The films below are zeitgeisty in the way that Rebel Without a Cause and Easy Rider are zeitgeisty. They don't just depict a generation. They capture it.

Film: Before Midnight (2013) Cast includes: Ethan Hawke (Training Day), Julie Delpy (Broken Flowers) Director: Richard Linklater (Bernie) Genre: Drama...

I'm a romantic, but I need some connection to reality before I can even begin to entertain the fantasy. After a delay, Before Midnight gives me that.

LOS ANGELES -- The hardest segment to watch in "Before Midnight" – an extended, emotional hotel-room argument that comprises the film's final th...

Anyone who's been married for any length of time should be able to enjoy Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, if squirming in your seat can be considered a form of enjoyment.

If it seems like Richard Linklater has been discussing a sequel to "Dazed and Confused" for quite some time, that's because he has been discussing a s...

Twenty-two years have past since Richard Linklater burst on the indie film scene with "Slacker," but the director is still happy to work outside of ma...

At the Tribeca Film Festival on Monday evening, celebrities descended onto the red carpet at the Borough of Manhattan Community College theater for th...

The most highly anticipated threequel of the summer? For many film aficionados it's "Before Midnight," the third installment in Richard Linklater's ta...

Now that his first comeback movie has seriously bombed, what's next for Arnold Schwarzenegger?

When Matthew McConaughey calls, he introduces himself by simply saying, "McConaughey." This has probably been his introduction of choice for some time...

In the balcony, spirits soared. Indie filmmakers labor long and hard to secure financing for their projects so when it comes time to play, pop those corks!

You know it's 2012 when Chris Rock and Julie Delpy star in a romantic comedy. 2 Days in New York is not only the funniest but the most contemporary and authentic romantic comedy to come out in years.

Bernie, based on a true-crime story from a small Texas town, is a film Linklater knew he wanted to make when he first read the Texas Monthly story about the case in 1998.

Shirley MacLaine sat down recently to discuss her latest cinematic outing, as well as a host of other subjects befitting one of Hollywood's great eclectic personalities. Here's what transpired.

Why would a small town in East Texas claim that one of its residents, an assumedly gay man, should be given a lenient sentence for shooting an old woman in the back? That's a question that's only partially answered by Richard Linklater's dark comedy, Bernie.

When I met with Jack Black at a Midtown Manhattan hotel, he was fighting a sore throat. Black's under the weather demeanor, lounging on the couch in w...

Based on a true story about events and people in a small Texas town in the mid-1990s, Bernie is a dark joke with a straight face -- and the surprising deadpan in this movie belongs to Jack Black.

Having already played a creepy, semi-charismatic practitioner of fanatical and manipulative gospel in "There Will Be Blood," Paul Dano should be well ...

Those wanting to get closer to that more traditional and comforting take on the eternal "boy meets girl" predicament need only look back and revisit the great film romances of the past, movies that reflect those long-vanished ideals.