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About: Born in Houston on July 30, 1960, Richard Linklater left college to work on an oil rig and used the money he made to create his first feature film, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988).But it was with the low-budget Slacker (1991) and the subsequent Dazed and Confused (1993) -- which were both set in Austin, Texas, and helped launch the career of then-undiscovered stars -- that Linklater caught the attention of critics, who lauded him as the voice of Generation X. He continued to tell the stories of young people with Before Sunrise (1995) and the Oscar-nominated Before Sunset (2004) before experimenting with a technique in which live actors are shot on film and then animated in Waking Life (2001).Other notable films include School of Rock (2003), a remake of Bad News Bears (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Fast Food Nation (2006).
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