001. His films "Tape" and "Awakening Life" They were shot in the original genre using rotoscopy technique. The same effect was applied by Richard Linklater in the work on the film about drug addicts “Disturbance” in 2006, which starred such famous actors as Woody Harrison, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves.

Linklater’s most popular and famous films are Me and Orson Welles "Fast Food Nation," "Bernie," "School of Rock" "Dazed in disarray," "Suburb" . Currently, the director is working on the creation of the documentary “Boyhood”.