Directed by: Richard Linklater
Featuring: Richard Linklater
Year: 1991
Time: 100 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 247
Licensor
Detour Filmproduction
Release Date: Tuesday, 14 September 2004
MSRP: $39.95
DVD
2 Discs
1.33:1
English Dolby Surround 2.0
Subtitles: English
Region 1
Three audio commentaries, featuring Linklater and members of the cast and crew
It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Linklater’s first full-length feature, with commentary by the director
Woodshock, a 1985 16 mm short by Linklater and Daniel
Casting tapes featuring select “auditions” from the more-than-100-member cast
Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion
Early film treatment
Home movies
Ten-minute trailer for a 2005 documentary about the landmark Austin café Les Amis
Original theatrical trailer
“The Roadmap,” the working script for Slacker, including fourteen deleted scenes and alternate takes
Stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos
Slacker culture essay by Linklater
Information about the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 by Linklater with Daniel, including early flyers from screenings
Booklet