Cassady, Kerouac, and Other Dharma Bums Back Beats by Jennifer Scoville and Dave Cook

"...being asked to go out and spend our hard-earned slacker dollars on a whole slew of new publications about..."

May 26, 1995 Books 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

Dazed and Confused

Linklater's 1976-set movie is one of the smartest and funniest coming-of-age films ever.

"...is Linklater's follow-up effort to his low-budget independent feature Slacker, which put Austin on the lifestyle map and brought..."

Sept. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shameless

"...triangle. Rhodes (whom you may remember from Richard Linklater's Slacker) is an architecture grad student who meets Nogales and..."

June 4, 1993 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

Johnny Suede

"...and withered carrots in his dingy fridge, and his slacker subsistence derived from painting buildings with a buddy (Levels)..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Singles

Love in the Nineties: no drugs and the sex is scary. Actually, Cameron Crowe documents the habits of a generation that adapted.

"...and attitude, Crowe seems to have drawn heavily from Slacker for inspiration, but in his insecure reliance on traditional..."

Sept. 25, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Roadside Prophets

"...Degrees, Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth, and Rick Linklater's Slacker, among others. John Doe, a Los Angeles factory worker..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Matter of Degrees

"...The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, and yes, even Austin's own Slacker are proving that you don't need millions of dollars..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slacker

Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.

"...Directed by: Richard Linklater. Starring: a cast of hundreds. Slacker: The title of Richard Linklater's stroll through a day..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

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