Richard Linklater - Slacker and Dazed and Confused

Linklater Coming to HBO for '$5.15' LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Looking to fill the comedy void left by the demise of "Arli$$" and "The Mind of the Married Man," HBO is close to signing sometime-maverick filmmaker Richard Linklater to a deal to develop a "$5.15/Hr." a half-hour comedy. Linklater is teaming up with writer-producer Rodney Rothman ("Undeclared") on the single-camera show. "$5.15/Hr." would represent HBO's first comedy pilot order in more than two years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As the title, the current federal minimum wage, would suggest, the show would focus on people in the lowest income bracket. A Texas-based filmmaker, Linklater was one of the more important faces in the early 1990s renaissance in American independent cinema. "Slacker," made for less than $23,000, was a hit and a calling card, opening the door to projects like "Dazed and Confused" and "Before Sunrise." Linklater's more recent efforts have included the award-winning "Waking Life." He's currently at work on "School of Rock," starring Jack Black. Source: http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?31256

"Before Sunrise" is one of my all-time favorite movies.

ditto

(dazed, confused, or both?) really cool note- david jewell, the guy who actually wrote The Poem from 'before sunrise', was here at the hideout tonight... he and paula jane and a few others are starting a new performance group...

How many folks showed up? What's coming up next?

Oh, it's so hip and edgy there!

A Slacker Darkly: Writer-director Richard Linklater June 29, 2006 By Lauren Horwitch In a paranoid world populated by attacking aphids and double agents in shape-shifting suits, a group of druggies strung out on a substance known only as "D" argue about whether a bike just purchased on the street is an 18- or nine-speed, then bicker over the best way to fix a busted carburetor and wonder if the cops will eventually break into their run-down Orange County house "through the back door or the bathroom window like that infamous Beatles song." Writer-director Richard Linklater says he knew the familiar interplay between such slacking characters was the reason he could adapt sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's surreal 1977 novel, A Scanner Darkly, into film. "It felt like a Philip K. Dick story I could tell," he says. "It's more of a character piece." He often thought about Dick's books while making his 2001 feature Waking Life, during which he first experimented animating using a digital process known as "rotoscoping." Animation, he realized, was the only way to bring the hallucinatory, herky-jerky world of Scanner to life. from http://backstage.com an excerpt. The rest at http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002764568

good interview with linklater at salon a few days ago, commemorating slacker