I love some more Richard Linklater coming-of-age brilliance!!

The buzzed kids in Dazed in Confused did end up going to college. Metaphorically, in the mind of terrific writer and director Richard Linklater, it turns out. And so a quick 23 years after that breakthrough coming-of-age film that drew up the extremely realistic final May 1976 high school days of a group of Texas…

Oh, ‘Boyhood,’ now I’ve been spoiled

How am I ever going to watch a movie that took just a year to film again? Richard Linklater, you’ve spoiled me with “Boyhood.” The director took his time filming the story he wrote about a brother and sister coming of age in Houston. The Texas native, in fact, shot the film over a dozen…

Bernie may live in Richard’s garage

Wait until you hear who the Bernie and Jack are that I’m talking about in the headline. Combing the web for odd and/or interesting news about movieland for the weekly Thursday edition of my Syracuse New Times blog, I discovered on cinemablend.com that famous film-maker Richard Linklater went to court to vouch for convicted murderer…