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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)
2 - Disc Set
[Criterion Collection]
[2 Discs]
Audio: DD2