Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...Before Sunrise (1995); SubUrbia (1996); The Newton Boys (1998); Waking Life (2001); Tape (2001); Live From Shiva's Dance Floor..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Short Cuts

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then sandwich chain Schlotzsky's is practically kissing Bob Sabiston's feet.

"...things, the ground- and mind-breaking digimation in Rick Linklater's Waking Life -- isn't behind "that new series of horrible..."

July 26, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Wake up, and smell the heaping accolades on Richard Linklater.

"...the name of "filler," but instead, will Richard Linklater's Waking Life end up as one of the three films..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

E Is for Everything

Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.

"...with Rick [following Before Sunrise, The Newton Boys, and Waking Life], so there's a trust that is there. On..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Tape

Tape is a confined microcosm: three characters, one room, and a whole lot of head-trippery. Old high school friends reunite years later in a dingy Michigan motel room for a night of tricky revelations.

"...cause for celebration. Tape couldn't be more different from Waking Life, the director's other film currently in release, but..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 8-14

"...CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking." Oglala Lakota medicine man Black Elk said that, and..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Now Streaming in Austin: Coming Undone With Minnow Mountain

Resurrecting Rotoscoping for the Amazon Prime mindbender

"...after Richard Linklater’s two forays into the form, 2001’s Waking Life and 2006’s A Scanner Darkly. It’s almost a..."

Nov. 20, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Glover Gill’s Last Tango

Smithville swing savant explains why he’s throwing in the towel

"...tango performer and scoring Richard Linklater’s celebrated 2001 film Waking Life. Gill’s got a very cool-sounding, but not cool-feeling..."

Dec. 28, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: Shakey Graves’ Active Dream Life

“I figured it was important to rebreak the mold sooner than later”

"...album, but it has me thinking about another movie, Waking Life, in which the protagonist can't wake up...."

May 4, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

King of the Hill

It's lights, camera, action for the Hill Country Film Festival

"...film sure to inspire a tear and a chuckle. Waking..."

April 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

What to Expect From Game On Austin

A clickable guide to the participating studios and their games

"...more interplanetary, Tiger Style Games beings their handheld game Waking Mars with them. Recently nominated for the UK’s GameCity..."

Oct. 18, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Short Cuts

Nude models, big awards, big movies, dead rock stars. Just another week in Austin film.

"...synapses back online after having your mind blown by Waking Life, the official announcement/open secret regarding Richard Linklater's next..."

May 14, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Locals Paul Beck and Jason Archer animate Molotov's new video.

"...on the strength of their work on Richard Linklater's Waking Life. (That's a trend in the making: Divya Srinivasan,..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Page Two

The movement to replace traditional film stock with High Definition video is under way, and some notable local directors are leading the charge.

"...the other end of the scale, with Tape and Waking Life Richard Linklater demonstrated the enormous creative and financial..."

June 21, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Short Cuts

Would you like Raisinets and a tall skinny latte with your movie?

"...guy. With any luck it'll be Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Waking Life, which is up against, among others, Final Fantasy:..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Two Weeks in Another Town

The Toronto Film Festival was bifurcated by news of crisis; festival attendees reacted with the rest of the world and questioned the relevance of film in the face of events.

"...week's events. That movie is Richard Linklater's animated feature Waking Life, which stars Linklater's doppelganger Wiley Wiggins (also the..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Alive and Kicking

Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.

"...Waking Life is an animated feature written and directed by..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

In the Wee Hours: Mister Sandman ...

Salvage Vanguard Theater has dared to revive the radio adventure serial in its action-packed original The Intergalactic Nemesis and, hard as it may be to believe in this age of Austin Powers spoofery, the company plays it relatively straight and gets impressive results.

"...novelist Gerald Bullett's assertion that we all live a dreaming/waking double life. It's as if a swinging door was..."

June 2, 2000 Arts Review by Dawn Davis

Letters at 3AM

How broadband technologies will affect modern life.

"...have, everything that's around you. And share it. Every waking and sleeping moment in your life will be recorded...."

March 3, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Exhibitionism

The Whimsy:dream on

"...which the dream was out of step with the waking world, what happened in it was so intense that..."

March 27, 1998 Arts Review

Priscilla

Measured journey behind closed doors of rock & roll's most famous marriage

"...couples initially amuses as the baffled teenager sleepwalks the waking dream of being courted by one of the world’s..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Eternal Memory

An extraordinary exploration of living with dementia

"...Memory. When the film opens, a woman is gently waking a man from sleep. There are no title cards,..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Review: Davis Gallery’s “Late Summer Dreams”

Don't sleep on this new group show

"...of the gallery with vividly wrought renditions of the waking world and more...."

Aug. 25, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fear

Pandemic horror is overshadowed by better films about fear

"...witch who forces them to live out their worst waking nightmares...."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Women Talking

Sarah Polley finds stunning drama in one simple night of conversations in a barn

"...the barn interspersed with sobering flashbacks of dazed women waking up in their beds, mystifyingly covered in blood and..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bill Callahan on Escaping YTI⅃AƎЯ

“Every album I’m just a blank slate waking up to creation”

"...things I’ve done in the past. It’s more like waking up in the morning. You know, when you wake..."

Nov. 2, 2022 Music Post by Julian Towers

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 28 - November 3

"...in the land of dreams. Your decisions in the waking world will improve as you give yourself maximum rest...."

Oct. 28, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Aviary

Desert-set cult drama is a little dry

"...exodus through the desolate terrain plays like a hallucinatory waking dream in which Jillian and Blair increasingly struggle to..."

April 29, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Richard Linklater: In Defense of Animation

The Apollo 10 1/2 director show it's not just for kids

"...the long tradition of princesses and fairytales. His first, Waking Life, was a surrealist dream: his follow-up, A Scanner..."

April 9, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Compartment No. 6

Strangers on a train form a tense bond in this Finnish drama

"...eats sausages with his hands, terrorizing Laura in a waking nightmare from which she unsuccessfully tries to escape by..."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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