Slacker (2-DVD) R
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 17, 2013
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Linklater | |
Directed by | Richard Linklater | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Linklater | |
Produced by | Richard Linklater | |
Director of Photography: | Lee Daniel |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A --
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Slacker" is a hallmark of American independent cinema because it is so thoroughly original in its concepts and execution.
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ColeSmithey.com
...[The cast is] so effective that it's hard to believe they didn't make up their own lunacies....Ageless...
New York Times
4 stars out of 5 -- A bone-dry deadpan stream of vignettes....Still funny and hypnotic.
Uncut
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Pretension is kept at bay by the fact that whenever someone is holding court, the others in the scene barely seem to be listening.
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LarsenOnFilm
[A] hilariously deadpan comedy that flawlessly documents that era's floundering-bohemian attitude in Austin, Texas...
Premiere
...Scrappy and shrewdly hilarious....Linklater has the gift of a true satirist...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 3/4 --
What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.
Rolling Stone
Product Description:
Texan filmmaker Richard Linklater's debut independent feature takes an original approach to traditional narrative, creating an entirely new form of cinema in the process. Shot at a leisurely pace with a style similar to Robert Bresson, SLACKER follows the unmotivated inhabitants of Austin, Texas, over the course of one day, as they waste their time talking about politics, philosophy, and popular culture. Beginning with a cab ride in which the fare (Linklater himself) suggests to the driver a theory about alternate universes (which also happens to mirror what transpires on screen), the film abruptly shifts to another character and situation after an elderly woman is hit by a car. Soon after, another character is introduced, and the camera follows her. This formula sticks for the whole film; by the end, dozens of characters have been introduced and, just as quickly, been left behind.
Linklater spent years taking notes in order to infuse original dialogue into every situation, which results in a sometimes pathetic, sometimes poignant, always amusing trip into a lackadaisical college town. Luckily, for fans of new and inventive approaches to filmmaking, Linklater himself wasn't a "slacker," ensuring the film's place in indie film history.
Linklater spent years taking notes in order to infuse original dialogue into every situation, which results in a sometimes pathetic, sometimes poignant, always amusing trip into a lackadaisical college town. Luckily, for fans of new and inventive approaches to filmmaking, Linklater himself wasn't a "slacker," ensuring the film's place in indie film history.
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- UPC: 715515109710
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