Slacker (1991) DVD Details

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New high-definition digital transfer

with restored image and sound supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel

made from original 16 mm film elements

Three audio commentaries featuring Richard Linklater and members and the cast and crew

Casting tapes featuring select auditions from the over one-hundred-member cast

with an essay from production manager/casting director Anne Walker-McBay

An early film treatment

Home movies

Ten-minute trailer for a documentary about the landmark Austin café

Les Amis

which served as location for several scenes in Slacker

Stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos

English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired

Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)

Linklater's first full-length feature

with commentary by the director

available here for the first time on home video

Woodshock

an early short 16 mm film made by Linklater and Lee Daniel in 1985

The Roadmap

the working script of Slacker

including 14 deleted scenes and alternate takes

Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion in Austin

TX

in 2001

Original theatrical trailer

Slacker culture essay by Linklater

Information about the Austin Film Society

founded in 1985 by Linklater with Daniel

including early flyers from screenings

Plus

a 64-page booklet featuring essays by author and filmmaker John Pierson (Spike Mike Reloaded: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of Independent American Cinema) and Michael Barker

head of Sony Pictures Classics

as well as reviews

production notes

a complete cast and crew listing

and an introduction to It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop

The Shooting)