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Richard Linklater, and the Importance of Obsession
On the way over to Beijing I passed the time watching a movie on the in-flight entertainment system. I had heard about this movie called “Boyhood” that had been garnering praise; from actors, directors and my peers. I recalled a quote from a Hollywood star: “[…] and of course Boyhood, which blew me away”; one of those half-remembered quotations that lodge in your mind, relentlessly persuading. The movie is directed by Richard Linklater, a director who makes fervent, lucid films about grown-up things, or more specifically the moments that come to inform your grown-up self. Films like Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset (my personal favourite) and Before Midnight – a trilogy that feature the same two actors (Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke) in nine-year installments following the same couple as they go from chance encounter to rekindled romance to settled couple. Read the rest of this entry »
About
Lu-Hai Liang is a multimedia journalist.
- Video for The Press Association
- Words (& Photos) for Aljazeera, Business Insider, BBC Future, BBC Future Planet, BBC News, Inkstone, New Statesman, CNN, Forbes, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, CNN Travel, The Cornell Enterprise, Wanderlust, Nine MSN, Nikkei Asian Review, Marie Claire (Netherlands & South Africa), Attitude, Dazed & Confused, IGN, Paste, Eurogamer, GamingBible, Kotaku, The Daily Telegraph, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Willowherb Review, The National, Foreign Policy, UnderPinned, BBC Worklife, and WIRED.
- Presenter for Tribal China – an international documentary
- Camera Assistant for Olympic Broadcasting Services at London 2012 Olympics.
Contact: luhai_liang@hotmail.com
Twitter: @LuHai_Liang