Details
Slacker Blu-Ray (UK Import)
Criterion
Original title: Slacker
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060952891991
Image: 1.33:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Subtitles: English SDH
Rating: 15
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kathy McCarty, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine
Director: Richard Linklater
Synopsis:
Slacker, directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on 16 mm for a mere $23,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants, and one of the key films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
Additional features:
- New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Three audio commentaries, featuring Linklater and members of the cast and crew
- It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Linklater's first full-length feature, with commentary by the director
- Woodshock, a 1985 16 mm short by Linklater and Daniel
- Casting tapes featuring select “auditions” from the more-than-100-member cast
- Deleted scenes and alternate takes
- Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion
- Early film treatment
- home movies
- Ten-minute trailer for a 2005 documentary about the landmark Austin café Les Amis
- Original theatrical trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author and filmmaker John Pierson, an introduction to It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman, an essay by Michael Barker, reviews by critics Ron Rosenbaum and Chris Walters, and production notes by Linklater
- New cover by Marc English
