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A loopy and distinctive excursion into the mind of Richard Linklater.

Writer/director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, A Scanner Darkly) takes the audience on a psychedelic mind-trip into the world of dreaming. A man wanders around in his own dream meeting various people who preach the meaning and purpose of life and has multiple false awakenings in the process. He begins to question what is real and what is...

I'm not ashamed to say that one of my personal all-time favorite comedies is School of Rock .

Dina Flores' two-year search for a new home for her bilingual day care on Congress Avenue, Escuelita del Alma, is over.

“Marijuana is an introspective, philosophical drug, so it can actually be helpful for watching films in that it heightens your awareness”

Harold and Kumar, left and Cheech and Chong, right. We're beating the Criterion Collection to the punch with a week of articles on the continuing social significance of Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. via National Post

“I get older, they stay the same age.”

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man," Wooderson declared in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused . via Boxoffice

My First Movie: Take Two - Ten Celebrated Directors Talk about Their First Film Edited by Stephen Lowenstein Pantheon, $26, 286 pages In theory, this book should be a wet dream for would-be filmmakers. via Charleston City Paper

“The art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

Horton Hears a Who! and Chicago 10, both opening today, and that international hit Persepolis demonstrate what animation lovers have known for a dozen years. The resurgence of full-length cartoons, like that of documentaries, owes less to technical innovation than to artists' - and audience's - needs to extend the range of contemporary moviemaking.

The result has been features that try to slake our thirst for poetic ways of escape - and for transformative visions of reality.

Since 2001, when Richard Linklater made Waking Life, animation has been moving on dual tracks, between the jolly, zoolike landscapes of most computer-generated animation - Horton is an ebullient example - and the brooding or eccentric textures of drawn artwork mixed with CGI or hybrid techniques like computer rotoscoping and motion capture, which digitize real physical performances - as in Chicago 10. Read more

“There's too much similarities between the two.”

The Celebrity September 11 Conspiracy Club. It's an exclusive group that's free to join, but membership comes with some baggage. via The Washington Times

“Slacker", directed by Linklater 1988 First credit as 1st assistant camera on "DOA”

This director of photography is best known for his work with "Gen-X" director Richard Linklater. via Hollywood.com

“Elizabeth') with Nair, who apprenticed in documentaries stateside. He did his Kusturica interview during a terrifying ride through the country ('He may be fast, but he's very safe”

AS we know from decades of both anecdotes and common sense, film directing is a uniquely challenging art form. via Los Angeles Times

RICHARD LINKLATER'S beloved 1991 comedy casts an affectionate eye over a group of disenchanted, disillusioned and dispossessed people living in a close-knit community in Austin, Texas. via The Daily Record

Certainly this publication has not been shy about trumpeting the discovery of a mint print of Eagle Pennell's 1978 independent regional feature, The Whole Shootin' Match. via The Austin Chronicle

“I tell people it's probably the best time ever to be making an indie film”

There's no business like show business, and when comes to filming in Austin, business is good. via News 8 Austin

'THE Whole Shootin' Match," the once-lost film that Robert Redford said inspired him to start the Sundance Institute, has been found and restored and is unreeling through Wednesday at Lincoln Center's Walter ... via New York Post

“No, I mean do you have change for the machine.”

If you remember Richard Linklater's SLACKER, there is a scene with "Happy Go Lucky Guy". This is the man who goes to the diner and has the encounter with the Looney Tunes quoting lady. via Talking Moviezzz

Quote of the day: "They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway." -- Journalist Hunter S. Thompson Brett Morgen's Chicago 10 Trailer! By Jack on ... via DTheatre.com

Alternative Views #536: SLACKERS ALL: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD LINKLATER An interview with Austin's Richard Linklater who made three very successful films: "Slacker," "Dazed and Confused," and "Before ... via Internet Archive

In the early 1990s, an obscure independent film captured Hollywood's attention. Richard Linklater's Slacker is a sort of stream-of-consciousness stroll through the streets of Austin, Texas, the type of movie ... via Anniston Star

“Waking Life"; also was one of the animators on the film 1993 Film debut, in "Dazed and Confused", directed by Richard Linklater 1987 TV series debut, in "The Perkins Family”

This lanky, dark-haired young actor has appeared in films about troubled or aimless youth. via Hollywood.com

While watching the baseball playoffs, I noticed some commercials that used a cool technique that turned video into lifelike cartoons. via The J-Walk Blog