Saturday, October 24, 2009
THIS IS WHERE I CAME IN
Today's Richard Linklater film was
This is the film that got me started on the Linklater Film Fest and the last film in the sequence.
This is done in 'motion capture" where the acting is real but transformed to drawing and additional animation. Wonderful for the topic. Dreams.
I realize now that this film has elements of many previous "serious" Linklater films. It has the same frequent train rides (You Can't Learn to Plow a Field From a Book, his first feature length film undistributed. He does all the movie's parts. Camera, acting, editing and so on).
It has the walking and talking that we saw in his first distributed feature Slackers.
It has the ideas of what is real and what is imagined/dreamed.
It has Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke who had just done Before Sunset. There is Speed Levitch the run-on tour guide from the 20 minute Live from Shiva's Dance Floor The lead is Wiley Wiggins from Dazed and Confused, the second distributed film.
Steven Soderbergh shows up. And so on.
It is fun to see these bits and pieces.
Ebert has written two pieces on the film. Here is the later one.
I have really enjoyed this series of films and look forward to seeing his latest, Me and Orson Welles, which comes out soon. I think that it is a mix of a film for himself and for "them".
Oh. Waking Life is already a 5 out of Netflix5. I will see it again, for sure.
