Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise is a modern romance classic, only slightly less convincing than the superior sequel, Before Sunset. Both films star Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. In 1995's Sunrise, the pair, an American traveler named Jesse and a French girl named Celine, fall in love within a matter of hours during a night-long tour of Vienna. The couple reunited nine years later in Sunset, which follows them as they stroll around Paris, catching up after seeing each other for the first time since they departed the Austrian capital. Hawke and Delpy improvised a great deal of the Sunset script, and were nominated (along with original screenwriters Linklater and Kim Krizan) for an Oscar. Linklater spoke at the time about revisiting Jesse and Celine again, and Hawke revealed this week that he and Delpy are planning work on a new script. 

An icon is someone who floats above the culture. Consider Orson Welles, the subject of my upcoming film Me and Orson Welles, and an icon if there ever was one. He was a larger-than-life personality and immense talent who has come to mean a great deal to many people. But the more you study his life, the more unknowable he becomes. He was a notoriously unreliable narrator. He never distinguished between fact and fiction. Everything -- from Shakespeare to his own personal history -- was open to reinterpretation.

'Dazed and Confused' director on Zac Efron & future of film

Despite horrid reviews and jive-talking robots, there are a lot of people going to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen this weekend (I'm talking to you 10-25 male demographic). The movie has already grossed more money than most do in an entire theatrical run, and it isn't even the weekend yet! But still, not everyone is going to the multiplex this weekend. Richard Linklater, director of the classics School of Rock, Dazed and Confused, and Before Sunset, has a better way to spend his time. Hint: it involves books. His thoughts: