Thursday, March 6, 2008

by Ari

I just realized that Richard Linklater is making a movie about Orson Welles. According to imdb, the story focuses on the Mercury Theater production of "Julius Caesar" in 1937. It's called Me and Orson Welles.

Sounds good to me. Linklater is one of the most interesting and exciting filmmakers working today, and I love that he maintains an independent spirit even if experiments with mainstream Hollywood from time to time. I consider Before Sunset to be his finest work, one of the best films of this decade. A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life are also pretty excellent. Brilliant, provocative, underrated films.