It doesn't come out until next week but the preliminary reviews are at 94% Tomatometer.
It's more or less a fictionalization of his time as a college baseball player, and in a some sense a follow up to "Dazed and Confused," which, as you may recall, had a baseball theme as well. There was recently a short interview with him in The New Yorker and I really liked this quote:
Cinema is inherently nostalgic; Linklater is not. “With ‘Dazed’ I was trying to make an anti-nostalgia film,” he said, pushing his oatmeal aside. “My approach to 1976 was: ‘That time sucked.’ I thought I was going to do a similar thing here, but once I started working with my actors I realized that it was a good time to be young and in college. We had utter freedom, and my only responsibility was gassing my car. I defend the Sugarhill Gang, I defend Van Halen, I defend the Knack—people treat them like a joke, but they were the best teen-angst, teen-sexuality band ever.”
Here's the New Yorker link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/richard-linklaters-everybody-wants-some
It's more or less a fictionalization of his time as a college baseball player, and in a some sense a follow up to "Dazed and Confused," which, as you may recall, had a baseball theme as well. There was recently a short interview with him in The New Yorker and I really liked this quote:
Cinema is inherently nostalgic; Linklater is not. “With ‘Dazed’ I was trying to make an anti-nostalgia film,” he said, pushing his oatmeal aside. “My approach to 1976 was: ‘That time sucked.’ I thought I was going to do a similar thing here, but once I started working with my actors I realized that it was a good time to be young and in college. We had utter freedom, and my only responsibility was gassing my car. I defend the Sugarhill Gang, I defend Van Halen, I defend the Knack—people treat them like a joke, but they were the best teen-angst, teen-sexuality band ever.”
Here's the New Yorker link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/richard-linklaters-everybody-wants-some