Waking Life

This animated journey through one character's dreams is a stirring, motivational, and metaphysical head trip.

"...conversation (a narrative device lifted from Linklater's 1991 film, Slacker). The dreamscape consists of a string of vignettes, featuring..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Page Two

Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says "get well" to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and "farewell" to former staffer Sarah Hepola.

"...(Return of the Secaucus 7, 1980) to Rick Linklater (Slacker, 1991). Chilly Scenes was a vibrant, alive film. It..."

June 8, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Sony Pics faux crix, 10-year Slacker reunion.

"...been 10 years since Richard Linklater's groundbreaking independent film Slacker threw the spotlight on that titular Austin subculture and..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone still dead, bands still touring, Dick Price getting bigger than Bob Schneider

"...down all his original cast and crew members from Slacker, and though most of them are still, by definition,..."

April 27, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naturaltown

Vegetarian and Vegan Spots in Austin

"...basic and all pretty good. And despite its obvious slacker allegiance (there is even a bean plate called the..."

March 9, 2001 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Five Easy Pieces

"...and Lois Smith. This is one of those “original slacker” stories about a gifted pianist from the privileged classes..."

Aug. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Holiday in Town

"...Pearl Street betrays little of its semisecret history as Slacker set, slacker co-op, or scene of legendarily debauched early-Eighties..."

May 26, 2000 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

Public Notice

"Public Notice" is the sassy yet totally sincere public service column.

"...3. Why yes, our boss was in Slacker!..."

March 17, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

How You Became a Criminal

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

"...It's not like I've been a slacker …..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Nick Barbaro

Book Reviews

The Politics of Prose

"...but if you aren't a dedicated fan of the slacker school of urban angst literature, then you may not..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

More Than a Pair of Jokers

While she was growing up, Anne S. Lewis thought of Randy and Jason Sklar as just her crazy twin cousins. But now, after an MTV sitcom and success on the comedy club circuit, she's thinking her relatives may be more than just a pair of jokers in her family deck.

"...might make it into the sequel to the movie Slacker -- Slacker 2: Electric Boogaloo. The camera follows around..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Arts Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Rock Opera

Locally filmed micro-budget feature tells a picaresque story about a punk guitarist who is trying to sell enough pot to finance a low-rent tour for his band. His journey instead takes him on a tour through the college-town underground.

"...many find similarities between Ray's work and that of Slacker-vintage Richard Linklater, I believe a more analogous talent, and..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Scanlines

Mallrats

"...influence of Richard Linklater, reminds me most of a slacker Preston Sturges. Gorgeous, gushing speeches pour out of his..."

July 16, 1999 Screens Feature

Further Reflections

"...unfortunate bagman. Rock Opera turns into a hysterically funny slacker caper movie filled with a stale-beer Austin-underbelly ambianceof pawnshops,..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

A League of Their Own

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

March 12, 1999 Screens Feature by Jesse Sublett

Dude, It's Mitch Hedberg!

"...laid-back delivery, long hair, and sleepy eyes evoke the slacker/stoner label. His material, however, is intelligent, provocative, and very..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

Featuring Texas

Films From Around the State

"...Kirk believes the Slacker-esque nature of the pleasantly off-kilter love triangle at the..."

March 13, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Into the Pink

Interview With Filmmaker and Novelist Gus Van Sant

"...fact, all those kids in Richard Linklater's early film Slacker - and Linklater himself - remind me of Jack..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Screens Feature by Sid Moody

Postmarks

"...just reviewed the Austin Stories pilot series, (in true slacker form), in one sitting. What the hell is this..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Column

Geek Love

Protector of Cyberspace Mike Godwin

"...It's typical comic book fare -- slacker and misfit UT computer hacker/law student and former Daily..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

How to Get an Education in Film

Austin Film Society Projections

"...Daniel, who would go on to make the movies Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Before Sunrise together. These two..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Screens Feature

The Discovery Incubator

"...accidentally become an unpaid extra on the set of Slacker II. Although the Discovery Incubator itself could prove to..."

June 16, 1995 Music Feature

Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater takes one of the oldest romantic formulas in the book – strangers on a train – and creates a soulful melding of hearts, minds, and camera.

"...and choice of characters. As in his previous films, Slacker and Dazed and Confused he still maintains a great..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clerks

Kevin Smith's feature debut is an outrageous, profane, and deliriously dead-on comedy that follows a day in the life of two young convenience/video store clerks.

"...convenience/video store clerks. O'Halloran is Dante Hicks, a 22-year-old slacker extraordinaire who receives a call from his boss one..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reality Bites

Stiller's first feature film as a director captured the zeitgeist and is imbued with an honest and sarcastic wit.

"...are a motley collection of Gen X misfit/archetypes, a musician/slacker, an oversexed Gap manager, and an emerging homosexual, respectively...."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

El Mariachi

"...Gómez, Peter Marquardt and Reinol Martinez. From Richard Linklater's Slacker to Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, Austin is fast becoming..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gus Baldwin, the Sketch, and a New Era of Old School

Genre-agnostic quartet debuts with classic rock energy and brassy punk politics

"...his solo material – tracks like “Beautiful Delilah” and “Slacker’s Prom,” which now appear on The Sketch – constituted..."

Feb. 7, 2025 Music Feature by Kyra Bruce

Album Review: Bernardo Mountainair, Dark Times in the Land of Plenty

Nolan Potter guitarist Dillon Fernandez issues his own psych-prog lament

"...say”) with the same serene quality as that Canadian slacker. Later, a tinny drum machine beat propels “Deine Mütze..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Qmmunity: Take It Easy, But! Take It

Don’t be afraid to slow down and slack off when you need to

"...in the morning. Writing a column about being a slacker rather than doing an interview because I have pre-holiday..."

Nov. 29, 2024 Column by James Scott

Ravyn Lenae, Spoon, the Magnetic Fields, and More Crucial Concerts

Plan your week in music with a little help from these recommendations

"...Until last month! Surviving the Dream bottles the same slacker charge, easily the band’s best since its debut. And..."

Oct. 18, 2024 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

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