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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Slacker (film)
		Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.
		The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of $23,000, and released on July 5, 1991.
		Slacker is a uniquely-structured and plotless film, following a day in the life of an ensemble of mostly twenty-something bohemians and misfits in Austin over the course of a single day.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Slacker_(film) (419 words)

	Slacker (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.
		The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of $23,000, and released on July 5, 1991.
		The movie also popularized the use of "slacker" to describe "a person regarded as one of a large group or generation of young people (especially in the early to mid 1990s) characterized by apathy, aimlessness, and lack of ambition" [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slacker_(movie) (355 words)

	Slacker
		This being Austin, one can conclude that this is the film's reference to Charles Whitman, the ex-marine who killed fifteen people and wounded scores of others from his sniper position atop the clock tower on the campus of the University of Texas in 1966.
		When interviewed on camera for a student film, he spews forth his low opinion of the working man. To him, as with must characters in this film, his situation is the result of his choosing not to participate in a society he doesn't agree with.
		By showing slackers in all age groups, the film shows that this attitude is not necessarily something one grows out of.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/7601/slacker.htm (1591 words)

	Film \| Slacker
		The characters in the film all live in Austin, Texas, which is not really in their favour but at least has a college of its own, a community which caters for it proudly and a decent climate.
		Linklater says his film is about 'the generation that would have been aborted but it just wasn't hip at the time', and defines slackers as 'spending their whole lives in their own heads, paralysed by the problem of making any difference'.
		And his film, though not exactly a breakthrough, since it mirrors a certain kind of sixties movie we all used to go to when we got fed up with Hollywood, is at least a genuine attempt to find out what has happened to another drop-out generation at a different time.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4264372-3718,00.html (696 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Slacker at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Released in 1990, Richard Linklater's Slacker was one of the first and more notable of a long line of dialogue driven, nothing-themed "day in the life of" films and television series that started coming out early on in the 90's and continue today.
		The film seems to be recognized more so for it's unique structure of visiting different characters for very brief moments of time then moving on, and not necessarily the substance of the film.
		I've never seen a film that has so many characters that are alike only in the fact that they all share the same kind of extreme thoughts, only on different things and interpreted in their own minds.
	www.epinions.com /content_21352189572 (864 words)

	Emanuel Levy : DVD - Slacker (1991)
		The novelty of "Slacker" is in showing material that usually happens off screen, scenes of "tedium" that in Hollywood movies disappear for the sake of a cleaner, linear plot.
		"Slacker" offers a deadpan portrait of Austin's laundromat philosophers, lumpen intellectuals, college dropouts and eternal students stuck in their dope habits and bizarre "theories." The shaggy-dog-story movie is organized serially from anecdote to anecdote, from rap to rap.
		Though most of his films occur within a short but intense period of time (usually a day or so), each film is radically different in tone and style.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=70 (1255 words)

	DVD review of Slacker: Criterion Collection - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The film struck such a chord in the popular culture that the term “slacker” entered the language and Linklater came to be identified, if grudgingly, as the unofficial slacker spokesman.
		The dictionary defines a slacker as “one that shirks work or evades military duty.” In the film, however, slackers come in all stripes and all ages, though they do tend be college age and most of them dress decidedly down.
		The slackers in Linklater’s movie also have an awful lot to say, and the film gives them an opportunity to hold court on a variety of subjects ranging from discussions of popular culture, literature, metaphysics and (a slacker favorite) conspiracy theories.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/slackercriterioncollection/13126/2663 (1976 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Slacker: Criterion Collection
		The vast majority of the film's segments revolve around conspiracies, secrets, unanswered questions, insider information, and outrageous personal insights—all of which fly directly in the face of the mainstream media and what they deem are the facts.
		Slacker argues that this is just one way of looking at life, a conformist attitude that disallows any individual interpretation or private outlook.
		Slacker is a very literate movie, a film that follows a love of language to almost surreal extremes.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/slacker.php (4000 words)

	Phil Villarreal's Review: Slacker \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The film is "Slacker," and it looms as a hidden treasure to be discovered by the odd Netflix search or a venture into a video store's "cult classics" section.
		His film was made on barely any budget, has no story and no stars, holds on to no stream of thought for more than a few minutes and is populated with exactly 100 characters.
		The form of the film, sans exposition or narrative thrust, tends to alienate some viewers, but repeated viewings work to expand the mind and accept new possibilities of what a film can be.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/61847 (881 words)

