Happy Thursday, everyone! We're kind of moved, a lot of boxes are unpacked but I'm going to call an audible and give you one more week of a recommendation. But this is a big one; this month on the Criterion Channel it's a spotlight of the works of Richard Linklater. He's a director that has almost always worked for me outside of a very rare few missteps (I simply do not understand the need for a Bad News Bears remake) and if you have CC access you can do far worse than dipping into this list:
Slacker, 1991
Heads I Win/Tails You Lose, 1991
SubUrbia, 1996
The Newton Boys, 1998
Tape, 2001
Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor, 2003
A Scanner Darkly, 2006
Me and Orson Welles, 2008
Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach, 2008
Bernie, 2011
Boyhood, 2014
Fire Ted Cruz, 2018
Another Day at the Office, 2019
Sadly, the list doesn't include the Before trilogy, which is all over the place in terms of streaming. Before Sunrise is on Hoopla, Before Sunset is just rent/buy and Before Midnight is on Hulu. But of these, I'd recommend Bernie, Boyhood*and A Scanner Darkly and there's a bunch of stuff here I simply haven't seen and need to catch up on.
*Boyhood in particular is a very interesting experiment that I feel we've almost forgotten about 8 years on. Filmed over a decade with the same characters and with a young Texan kid from 8-18, it's also a slice of American history as you see what's going on in the background, from pop culture to politics.
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