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California Institute of the Arts

Screening + Q&A w/ Richard Linklater

School of Film/Video

Event Information

Date: Nov. 14

Time: 1 PM

Location: CalArts Campus; Bijou Theater

About:

American filmmaking auteur Richard Linklater will be visiting CalArts on Friday, November 14th, for a screening of his latest film, Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A moderated by CalArts professors Athina Tsangari and James Benning, where Richard will delve into his writing and directing process over four decades of filmmaking and discuss scenes from various seminal works of his such as Slacker, Waking Life, The Before Trilogy, and Boyhood.

Person operating a Panavision film camera outdoors.

About the Artist

Richard Linklater (writer/director) is a five-time Oscar nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner, and two-time BAFTA winner who has directed 25 feature length films. His more recent credits include Boyhood (2014), Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Last Flag Flying (2017), Where’d You Go Bernadette? (2019), Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood (2022), Hit Man (2024), Hometown Prison (2024) and the just-released Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon, (both 2025). He also serves as the Artistic Director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that were not typically shown in Austin. The Austin Film Society operates a repertory theater, manages a film studio, and has given out over $2,700,000 in cash grants to Texas filmmakers since 1996.