Waking Life Movie Review 2001

Linklater's innovative and visually groundbreaking look at dreams, life, and philosophy doesn't really seem to have a plot. What it does have is several vignettes of people mostly just talking about the above subjects. What makes it stunning is the look of the project. Linklater "filmed" the scenes on digital video, then had a group of artists digitally "paint" over the footage, assigning different artists different scenes or actors so as to have a variety of styles. The result is a trippy experiment that might not appeal to many people except philosophy majors, computer geeks, or chemically altered college students. Film buffs looking for something new would do well to check it out.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Animation & Cartoons, Hallucinations/Illusions, Killer Dreams, Big Ideas, Director/Star Teams: Linklater & Hawke

Screenplay

Richard Linklater

Cast

Richard Linklater, Glover Gill, Julie Delpy, Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Steven Soderbergh

Cinematography

Richard Linklater, Tommy Pallotta

Director

Richard Linklater

Music

Glover Gill

Other

Ethan Andrus, Sandra Adair, Bob Sabiston

Producer

Anne Walker-McBay, Tommy Pallotta, Palmer West, Jonah Smith, Detour Filmproduction, Independent Film Channel (IFC), Line Research, Thousand Words, Fox Searchlight

Awards

N.Y. Film Critics 2001: Animated Film.