A League of Their Own

"...before a volcanic eruption. Often, the town that Richard Linklater's Slacker helped put on the film map more closely..."

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Austin Ch30nicles

John Pierson recalls when the Chronicle published Rick Linklater's Dazed and Confused diary

"...been involved in the sale and national release of Slacker, befriended Richard Linklater, and spent time in Austin, it..."

Sept. 2, 2011 Screens Feature

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)/Slacker (1990)..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Luv Doc Recommends: Lebowski Fest

Stubb's, Friday, October 9, 2009

"...It's been nearly a generation since Rick Linklater's seminal film established Austin as the center of..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Manifest Destiny

Linklater doc premieres at Sundance

"...2016 Sundance Film Festival, and the reception to Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny was positively raucous...."

Feb. 5, 2016 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

The Animated Childhood of Milo Coy in Apollo 10½

The young Austin actor takes one giant leap in Richard Linklater's tale of the space race

"...he was cast as the lead in a Richard Linklater movie. The director behind classics such as Slacker and..."

March 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Page Two: Lights, Camera, Print Media

October 1985 was the strangest month

"...Richard Linklater's decision in 1991, after the success of Slacker, to..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Most Likely to Endure

With the exception of the era-specific music, what the kids like in Dazed and Confused is pretty much the same thing kids like now, which goes a long way in explaining why, 10 years later, the video's a staple in college dorms, owned by kids who weren't conceived yet in the Seventies and couldn't buy a ticket to the R-rated movie when it came out in the Nineties.

"...has to feel good. Not just validation: vindication. Richard Linklater's film by no means tanked at the box office..."

May 30, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

So Long, Slug

"...The Rick Linklater crowd counted on the list of locals who..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Thanks for the Memories

'Chronicle' staff past and present on 20 years of covering SXSW Film

"...head to the West Coast. It wasn't until after Rick Linklater released Slacker that things changed. Not only did..."

March 1, 2013 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Film News

Action: The state Senate and House incentive bills are in committee; a 'Scanner' delay; plus, Marc English, Joe Conway, and Sandra Bullock

"...Warner Independent has pushed back the release of Richard Linklater's Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly from September..."

April 1, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...of Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, Richard Linklater's Austin-produced and -animated story of growing up in the..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

512 + 1

Non-native filmmaker Kevin Ford got here as fast as he could

"...are going to die off," says Jake, the procrastinating, post-Slacker proto-Austin partier in Kevin Ford's bitingly smart, frequently funny,..."

May 9, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Remembrance of Things Weird

Nancy Higgins' 'Viva Les Amis'

"...free smokes from the perfectly surly waitresses, or d) Rick Linklater shooting Slacker...."

April 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Never Grow Up

Austin is a town that brings out the "lost boy" in everyone.

"...as the model for the figure of "Oat Willie." Slacker director Rick Linklater has some Peter Pan in him,..."

May 10, 2002 Features Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Film

Actor Chris Doubek and his comedy of riches

"...and he's far from laconic. "Ever since I saw Slacker in 1989 or '90. A lot of those early..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Here Comes the Judge

Beavis and Butt-head's Hollywood Score

"...AC: Were you surprised to find out that Patrick Stewart [Star Trek's Captain Picard] was a big Beavis..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Gospel Postponed

"...of the ZSTC production of Beehive, Kenneth Williams, and Roderick Sanford. Looking for Characters Anyone who daydreams of having..."

Jan. 12, 1996 Arts Column

Say Anything

Eric Bogosian Comes Clean

"...by Richard Linklater..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Arts Feature

Love and Cinema: Janet and John Pierson

Texas Film Awards honorees and indie cinema's fairy godparents Janet and John Pierson look back on 40 years at the movies

"...hands-on with pivotal films of the era: Working Girls, Slacker, The Thin Blue Line, Clerks, Go Fish, and Michael..."

March 3, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Decade Under the Influence

10 Years of SXSW Film

"...centers in the country. The most important event was Rick Linklater's decision to stay in Austin after the critical..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature

Filmmaker and Film-Educator Paul Stekler Says Goodbye to UT

As he delivers his final class, the former head of UT-Austin's Department of Radio-Television-Film gives a commencement speech looking back on a career without a plan

"...small but vibrant film community that would build on Rick Linklater's Slacker and Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, along with..."

May 6, 2022 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

Fast, Cheap, and in Control

Cost-of-living increases are making local artists do more with less

"...stories as Joe Sears and Jaston Williams' Greater Tuna, Rick Linklater's Slacker, and Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi. These new..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Career Hooligan Looks Back, But Mostly Forward

Robert Rodriguez on a lifetime of innovation and the movie, 'El Mariachi,' that started it all

"...out here, 30 or so minutes due west of Fredericksburg, Texas. I'm in a working rock quarry watching one..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

RIP Dobie Theater

The Austin landmark is set to close on Sunday

"...housing left was at Dobie. Rich kids and frat pricks, I sniffed. On top of a food court, no..."

Aug. 17, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW News

"...worth of beer, then hailed one of those weird bicycle-rickshaw things and proceeded to cart the heady load back..."

March 15, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Austin Avalanche of Rock & Roll!

When IRS Records' 'The Cutting Edge' Came to Town and Made Me Want to, Too

"...up), the forces of random coincidence put me behind Slacker-man Rick Linklater in line at the Fed Ex office..."

March 16, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Page Two

Lost Austin behind us, Smart Growth ahead?

"...Cindy Widner for doing the actual legwork on the Slacker map. While everybody did the work (and I think..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

The Austin Film Society announces ticket sales for the locally filmed Miss Congeniality benefiting the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund, and other news, workshops, and gatherings of interest to the film community.

"...you think I'm kidding, please recall what happened to Rick Linklater's fledgling film career when then-Dobie owner Scott Dinger..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

American Filmmaker

Chris Smith's American Movie depicts one man's passionate struggle to make a film.

"...see that he wasn't just another guy who saw Slacker or Clerks and decided to go make independent films...."

Oct. 15, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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