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Slacker

Richard Linklater's Slacker (other title)

Basquez, Rudy (actor.). Caffeine, Jean 1960- (actor.). Daniel, Lee 1962- (cinematographer.). Hockey, Jan (actor.). Linklater, Richard 1960- (film director,, screenwriter,, film producer,, actor.). Rhodes, Scott 1956- (editor of moving image work.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Detour Filmproduction, (presenter,, production company.). Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey. (Cast).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 1559409533
ISBN: 9781559409537
Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
2 videodiscs (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (62 chiefly unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Edition: Director approved special edition ; full screen.
Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2004]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Full screen (1.33:1). Originally released as a motion picture in 1991. 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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Cinematographer, Lee Daniel ; editor, Scott Rhodes.
Participant or Performer Note:	Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: R.
System Details Note:	DVD; region 1, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital stereo.
Language Note:	In English; optional English SDH for the hard-of-hearing.
Awards Note:	Named to the National Film Registry in 2012 by the Library of Congress.