Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Richard Linklater’s newest film Hit Man is the latest in the director's expansive filmography, but which of his movies is the best? The director and writer of many landmark pieces of modern cinema, such as the cinematic classics Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, Boyhood, and Everybody Wants Some!!, his first collaboration with Powell.
Fast Food Nation The most overtly political film in Linklater’s filmography, Fast Food Nation is loosely based on real stories of the fast-food industry. The film is comprised of three darkly comedic stories of different positions at a hamburger chain’s meat processing plant: executive, consumer, and worker. Fast Food Nation clearly critiques its industry, but its message is somewhat undercut by Linklater’s tendency to humanize all of his characters.
A Scanner Darkly Adapted from the novel by Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly is Linklater’s most unnerving animated feature. Keanu Reeves stars alongside Robert Downey Jr and Winona Ryder as an undercover agent investigating the drug-addicted underbelly of a future dystopian police state. The films’ narrative twists are matched by its innovative rotoscoped style; actors’ performances were digitally traced and formed into realistic, eerie animation.
Slacker Recognized as Linklater’s breakout film, Slacker set off the 1990s’ independent film movement. As wandering and eccentric as its characters, the film follows various misfits in Austin, Texas as they explore their hobbies and wax philosophical on social issues. Linklater found his foothold in filmmaking with Slacker, establishing himself as a master of satire and period encapsulation - even inspiring such films as Kevin Smith’s Clerks.
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