Richard Linklater Movies

Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a...

ALSO STARRING AUSTIN uses scenes from locally shot films as a lens to explore a community's rapidly changing built and natural environment and...

Dr. John Brinkley is a charlatan who scams his way to fame using fake medicine, populism, and radio. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of...

Both cautionary tale and rallying cry, Shouting Down Midnight recounts how the Wendy Davis filibuster of 2013 galvanized a new generation of...

Short documentary covering the 2001, 10th anniversary screening of Richard Linklater's 'Slacker' in Austin, TX

After being forgotten for 30 years, the filmmaker revisits Scorsese's lost documentary 'American Boy' and it's raconteur subject, Steven Prince.

Viva Les Amis looks at one local café as an example of a national trend: The loss of the mom and pop shop. The film explores the 27 year...

When three former classmates reunite after 15 years, a buried secret resurfaces forcing them to confront the past, each other, and the silence around...

Flame-out writer Eddy O’Neill battles a looming deadline, a murky criminal conspiracy, and a questionable understanding of the investigatory...

A short film that documents Frankie Kraft, filmmaker and brother of the star of Richard Linklater’s 2005 remake of “Bad News...

A conversational “hangout movie” set in the 1830s–1840s, centering around the thinkers who shaped the American Transcendentalist...

A nameless young man travels the country by bus and train, visiting friends and making new ones, having banal conversations, and dedicating his...

A lonely philosophy professor hires a sex worker to have a conversation and play chess. As they attempt to connect, we learn the philosopher’s...

Two salesman go to Nevada to exploit nuclear protesters and end up finding something more.

After serving three long years in prison, a registered sex offender returns to civilization, only to find an environment that's completely...

Biopic based on the life of American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks.

This videotape was edited together by Richard Linklater in 1991 from film countdowns and tail leaders from films submitted to the Austin Film Society...

Richard Linklater hosts a screening of Bresson’s PICKPOCKET in honor of AFS’ 30th anniversary.

AFS artistic director Richard Linklater & Associate Director Holly Herrick introduce and discuss Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

From 1999 to 2000, filmmaker Caveh Zahedi corresponded in a series of video-letters with his friend Thomas Logoreci.