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Slacker /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1605D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 247.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2004]Edition: Director approved special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (62 chiefly unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409533
  • 9781559409537
  • 1559409533
  • 1559409533
  • 1559409533
Other title:
  • Title on container: Richard Linklater's Slacker
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .S54 2004
NLM classification:
  • CC1605
Other classification:
  • HU 9800
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Production credits:
  • Cinematographer, Lee Daniel ; editor, Scott Rhodes.
Awards:
  • Named to the National Film Registry in 2012 by the Library of Congress.
Cast: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey.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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02350 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050185247
Booklet Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02351 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050185255

Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.

Full screen (1.33:1).

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.

MPAA rating: R.

DVD video; region 1, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital stereo.

In English; optional English SDH for the hearing impaired.

Named to the National Film Registry in 2012 by the Library of Congress.

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