Richard Linklater on the Making of “Slacker” (Part 1)

August 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full interview: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Slacker (1991) is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. Slacker is a uniquely-structured and seemingly plotless film, following a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly twenty-something bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them. The characters include Linklater as a miscreant who just steps off a bus, a UFO buff who insists the US has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderly anarchist who befriends a man trying to burglarize his house, a serial television set collector and a woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear. The woman selling the pap smear appears on the movie poster, and was played by Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Taylor. The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of 000, and premiered at Austin’s Dobie Theater in July 1990. Orion Classics acquired Slacker for nationwide distribution, and released a slightly modified 35mm version on July 5, 1991. It did not receive a wide release but went on to become a cult film bringing in a domestic gross of over 00000. The cast includes …

This is a story of a guy…a guy who has a solid animated script and nailed a big studio meeting last fall and got interest but nothing happened after that so he took the hype into his own hands to make this friggin’ movie and didn’t realize this vid would be spotlit when he started and now he’s peeing in his pants!!!
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