Director Richard Linklater will be the next featured guest in the latest episode of “The Kamla Show” premiering on WKTV Tuesday, Dec. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
Sitting down with host Kamla Bhatt, Linklater talks about his latest film “The Last Flag Flying,” currently in theaters including Celebration! Cinema North. The film, which stars Steve Carrel, Lawrence Fishburne, and Bryan Cranston, is based on the 2005 book of the same title by Darryl Ponicsan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Linklater.
“Really loved those characters and what it was trying to say about middle age guys coming back together that had something in their past, and how time changes you and it doesn’t,” Linklater said during the interview as to why he wanted to do produced the film.
Thirty years after serving in Vietnam together, a former Navy Corposman Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Carrel) re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon (Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Fishburne), to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Linklater said this is not a war film in the sense that it is an epic battle with soldiers “taking the hill” but more of his type of war film where it delves into the lives of the characters.
“You are seeing these wars echoed through three individuals who have been through it then and now in different ways and it is really about their lives,” he said.
During the interview with Bhatt, Linklater also shares his love for film and how he watches them along with the influence of Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky — considered a master filmmaker — has had on his career.
Linklater’s previous films include “Boyhood,” “Bernie.” “Before Sunrise,” “Before Sunset,” and “School of Rock.”
“The Kamla Show: Last Flag Flying” will be rebroadcast on Wednesday, Dec. 20, and Friday, Dec. 22, at 11:30 a.m.