	Amazon.com: Slacker / Movie (1991) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Slacker (1991) One who shirks work or responsibility: "In terms of their outlook on the future, slackers regard tomorrow with a studied cynicism or...
		The film develops into sort of a walking tour of individuals where the viewer is a relative non-existent entity peeping through a window into a culture they may not understand or connected with...personally I found it hard to identify with many of the individuals, but that's not to say they don't exist.
		There was one sequence in the film that summed up this particular generational mindset (for lack of a better term) in that of the young couple in their crummy apartment.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305812330?v=glance (1937 words)

	FUTURE 5: Richard Linklater, "Slacker" for the New Millennium
		No this was just a film I've had in my mind for a long time and it was a challenge to try to make it work.
		I found myself in a very similar position that I was 10 years ago when I made "Slacker." I had a script for something I was trying to raise money for, I had made one Super 8 feature and I never raised a penny.
		Films are a lot faster now in general; they cut a lot more.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Linklater_Rich_010112.html (1326 words)

	Austin, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At night, parts of Austin are lit with "artificial moonlight." Several moonlight towers, built in the late 19th century and recognized as historic landmarks, illuminate the central part of the city.
		Films produced in Austin include Man of the House, Secondhand Lions, Waking Life, Spy Kids, Dazed and Confused, Office Space, The Life of David Gale, Miss Congeniality, Doubting Thomas and Slacker.
		In order to draw future film projects to the area, the Austin Film Society has converted several airplane hangars from the former Mueller Airport into the filmmaking center, Austin Studios.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austin,_Texas (4152 words)

	The Edge Film, DVD, video: Slacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The trick of the film is rather like a less formally structured reading of John Sayles' brilliantly caustic City of Hope, Linklater trails individuals, the camera abandoning them when an apparently more fascinating figure floats into view, or it just gets bored.
		The film has its longueurs, but its speed and invention ensures there will be another along in a minute.
		Slacker is at its best in the occasional moment where it transcends free and easy comedy and touches a rawer nerve - witness the distinctly Ballardian a pop tart eating TV backpacker who never leaves his house, his reality filtered through a steady diet of electronic images.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmssz/slacker.htm (260 words)

	‘Slacker’ (R)
		There's an old anarchist who talks a gun-wielding thief into joining him for a cup of coffee, a couple of earth girls who map out their menstrual cycles with clay pots in a park, a video junkie who lives in a room of televisions, a quiet young man who just ran over his mother.
		"Slacker" did well on the film festival circuit, and many critics have embraced it, calling it, among other things, "a compelling comedy of zonkitude." It is hip today to love an independent filmmaker.
		Since he had been chewing on this film for a while, the structure -- a series of vignettes, with no particular plot and no main characters -- made perfect sense to him.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/slackerrthomas_a09ef4.htm (965 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		Few of the many films shot in Austin over the past 10 or 15 years even attempt to make something of the way its citizens live.
		Slacker is the only one I know of that claims this city's version of life on the margins of the working world as its whole subject, and it is one of the first American movies ever to find a form so apropos to the themes of disconnectedness and cultural drift.
		Nothing in the current climate is more permissible than mock-futility as a sign of endurance and mourns the passing of time by marking it with emblems of affection and empathy; the only prizes worth having.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:139547 (553 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Slack Where We Started
		The Austin Film Society -- another offspring of Linklater's that has gone on to acquire a life of its own -- is celebrating the anniversary of Slacker with a 10-year reunion this Sunday at the Paramount Theatre.
		There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were and they would never raise that money again.
		Slacker was the end of that era where we could open and we actually played in certain houses for a long time.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-06-29/screens_feature.html (3747 words)

	Slacker - Movie Review
		I lived in Austin when Slacker was made in 1991 -- I was a junior at The University of Texas at the time, not cool enough to personally know anyone involved with the production but certainly aware of it when it came out.
		You couldn't avoid it: The film earned a miniscule release and was ignored at the national level, but in the town of Austin (population about 800,000 at the time), it got the red carpet treatement, playing in local theaters all year long.
		Slacker is actually at its most fun when people are riffing about random nonsense -- most memorably two cafe patrons arguing that The Smurfs is born from Krishna mythology and the famous scene with Teresa Taylor (that's her on the box cover) hawking a supposed Madonna pap smear for rent money.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/slacker (1094 words)

