Richard Linklater’s film belongs in the canon of great Texas cinema. Of course, even more than cheap rents or greasy diners, people just miss being young. Slacker’s cast captured an entire generation ...

Whenever people ask Richard Linklater what’s special about his adopted hometown of Austin, Texas, he points out the city’s odd triptych of industrial-era landmarks: the State Capitol building, the ...

“It’s like the high school reunion where you actually want to see everybody.” Oscar-nominated Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater had a big smile on Tuesday evening at the Paramount Theatre. More than ...

During the summer of 1989, Richard Linklater and a merry band of Austin filmmakers shot the movie that was eventually to become known as Slacker, a film that has over the years earned a reputation as ...

Twenty years ago, filmmaker Richard Linklater guided moviegoers on an ambling tour of the bohemian counterculture of a relatively sleepy Austin. Narrated by a parade of conspiracy theorists, romantics ...

It was the day after Thanksgiving in 1986. Clark Walker was hunting in his grandparents' tree stand on their ranch near Foreman, Arkansas, where he was just waiting for a buck to walk by. Walker was ...

Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker as a “pusher” trying to sell an unusual Madonna souvenir, died ...

“Slacker”Most of us have wandered around aimlessly at some point in our lives, making chit chat here and there, having the random odd experience, encountering a strange person or two, all the while ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

In his “making of” book (St. Martin’s Press, 1992), the following passage, Linklater’s own, appears: “I guess it all started for me when I wandered into a Dead Kennedys show in the summer of 1984. …As ...