Tag: slacker

Toronto 2025 Review: COPPER, The Driest Slacker-Comedy Ever Made

The latest film from particular and peculiar Canadian-Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda might flirt at times with a plot, but to view it this way is actually fool's gold.   It is much more, specifically, a study of character in a...

SXSW 2021 Interview: CLERK Director Malcolm Ingram On Pop Icon Kevin Smith

In 1992 a young man from New Jersey, US, traveled to Vancouver, Canada to study film and pursue his dream. Since he was little, his father instilled in him a love for movies. Then a particular film, Richard Linklater's Slacker,...

Blu-ray Review: Criterion Packages Love and Time in Linklater's BEFORE TRILOGY

The years shall run like rabbits… -W.H. Auden  From the start, before Richard Linklater conducted his grand experiment on the nature of time - Boyhood - he was out to capture the great container of all experience: time - good...