The Underestimated Richard Linklater

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If you look back to the pioneer directors of the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s, you will come up with the famous names of Quintin Tarantino, Robert Rodreiqs, Kevin Smith, steven sodberg, Jim jatmouch and Richard Linkalter. It might not be in this order, but Richard Linklater, if the name is not missing, always come as the last one, even though he was the main influence on Kevin Smith, “In the beginning, there were always influences like Richard Linklater's Slacker”, (Interviewed by Mark Sells, the reel deal, http://www.oregonherald.com/reviews/mark-sells/index.html). and still that Linklater is one of the most underestimated directors of the contemporary American cinema. In 1991 Linklater made his first masterpiece, “Slacker” which was a tipping point for American independent cinema movement. In this movie which was shot entirely in Austin, Texas the hometown of Linklater with a budget estimated at $23,000 ; Linklater doesn't just influence young filmmakers in america with his low budget movie, he also coined the term “Slacker” which is associated with laziness and apathy, and often used to describe young people. With time, “Slackers” gained popularity and became a classic cult movie to a whole generation, due it's style of nonlinear narrative and its intellectual conversations, which became one of the main elements of Linklater cinema. Before he became a director in 1985, Linklater founded the Austin Film Society, to showcase experimental, foreign, and obscure art cinema. Through the years (AFC) grow up to host Texas Film Hall Of Fame and granting emerging young filmmakers in Texas “The Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund”, and most important than that, (AFC) members included Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, and Quentin Tarantino where they considered in cinema circuit greater than Linklater. So Linklater is not

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