French arts organization honors Richard Linklater


The Center Pompidou will be working to honor the innovative filmmaker Richard Linklater next month. The Paris Center for Arts will hold "Richard Linklater: Shooting Time" from November 25 to January 6, 2020.

Linklater from Houston joins other filmmakers, including Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog, who looked back at Pompidou.

The career retrospection consists of Linklater's entire film, which began with "I cannot plow with reading", which began in 1988 three years after Linklater started the Austin Film Society. After graduating from college, he moved to Austin, becoming the cornerstone of the city's independent film world. Linklater has directed 19 films in 30 years. Earlier this year, "Where did Bernadette go?" Was in the theater


He announced earlier this year that he will be filming Steven Sondheim's musical "Merrily We Roll Along", a project that will last for 20 years. Needless to say it's not his next movie in the theater. His 2014 Academy Award movie "Boyhood" was filmed between 2001 and 2013. His other films, "Before Sunrise", "Before Sunset", "Before Midnight", and "Slacker" in 1990, found Linklater. Playing with the concept of time in his retrospection partially explains the title of the retrospective. In his work, a short film was produced to investigate the subject.

The exhibition also includes original photographs, posters, documents and videos related to his work. The gallery in the exhibition also highlights the Austin Film Society.

“This is certainly a great honor and more challenging. We can't wait to see all the movies and materials collected together to make sure they're consistent and meaningful, ”Linklater said. "Being able to share my work on this scale is profound and humble."

Linklater was born in Houston in 1960. He studied in Sam Houston before working for the Oil League. He explains that as he raced to the River Oaks Theatre in Houston, he saw all the movies he could do and sparked interest in the film. After moving to Austin in 1984, he studied there and lived there.

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