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- <text id=91TT1696>
- <title>
- July 29, 1991: View Points:Cinema
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIEW POINTS, Page 63
- CINEMA
- '90s Going on '60s
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- <p>By Richard Corliss
- </p>
- <p> Every summer needs an oddball movie, muttering happily to
- itself in a forgotten corner of the superplex while the mega
- budget pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a
- parade of all-American weirdos. Writer-director Richard
- Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde--one character
- talking to a second, the second to a third and so on--and
- populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin.
- These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent
- study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've
- been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy with financing
- from the Medellin cartel), or Elvis (he's living in Las Vegas,
- working as--what else?--an Elvis impersonator). The wildest
- theories are received with a blissed-out smile. "Sorry I'm
- late," somebody says; the reply is "That's O.K.--time doesn't
- exist." Yes, it does. Though set in the '90s, Slacker has a
- spirit that is pure '60s, and in this loping, loopy, sidewise,
- delightful comedy, Austin is Haight-Ashbury.
- </p>
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