Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood. 2022. Written and directed by Richard Linklater

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Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood. 2022. USA. Directed by Richard Linklater. Courtesy Netflix

Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood. 2022. USA. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. With Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Jack Black. DCP. 98 min.

Richard Linklater has become so synonymous with blissful, meandering yarns of generational youth culture (Dazed and Confused, Slacker, Boyhood, the Before trilogy) that we too easily forget he is one of contemporary cinema’s finest animation filmmakers. Apollo 10 1/2 once again finds Linklater working with his longtime collaborator Tommy Pallotta—a producer of Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006)—this time on the 61-year-old West Texan filmmaker’s fantasy-memoir of Houston circa 1969. In this Tomorrowland of heart transplants, Astroturf, and Jiffy-Pop, a bygone View-Master America where scientific know-how and patriotic derring-do offer boundless prosperity and progress—never mind the race riots, assassinations, and carpet bombing of a country on the other side of the world–-even an ordinary fourth-grader can become the first kid to walk on the moon.

This film accompanies The Contenders 2022.

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