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Richard Linklater on What He Told Tarantino at the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ Premiere and Why the Indie Film Revolution Faded: ‘Unless It’s Got Money All Over It, Nobody Gives a S—’
Richard Linklater talks about making 'Nouvelle Vague' and 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and reflects on the indie film revolution of the 1990s.
As Richard Linklater basked in a rapturous ovation following the Cannes premiere of “Nouvelle Vague,” his look at Jean-Luc Godard and a movement in French cinema that changed the course of film history, it was impossible not to be reminded of the indie revolution he had played a vital role in three decades ago. Godard and his contemporaries François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer and others felt they were riding a tide of change, taking the kinds of movies that had come before them and scrambling them into something vital and new. The same thing was happening when Linklater came of age and other mavericks like Tarantino (“Pulp Fiction”), Steven Soderbergh (“Sex, Lies, and Videotape”), Paul Thomas Anderson (“Boogie Nights”) and Gus van Sant (“My Own Private Idaho”) were upending conventions and playing with form in innovative ways.
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