Richard Linklater's primary focus as a filmmaker has been making quiet meditations on how mundane moments of life shape us as people in the long-term. This wistful kind of storytelling has served him extremely well in delivering such outstanding features as
Boyhood or any of the three
Before movies. But over the course of his career Linklater has stepped out of that comfort zone to deliver delightful family comedies (
School of Rock), remarkable Coen Brothers-esque dark comedies (
Bernie) and even acclaimed period piece romantic dramas (
Me and Orson Welles). But perhaps his biggest stretch outside of
Boyhood-type projects is
A Scanner Darkly, an animated adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's novel of the same name.
