Film News

Incentives in the Senate: Does Steve Ogden want to censor filmmakers shooting in Texas?

"...retrospective at this year's Filmfest München in Munich, where Slacker had its international premiere way back when… I tipped..."

May 11, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Developing Stories: Pioneering at Mueller

Urban trailblazers aren't just settling Downtown

"...is relevant to all Austinites – rich, poor, or slacker...."

March 23, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Full Plate

In planning your SXSW itinerary, make room for these 10 dining destinations

"...doing all right; three to five is a good slacker score; five to seven indicates serious immersion in local..."

March 16, 2007 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Wednesday Sleepers

The 'Chronicle' says see these SXSW acts directly afterwards

"...McFeely, aka Simple Kid, amends with music that's complex: slacker-smart lyrics, electronic indulgences, Parsons-esque country, and Kinks-ian pop. In..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature

Community Access

The groundbreaking Austin Past and Present archive projects means free museums, movies, music, and more all over town

"...center, and true to local custom, it's a veritable Slacker of Austinites, requiring 24 pages of credits to list..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Austin's Only Downside?

Does not compute!

"...We're also, let it be known, the "inspiration for Slacker, epicenter of the first EFF [Electronic Freedom Foundation] battle,..."

Jan. 8, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Music DVDs

"...Jon Cook; and Cynthia Nelson. Half Reality Bites, half Slacker, and packaged with Hawley and Galinsky's 1997 Spanish feature..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Crew Stories

Jeff Schwan, stuntman

"...Austin was hardly the moviemaking town it is today. Slacker and El Mariachi were still a decade away. What's..."

Dec. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Toddy Burton

Desk Set

Its inaugural class – equipped with cameras, computers, and expert instruction – wades into a sea of possibility

"...Cinemaker later nabbing the heartfelt D. Montgomery Award at Slacker's 10-year reunion and a brace of festival prize and..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Development

From Cinemaker to the Austin School of Film

"...annual D. Montgomery Award presented to Cinemaker Co-op at Slacker 10-year reunion, Paramount Theatre...."

Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature

Awesome Color

"...The collective hue of Awesome Color blends the slacker psychosis of Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, Blue Cheer's "Summertime..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Page Two: Seasons Change, and So Do We

Our sports blog commences, 'SXSW Presents' continues, and Priest unmasks the past

"...the legendary campus coffeehouse unavoidably featured in Richard Linklater's Slacker...."

Oct. 6, 2006 Column by Louis Black

TCB

A pictorial history of TCB's, and the modern Austin music scene's, formative years

"...when bands emerged from the blissful haze of the Slacker years to realize they might actually be able to..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Searching for Once Upon a Time

Why Monument Valley – again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer – is such a magnetic place for me

"...College. He was also a friend of Richard Linklater's (Slacker is dedicated to his memory) and a driving force..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Seasons' greetings

"...high kids. Tom Everett Scott plays Wyatt Cole, a "slacker hero," working as a paramedic, saving lives, and trashing..."

June 9, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Dazed and Confused

'That was me making the movie – being initiated into how you get a film made with someone else's money at a studio level. I felt I was the one being paddled and running for my life.'

"...into its preservationist bunker. Criterion's extensive, two-disc archiving of Slacker in 2004 represented yet more ammo for Austin's Richard..."

May 26, 2006 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film

Interviews and reviews

"...Joel David Moore's deadpan performance as an (almost) reformed slacker...."

March 17, 2006 Screens Feature by Jess Sauer

Buzz Kill

Director Kelly Reichardt's keeping quiet on the darling of Sundance and Rotterdam

"...first time. Kurt's that curiously not-contradictory hyphenate, the aging hippie-hipster-activist-slacker. Over the course of 76 minutes, they get drunk..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...• What hath Slacker wrought? MovieMaker magazine, in its annual Top Ten Cities..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature

Film News

The top stories of 2005

"...chosen for both the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. "Slacker probably is why half the people came to the..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Top Shelf

Austin's latest offerings for a little kitchen reading

"...to me is more like a memoir à la Slacker, with recipes for many of his favorite and most..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Food Feature by Claudia Alarcón

Life and Work, Light and Dark

How the legacy of Townes Van Zandt more than met its match in 'some dumb New York girl'

"...film was Margaret's baby: Just ask cinematographer Lee Daniel (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset), her boyfriend and the..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

No Family Is an Island

The Piersons on 'Reel Paradise'

"...at plucking independent films from obscurity (famously Richard Linklater's Slacker, Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line, and Michael Moore's..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Film News

What does Katrina mean for the Texas film industry? Plus, bidding goodbye to the Austin actress with the most beautiful eyes, Tomi Barrett.

"...Walker says. "It's like when we made this film Slacker years ago. I knew I could count on my..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...I do business in Eldorado and Schleicher (locally pronounced slacker, I mean schlacker) County. The people don't know what..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Column

What Will the Impact Be?

"...I do business in Eldorado and Schleicher (locally pronounced slacker, I mean schlacker) County. The people don't know what..."

Aug. 12, 2005 Postmarks

Poi Dog Pondering

"...along with several band members, made its debut in Slacker? Poi's Austin tenure: fine idea, pale execution...."

July 15, 2005 Music Review by David Lynch

StallGraffiti ATX

StallGraffiti ATX throws short, original plays from local writers into a full-length variety show that revolves thematically around the porcelain palace

"...toilet bowl water movement. Robert Fisher's script reveals a slacker convenience store clerk's weed-influenced philosophical ponderings on the tactless..."

June 17, 2005 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Little Athletes, Big Dreams

Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition – and big money

"...of "a career" – especially for me, a semisuccessful slacker who has managed to avoid not only a career..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Dinosaur Jr.

"...holding pattern of self-loathing and inner-band strife. Yes, before "slacker" made it into our vocabulary, the Amherst trio was..."

May 27, 2005 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

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