Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Richard Linklater is one of the more versatile ...
Thirty Years After ‘Slacker,’ the Film Is an Austin Time Capsule—And a Hopeful Tribute to Its Spirit
Richard Linklater’s film belongs in the canon of great Texas cinema. Of course, even more than cheap rents or greasy diners, people just miss being young. Slacker’s cast captured an entire generation ...
It’s been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this “Slacker map,” we ...
Eschewing traditional plot in a non-documentary feature film is a challenging proposition, one that more often than not results in failure. Plot is such a primary and, for the audience, enveloping ...
ON LINKLATER’S STYLE WITH ACTORS: To work with him was like the cameras weren’t even there, he’s so relaxed and so fun. It’s like, “Hey Rick, can I say this? Can I do this?” And the answer is, “Yeah, ...
Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died ...
From Matt Dentler and Cinetic Rights Management comes news that Rick Linklater’s seminal indie, Slacker, is now available for free viewing on Hulu. Kevin Smith, who is a big fan of the film, has a ...
In his “making of” book (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), the following passage, Linklater’s own, appears: “I guess it all started for me when I wandered into a Dead Kennedys show in the summer of 1984. …As ...
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