Linklater Dishes to the Onion
Filmmaker, AFS founder, and diehard Austinite Richard Linklater was in Cannes last month to present A Scanner Darkly, the rotoscoped film adaptation of Philip K Dick's dystopic novel, and Fast Food Nation, based on Eric Schlosser's expose on the fast food industry. At the same time, the Criterion Collection -- famous for its fabulous reissues of landmark films from the likes of Fellini, Kubrick, Godard, and Lang -- released a special edition of Dazed and Confused, his early-nineties high-school comedy.
The Onion A.V. Club recently published an interview with Mr. Linklater, in which he discusses everything from digital video and Robert Rodriguez to NSA spying and Slacker, his breakout indie hit about a day in the lives of twenty-something lazy Austinites:
AVC: In your own case, there was a certain level of expectation after Slacker, which was so loose-limbed and experimental. While Dazed And Confused was freeform in its own way, it was more conventional in the style of filmmaking and the sense of humor.RL: Exactly. It was my big studio sell-out movie. But it was also as personal a film as I've ever made. That was the niche I was trying to hit. I knew I had a film in me that was a fun, rock 'n' roll movie, but that was me, from the core. I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
Check it out here.
Tickets are currently on sale for the July 15th screening of A Scanner Darkly with the composer of the film score, Graham Reynolds, performing selections live and in-person.
