Richard Linklater's Slacker
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants
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| Language: | English |
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[United States] :
Criterion Collection : Home Vision Entertainment,
[2004]
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| Edition: | Director approved special ed |
| Series: | Criterion collection
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Table of Contents:
- Special features: disc 1. Three audio commentaries featuring Richard Linklater and members of the cast and crew
- Casting tapes featuring select "auditions" from the over one-hundred-member cast, with an essay from production manager/casting director Anne Walker-McBay
- An early film treatment
- Home movies
- Ten-minute trailer for a documentary about the landmark Austin cafe, Les Amis, which served as location for several scenes in "Slacker"
- Stills gallery ; Disc 2. It's impossible to learn to plow by reading books (1988 ; Linklater's first full-length feature, with commentary by the director)
- Woodshock (An early short 16mm film made by Linklater and Lee Daniel in 1985)
- The Roadmap (A working script of 'Slacker' including fourteen deleted scenes and alternate takes)
- Footage from the "Slacker" tenth-anniversary reunion in Austin, Texas, in 2001
- Slacker cluture essay by Linklater
- Information about the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 by Linklater