Collections/May 2022

Directed by Richard Linklater

For more than three decades, Richard Linklater has maintained a fierce creative independence—forged in the vibrant alternative scene of Austin, Texas—across boundary-pushing microbudget experiments and major studio projects alike. Selected by the director himself, this tour through his filmography encompasses everything from a loose-limbed 1920s heist romp ( The Newton Boys ) to an animated science-fiction head-trip ( A Scanner Darkly ) to a ripped-from-the-headlines dark comedy ( Bernie ), bringing together unsung gems and modern classics. Though his work zigs and zags unpredictably, it’s united by an abiding fascination with the complexities of human connection and the inexorability of time’s passage—whether it be across one day (as in his Gen X anthem Slacker ) or more than a decade (as in his twelve-years-in-the-making magnum opus Boyhood ). Mixing features, rare short films, documentaries, and experimental works, this personal selection of Linklateriana reveals the remarkable breadth and depth of one of contemporary cinema’s most restlessly innovative voices.

17 films — 2 on the Channel, 15 unavailable