What is special about Tape from 2001?

It unfolds in real time in one motel room

Richard Linklater Quiz: Boyhood, Before Sunrise and Real Time

Boyhood was filmed a few days at a time over 12 years, and this Richard Linklater quiz explores the Texas director's obsession with time. Play the interactive questions on Slacker, Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, real-time stories like Tape, School of Rock and the Austin Film Society.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Boyhood
Over how many years was Boyhood filmed?
Oscar
Which Boyhood actor won an Academy Award?
Vienna
In which city is Before Sunrise set?
Sequel
Which sequel unfolds in roughly real time in Paris?
Greece
Where is Before Midnight set?
Slacker
Which city is the setting for Slacker?
Dazed
Which 1993 Linklater film follows the last day of school in 1976?
Tape
What is special about Tape from 2001?
Rotoscope
Which technique did Waking Life use?
Society
Which film organization did Linklater found in 1985?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Over how many years was Boyhood filmed?
Answer: 12
Linklater shot the film in short sessions from 2002 to 2013 so Ellar Coltrane grew up on camera.
Q2: Which Boyhood actor won an Academy Award?
Answer: Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette won Best Supporting Actress for playing the mother.
Q3: In which city is Before Sunrise set?
Answer: Vienna
Jesse and Céline spend one night walking through Vienna after meeting on a train.
Q4: Which sequel unfolds in roughly real time in Paris?
Answer: Before Sunset
Before Sunset follows the pair for about 80 minutes, close to its running time.
Q5: Where is Before Midnight set?
Answer: Greece
The third film finds Jesse and Céline on holiday in the Peloponnese.
Q6: Which city is the setting for Slacker?
Answer: Austin
Slacker drifts between quirky residents of Austin and helped launch American indie film in 1990.
Q7: Which 1993 Linklater film follows the last day of school in 1976?
Answer: Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused gave early roles to Matthew McConaughey and Ben Affleck.
Q8: What is special about Tape from 2001?
Answer: It unfolds in real time in one motel room
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard act out a tense reunion in real time.
Q9: Which technique did Waking Life use?
Answer: Rotoscoping over live action
Animators traced over filmed footage, giving a dreamlike moving-painting look.
Q10: Which film organization did Linklater found in 1985?
Answer: Austin Film Society
The Austin Film Society now runs studios and supports Texas filmmakers.

Richard Linklater Quiz – Time as a Storytelling Tool

Richard Linklater, born in Houston in 1960, built his career in Austin, Texas. Slacker in 1990 and Dazed and Confused in 1993 captured aimless days and conversations, and he founded the Austin Film Society in 1985.

Linklater often uses time itself as a subject. The Before trilogy revisits Jesse and Céline every nine years, in Vienna, Paris and Greece, and Before Sunset and Tape play out in roughly real time.

His most ambitious project, Boyhood, was filmed over 12 years so its cast aged naturally; Patricia Arquette won an Oscar for it. He has also made crowd-pleasers like School of Rock and experiments like the rotoscoped Waking Life.

What This Quiz Teaches

Film fans and students will enjoy these questions.

How Boyhood was made
Where the Before films are set
Which films capture Austin
What real-time storytelling means
Which techniques he tried

Did You Know?

Ethan Hawke has appeared in many Linklater films.
Everybody Wants Some was called a spiritual sequel to Dazed.
A Scanner Darkly also used rotoscoping.
Merrily We Roll Along is being shot over many years.
Linklater was nominated for Oscars in writing and directing.