{"id":119223,"date":"2025-07-30T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=119223"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:52:35","slug":"happy-birthday-richard-linklater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=119223","title":{"rendered":"“I’ve never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.” — Richard Linklater"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRichard Linklater, at Ebertfest 2013, presenting “Bernie.” Photo by yours truly.<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s his birthday today. One of my favorite contemporary filmmakers (if not my favorite?) <\/p>\n

Here’s my essay on Movie Mezzanine: Time After Time: Looking Back at “Before Sunrise”<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here’s my review of Everybody Wants Some<\/i><\/a> on Rogerebert.com.<\/p>\n

Here’s my review of Boyhood<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s my post on Bernie<\/i> from Ebertfest 2013<\/a>, with Richard Linklater in attendance and Jack Black calling in (a storm had wreaked havoc on his flight to O’Hare and he couldn’t get there in time: “I’m so sorry I can’t be there with you guys!” he moaned over the loudspeaker.)<\/p>\n

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It is my belief that of all the Linklater films, in the future, when we are all ashes and dust, School of Rock<\/i> will be the last one standing. It will outlive them all. I love the clips of the School of Rock<\/i> 10-year reunion in Austin, with Jack Black and all the “kids”, now all grown up, giving a concert (Richard Linklater in attendance, seen in the crowd in some of the clips). <\/p>\n

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