#247: LINKLATER, Richard: Slacker (1991)
LINKLATER, Richard (United States)
Slacker [1991]
Spine #247
DVD
DVD
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a loose-knit subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in Austin, Texas. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere $23,000, writer/producer/director Linklater and his crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot, choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as unique as the last, culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants, and one of the key films of the American Independent film movement of the 1990s.
100 minutes
Color
Color
Stereo
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2004
Director/Writer
Richard Linklater was 31 when he wrote and directed Slacker.
Other Linklater films in the Collection:
#336: Dazed And Confused (1993)
#857: Before Sunrise (1995)
#858: Before Sunset (2004)
#859: Before Midnight (2013)
#839: Boyhood (2014)
The Film
Other Linklater films in the Collection:
#336: Dazed And Confused (1993)
#857: Before Sunrise (1995)
#858: Before Sunset (2004)
#859: Before Midnight (2013)
#839: Boyhood (2014)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Sixty-four page booklet featuring essays by John Pierson, Michael Barker, and reviews, production notes, a complete cast and crew listing, and an introduction to It’s Impossible to Learn to Flow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman.
Commentary
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Sixty-four page booklet featuring essays by John Pierson, Michael Barker, and reviews, production notes, a complete cast and crew listing, and an introduction to It’s Impossible to Learn to Flow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman.
Commentary
Three audio commentaries featuring Linklater and members of the cast and crew.
Casting tapes
Casting tapes
Featuring select “auditions” from the over one-hundred-member cast, with an essay from production manager/casting director Anne Walker-McBay.
Early film treatment
Home movies
Ten-minute trailer
Early film treatment
Home movies
Ten-minute trailer
For a documentary about the landmark Austin café, Les Amis, which served as location for scenes in Slacker.
Stills gallery
Stills gallery
Featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos.
It’s Impossible to Learn to Flow by Reading Books
It’s Impossible to Learn to Flow by Reading Books
Linklater’s first full-length feature, with commentary by the director, available here for the first time on home video.
Extras Rating (0-40):
Woodsrock
An early short 16mm film made by Linklater and Lee Daniel in 1985.
The Roadmap
The working script of Slacker, including fourteen deleted scenes and alternate takes.
Footage
From the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion in Austin, Texas, in 2001.
Slacker culture
Essay by Linklater.
Information
About the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 by Linklater with Daniel, including early flyers from screenings.
Original theatrical trailer
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