Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016)

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In terms of career restrospective/biopic documentaries, Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny is pretty standard - behind the scenes footage, talking heads, etc. - and doesn't go to in depth on any given project (up through finishing Boyhood; the film was put together while he was shooting Everybody Wants Some!). Still, if you're a Linklater fans, you'll immediately perk up when you favorite movies are discussed and his collaborators from those films show up to discuss his ideas and process. It's just that if you want to know more about a film, you'll have to find a more specific making of. Here, we barely glance at the origins of, and reactions to, a film, with very little in between. And so what's more interesting in this context is perhaps the biographical data, except that personally doesn't interest ME much (just like I don't care about the details of Shakespeare's life or any other creative type, unless the life was the art - Wilde's for example). But Dream is Destiny could do worse than scroll us through the filmography, put each film in context, and make us want to watch them all over again. 1 year 6 months ago