	Richard Linklater's Slacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The main characters in the film are "slackers," mostly white, in their twenties, and living on the fringe of society, with few visible means of support.
		Slackers raise indolence to a form of rebellion, however, not merely in their refusal to participate in America's energetic capitalism, but by embracing pop and sub-cultures that are deeply critical of the mainstream.
		This slacker community also has a particularly "Texan" feel to it, with its persistent references to the Kennedy assassination, and sniping spree of Charles Whitman, who shot 16 and wounded 30 from the top of a University of Texas observation tower in 1966.
	merlin.alleg.edu /employee/a/acarr/fs/slacker.html (779 words)

	Film Club - Arts and Faith
		I have seen most of Linklater's films but this is one I have yet to see ever since I missed it at the theatre because I had to work late.
		I'm tempted to suggest that the film not be a North American release -- not because overseas films are superior, but simply because the chances of most of us not having seen the film will be much greater.
		Slacker has been picked apart as an artifact of a particular zeitgeist (independent film and the grunge/Gen-X era), but what struck me when I watched it recently (and for the first time) is how human and moral the film is, and in ways that I think Christians could genuinely benefit from discussing.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=5370 (1967 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Slacker
		Shooting thefilmon16mmforamere $23,000, writer/producer/director Linklater and his crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot, choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as unique as the last, culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration.
		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.
		Slacker is presented in the filmmakers preferred aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=247 (391 words)

	An interview with director Richard Linklater: "You can't hold back the human spirit"
		The whole film world is this incredible mix of optimism--they hope every film is good--and greed and fear.
		The way that films are released now it's hard to be a word-of-mouth film, where it grows, the way a hit single used to grow.
		For every film festival it got accepted to, it was turned down by two, by all the major festivals across the board.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/mar1998/link-m27.shtml (2300 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Slacker: The Criterion Collection
		Written and directed by Richard Linklater, Slacker (1991) creeps through a lazy day in Austin, Texas, jumping from one group of wayward intellectuals, hipsters, freaks, and/or burnouts to another like a stream of consciousness through the spectrum of post-college ennui.
		And yet, Slacker is not critical of its subjects; unlike the "slackers" themselves, Linklater affably lacks cynicism and affectionately captures their often amusing, carefree and listlessly self-indulgent post-modern ways, which include destroying the very methods of media (a typewriter, a TV, and, finally, a movie camera) that inform their way of life.
		Slacker works best on its initial viewing, whereas on repeat viewings some of the less crazy dialogue borders on monotonous.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/slacker_cc.q.shtml (380 words)

	one location films - IndieTalk - Indie Film Forum
		So i was sitting here thinking of films i loved with just one or two or even three locations and i realised i need to see some more.
		Dog Soldiers, all of the filming done outside of the house was filmed in the woods.
		I've seen the Evil Dead films, love them, I think people don't really mind if horror films only have one location, cause there are a lot of trapped in a room, trapped in a house etc, horror films that have been very popular.
	www.indietalk.com /showthread.php?t=4570 (873 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Relax, it's National Slacker Day
		A second National Slacker Day was being held today to encourage people to cut down on their working hours and spend more time relaxing.
		Organisers said the aim of National Slacker Day 2 was to remind people that life did not revolve around the office and a day spent in bed or in front of the television could improve their health and happiness.
		Slacker Day coincides with the publication of a survey of the working habits of more than 3,000 workers, in which 32% of respondents confessed to spending at least an hour a day surfing the Internet for non-work related reasons.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,655418,00.html (341 words)

	Joyce - Influence in Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The following are a few references to films and TV shows that have been influenced by Joyce, or have at least been found guilty of namedropping.
		Though may of his films are touched by an almost Romantic nostalgia, more then a few are stylistically quite postmodern, serving up witty reflections about art, celebrity, memory, and filmmaking itself.
		A Warren Beatty film with a screenplay by novelist William Peter Blatty.
	www.themodernword.com /joyce/bookcovers/joyce_influence_film.html (1294 words)

	BookBlog: Slacker trilogy
		As a particpant and observer of Austin's cafe culture, I expected Slacker to be a touchstone to Austin's cafe culture, and so it was.
		High Fidelity is the slacker film turned into a sitcom, but I liked it best anyway.
		It was an attempt to capture Austin slacker culture literally in a sitcom.
	alevin.com /weblog/archives/001506.html (1169 words)

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