Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits the 1969 moon landing through the memories of a boy who imagines traveling there himself. It premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in ...
Having applied his signature indie aesthetic to the '70s, the '80s and — perhaps most memorably — the '90s, the director now revisits the warts-and-all '60s of his Texas youth. By Mia Galuppo Film ...
A version of this story about “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. The Academy made Richard Linklater play a waiting game with ...
Growing up in the NASA hub of Houston, Richard Linklater remembers the pervasive impact the first moon landing had on his childhood. He fuses those memories with fantasy in his new movie, the animated ...
No more pencils, no more books, no more Oscar voters’ dirty looks! At least when it comes to accepting new forms of cinema. Too often, the industry hears, “It’s good, but not for the Oscars,” or “That ...
Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...
SPACE CADET A 10-year-old Texan goes to the moon — or does he? — in Linklater’s powerfully nostalgic animated odyssey. Credit: Courtesy of Netflix With its 10-year-old protagonist, is this a movie for ...
WHAT we really seek in space is “not knowledge, but wonder, beauty, romance, novelty – and above all, adventure”, sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke told the American Aeronautical Society in 1967, as the ...
Exclusive: Linklater is appealing the decision, which he sees as a bias against both rotoscope animation and independent productions. Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood” revisits ...