Q&A: Richard Linklater on time, nostalgia & 'Apollo 10 1/2'
30.03.2022 - 21:41
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NEW YORK -- Bike rides, kickball, Jiffy Pop, Jell-O and other well-remembered details crowd Richard Linklater’s “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” an affectionate ode to his own childhood growing up outside Houston in the late 1960s.NASA and the moon mission are just next door, as are other scientific marvels (Astroturf!). But the sense of wonder that permeates “Apollo 10 ½” is felt just as strongly in the neighborhood streets where kids roam with skinned knees.
“A Free-Range Childhood” was Linklater’s original subtitle.Time flows through Linklater’s films. Its passing paced “Boyhood” and punctuated the “Before” trilogy.
He has plunged in the ’70s (“Dazed and Confused”) and the ‘80s (“Everybody Wants Some!”), and made movies long enough to see his films become indelibly associated with the '90s.“It’s never too late to look back on another era and go, Wow, how did we get from there to here?” Linklater said recently by Zoom from his home outside Austin, Texas. “That is our relation, isn’t it? It’s our present selves and our past selves, and the past worlds we lived in.”“Apollo 10 ½,” which debuts Friday on Netflix, marks Linklater’s third animated film, after “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly.” And while the 61-year-old writer-director's films have always moved with their own leisurely, philosophical rhythm, “Apollo 10 ½,” especially, radiates a glowing nostalgia for a bygone time -- of childhood amid halcyon days of space-age possibility and, as its narrator (Jack Black) describes, “the height of the prank-call era."“I wanted to go back to that time and say what it was like at that moment,” says Linklater.
“We fall into hero myths and big stories. Correct me if I’m wrong, but when was the last time the world was
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