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 ...

Before he made his breakout film Dazed and Confused in 1993, Richard Linklater’s first full-length feature film was 1990’s Slacker, an indie comedy that took place in Austin, Texas, and featured an ...

There was a time when the most endearing men on film smoked pot for breakfast, rarely saw fit to leave the couch, and espoused homegrown ideologies that linked The Smurfs with Krishna. They were ...

"Slacker" director Richard Linklater did not consider the term synonymous with lazy. It alludes to a lifestyle that grew in the 1970s, when the University of Texas cost $200 a semester and Austin's ...

If you lived in Austin circa 1990 and were immersed in the city’s creative communities, fair chance that your total is equal to or greater than the count of about 20 I recently tallied when looking ...