Slacker (DVD)
Special Edition
APPROX. 100 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1991 - MPA RATING: R
DVD Specifications
| Release date: | Sep 14, 2004 |
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| Studio: | Criterion/Voyager |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Video: | Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
| Audio: | TBA |
| Genre: | |
| Subtitles: | English |
Special Features
- Disc One:
- 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 Anis, which served as location for several scenes in SLACKER
- Stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos
- Disc Two:
- It's Impossible To Learn To Plow By Reading Books (1988), Linklater's first full-length feature, with commentary by the director, available here for the first time on home video
- Woodshock, 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
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Slacker culture essay by Linklater
- Information about the Austin Film Society, founding in 1985 by Linklater with Daniel, including early flyers from screenings
- PLUS: a 64 page booklet featuring essays by author and filmmaker John Pierson (SPIKE MIKE RELOADED: A GUIDED TOUR ACROSS A DECADE OF INDEPENDENT AMERICAN CINEMA) and Michael Barker, heard of Sony Pictures Classics, as well as reviews, production notes, a complete cast and crew listing, and an introduction to IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN TO PLOW BY READING BOOKS by director Monte Hellman (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, THE SHOOTING.)
Synopsis
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. SLARKER 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.
Cast & Crew
Criterion/Voyager
presents
"Slacker"
Written byRichard Linklaterproduced byRichard Linklater
directed byRichard Linklater
Production Year: 1991
