August 1995 www.amazon.com Watch the full interview: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Slacker (1991) is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, “Slacker is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day. He wants to show us a certain strata of campus life at the present time.” In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, “Slacker is a 14-course meal composed entirely of desserts or, more accurately, a conventional film whose narrative has been thrown out and replaced by enough bits of local color to stock five years’ worth of ordinary movies.” Entertainment Weekly gave the film an “A-” rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, “Slacker has a marvelously low-key observational cool … the movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands.” In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, “This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging.” Rolling Stone magazine’s Peter Travers wrote, “What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action. Linklater has the gift of a true satirist: He …
Thursday, October 23. The Mutantville Players attended a screening of the top ten finalists of the American Zombie Film Contest hosted by the Light Factory of Charlotte, NC. All of the entries were entertaining. Some were funny and some were shocking – but they were all good. Devil Comes Down was selected to advance to the finals of the competition and will be judged by George A. Romero in February 2009. The Mutantville Players would like to wish our fellow filmmakers luck in the contest, but if we said we hope you win – you know we would be lying. www.myspace.com/streebo www.myspace.com/mutantville www.mutantville.com www.lightfactory.org
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