Waking Life

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

"...by: Richard Linklater. Starring: Wiley Wiggins. Early on in Waking Life, a character announces -- maybe even warns --..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Playback: Shakey Graves’ Active Dream Life

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

"...kept a dream journal for a very active dream life. There's always been a lot of discussion about dreaming..."

May 4, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

'The Sporting Life': … or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving to Lose

"...of the Shuffleboard Table, has been in my nightmares, waking me up in the middle of the night with..."

Oct. 25, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

Life After a Night at the Rio

The Rio Motel is gone, but the memories linger.

"...I had just invested a significant portion of my waking life -- and a tiny portion of the sleeping..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Making Curiosity a Reality With 'Waking Mars'

Mars Mania helps a locally developed game

"...That game, released earlier this year, is appropriately titled Waking Mars and set in a decreasingly fantastical world where..."

Aug. 22, 2012 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Life Changing!

"...alarms on my cell. Yea I slept to that waking up by the internal clock at 8:22am. I popped..."

Oct. 23, 2007 Promotions Post

A Life of Destinations

"...Well. There was no fear in the dream, but, waking, I waited for the fear to hit. It was..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood

"...coaxing, listening, laughing, starving themselves in protest, hiding, sleeping, waking up to crying, crying, rocking, yelling, leaving, calling, feeding,..."

May 7, 1999 Books Feature

15 Breakfast Sandwiches in Austin Worth Waking Up For

Fuel your mornings without emptying your pockets

"...cheese, which sets the sandwich at just $11, but life's short and what's a breakfast sando without cheese? Wright..."

July 2, 2021 Food Feature by Evan Rodriguez

Waking the Dead

Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Centro-matic's Will Johnson find common ground.

"...to success: embracing uncertainty in the face of death, life's one absolute certainty next to the wrath of the..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

A Dream Collaboration: Richard Linklater and 30 animators team up to produce a startling, surreal new film.

"...of Austin's Paramount Theatre introducing his new animated movie Waking Life before the hometown audience. Linklater, now with eight..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Richard Linklater: dream is destiny

Doc on local filmmaker is a thoughtful portrait

"...thoughts, ideas, and deep, daily observations on his pre-Slacker life. Linklater always dreamed of being either a writer or,..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tower

Austin-made doc re-creates the UT Tower massacre with stunningly powerful immediacy

"...Mountain team, rotoscoped the footage à la Richard Linklater’s Waking Life. Then he combined the animation with archival live..."

Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Year of the Fish

Year of the Fish is an animated fairy tale for adults that transposes the story of Cinderella to a Chinatown massage parlor.

"...In much the same fashion as Richard Linklater's films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, which made use of..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Five Obstructions

This sublime documentary, which recounts a bizarre battle of creative wits between Danish film director Jørgen Leth and the notorious Lars von Trier, also features a segment animated by Waking Life's technical wizard Bob Sabiston.

"...the services of Flat Black Films animator Bob Sabiston (Waking Life), with the result being the most remarkable and..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Linklater's Lunar Latest Coming to Netflix

Apollo 10 1/2 to be animated by Austin's Minnow Mountain

"...just announced that his next picture, a return to Waking Life-style animation called Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age..."

July 16, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Archer, Beck Hit Bullseye, Score Emmy Nomination

Austin animators nominated for local doc 'The Eyes of Me'

"...and Paul Beck, they were working on Richard Linklater's Waking Life and making short, sharp, subversive animations on the..."

Aug. 22, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

Linklater’s charming animated daydream of space race Houston

"...Couple that with his return to rotoscope animation after Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, and you have the..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Strong and Talented and Young

Austin's Raw Paw collective inhales life, exhales art

"...1986; he turned into a cloud in Richard Linklater's Waking Life (2001); he opened for Laurie Anderson at the..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Divya Srinivasan Is Living
the Dream of Art

The multimedia creator's work wakes a world's imagination

"...a phone call from Ira Glass of This American Life while she was shopping in Target wasn't a thing..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Call It a Draw

Last year's eye-catching Earthlink commercials imitated local animator Bob Sabiston's -- and his software's -- style. A little too much, in his opinion.

"...the creative force behind the highly anticipated animated film Waking Life, directed by Richard Linklater, due out this fall..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Securing the Substance

Richard Linklater on his adaptation of A Scanner Darkly

"...(as was also the case with Linklater's equally heady Waking Life), A Scanner Darkly eclipses even Ridley Scott's seminal..."

July 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...knee-jerk answer, in that if I could spend my life... When you're on set with Rick, or a handful..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Richard Linklater's Memories of the Moon in Apollo 10½

The filmmaker's childhood in space race-era Houston recalled through Austin-made animation

"...he's also pushed boundaries as an animation director with Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. Now his third animated..."

March 25, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Waking Life Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Record Review

"...Waking Life Original Motion Picture Soundtrack(TVT) Don't let the animation..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

To the eyes of Austin animator Bob Sabiston, those ubiquitous Earthlink.com commercials by Klasky Csupo Inc. (the creators of Rugrats) look an awful lot like the work created by his proprietary software, which is being used in the new Richard Linklater feature Waking Life.

"...Santa Claus Conquers the Martians Waking Nightmare Life Dept.: Last week we mentioned the current..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...that really changed things, though – a slice of life that captured Austin’s zeitgeist and defined Austin weirdness for..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Once Upon a Time in Austin

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

"...July 2001-February 2002: The Life of David Gale (Universal Pictures) D: Alan Parker; S:..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

I Am a Sex Addict

If you leave the theatre with that awkward too-much-information feeling after peering into the director's self-exposed psyche, you will also remember his high-wire act that combines fact and fiction, drama and self-deprecating humor, honesty and self-delusion.

"...remember Caveh Zahedi from his segment in Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, in which he delightfully discourses on film theory...."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inching to the Finish

Bob Sabiston's winding road to Inchworm Animation

"...the rotoscoping technology most notably used in Richard Linklater's Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly. Or maybe it's best..."

May 27, 2011 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

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