First look: Richard Linklater debuts Houston-set film ‘Apollo 10 1/2’ at SXSW
AUSTIN, TEXAS - MARCH 13: Richard Linklater and Tommy Pallotta attend the premiere of"Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood" during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at The Paramount Theatre on March 13, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Viewers can thank Linklater for the movie’s deep reservoir of Houston knowledge. The director with a special knack for shaping the contours of adolescence for the big screen lives in Austin but hails from Houston.
The one downside for Houstonians is that, while the movie’s soul may be made in Houston, its body was fashioned in Austin at Richard Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios because Linklater needed the technology there for his animation-live action fusion. Beyond that, Linklater said he wanted to create a cinematic shout-out to NASA, “by far my favorite government agency,” he joked at the Paramount. And NASA apparently loves him back.
“They showed on the Space Station a few days ago,” he said. “It was a dream come true. It was just amazing to talk to these guys. They’re not normal people. They’re amazing.” This is Linklater’s third animated film — following “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly” — but it ranks with his best live-action work. In fact, the movie was shot with actors and then handed off for the animators to do their thing. It’s also often truly funny, and not just because much of it derives its humor from the shock of recognition or distant echoes from the viewer’s own childhood.
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