Slacker - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Bob Boyd, Brecht Andersch, Jean Caffeine, Jerry Delony, Rudy BasquezBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Slacker - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: "And remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion."
Summary: 5 Stars
SLACKER is a hilarious, oddball, and thought-provoking film, much like A WAKING LIFE, but with no absolutely no semblance of a main character or a unifying plot. If you loved WAKING LIFE, then I believe you will also love this film, which was Linklater's first feature.
The bonus disc is good, especially for film students and Linklater fanatics, but I honestly could live without most of it. Hope they release a less pricey, single-disc version for those of us who really just want the film and little else.
Anyways, the following is my favorite quote from this film which absolutely overflows with classic quotable moments. The scene concerns an elderly hipster - a self-styled anarchist - who offers these parting words to a young man who, only moments ago, broke into his house and held him at gunpoint. Fortunately for the anarchist, the house-burglar, and for us, the gun didn't work, and the two men soon struck up an unlikely sort of friendship...or maybe kinship is a better word. Anyways:
"To those humans in whom I have faith, I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation.
I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished.
I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not: that they endure."
I like that.
Slack on.
Summary of Slacker - Criterion Collection
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 at Austin. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere $23,000, writer/producer/director Linklater and his close-knit 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 keynote films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.Richard Linklater's debut feature is a comic kaleidoscopic portraitof the quirky characters stuck in a college town (it's Austin, Texas, but it could stand for hundreds of such places), a devilishly clever and endlessly inventive film that overcomes its nothing budget with scene after hilarious scene of short, sharp cinematic shots. Structured something like Luis Bu?uel's The Phantom of Liberty, Slacker is a comic series of character pieces, each lasting a few minutes before the camera picks up and follows someone, perhaps simply an extra in the scene, to the next conversation. Characters spout off theories on everything from JFK and Charles Whitman (we even get an eerie glimpse of the tower he climbed for his killing spree) to Elvis and UFOs, and more (wanna buy a Madonna pap smear?) on our bohemian tour of a condensed day-in-the-life. Linklater lets the characters set the pace but provides a loose, almost imperceptible rhythm to the film as a whole, giving a kind of structure to what seems like a series of improvisations. But the heart of the film is the freewheeling array of obsessed, self-absorbed, or simply lost souls wandering streets and coffee shops ready to talk your ear off about absolutely nothing. Killing time has never been more fun. --Sean Axmaker
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