cc New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel, made from original 16 mm film elements Three audio commentaries featuring Richard Linklater and members and 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 café, Les Amis, which served as location for several scenes in Slacker Stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition 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 16 mm film made by Linklater and Lee Daniel in 1985 "The Roadmap," the working script of Slacker, including 14 deleted scenes and alternate takes Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion in Austin, TX, in 2001 Original theatrical trailer Slacker culture essay by Linklater Information about the Austin Film Society, founded 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, head 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)
2 - Disc Set
[Criterion Collection]
[2 Discs] Audio: DD2
Rating: R Genre: Comedy Theatrical Release: 07/05/1991(USA) Release Date: 09/14/2004 SubTitles: English Dubbed: English Sound: DD2 Run Time: 100 Minutes Flags: Adult Situations, Profanity Distributor/Studio: Criterion
One of the key American independent films of the 1990s, Richard Linklater's feature debut is an audacious look at the twentysomething culture in the college town of Austin, Texas. Set over the course of a 24-hour period, the film is a collection of short, unconnected glimpses into the dropout subculture, touching base with a variety of musicians, students, street people and general eccentrics. While there's no real plot to speak of, Linklater's eye for nuance and gift for dialogue are superb, and the portrait he paints is so uncannily accurate that the term "slacker" was almost immediately co-opted as a media buzzword, one interchangeable with the similarly-overused "Generation X." Regardless, the film is an evocative reflection of a community and its culture and remains a definitive artifact of its time and place.
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