Director Richard Linklater has made a career out of telling personal stories with universal appeal. Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, the *Before *trilogy, *Boyhood. *No matter the genre or form, Linklater's human touch remains.
He joins us this week around the release of his latest film, *Hit Man) *(7:36), an action-packed neo-noir (9:15) that also explores the malleability of identity (12:00). Then, Linklater reflects on his athletic career in college (18:20), the health scare that ushered in a period of creative exploration (19:48), and the renegade spirit that drove his first two feature films, *It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books *and *Slacker *(29:12).
On the back-half, Linklater describes a formative Sundance memory with director Robert Altman (36:00), his first experience at the helm of a major motion picture* *(39:48), and the lived serendipity that inspired his *Before *films (54:22). To close: a Hollywood state of the union (1:02:54), why Richard continues to create art from the fabric of his life (1:10:00), and whether Sam should return to directing himself (1:19:36).
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