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On edge: artists drawing over live-action footage create a restive animation.(A Scanner Darkly)
It's difficult to imagine a more finely drawn picture of the woozy world of drug addiction and paranoid hallucinations than the moving illustrations in Warner Independent Films' A Scanner Darkly, based on a Philip K. Dick novel. The distorted backgrounds and twitchy characters in the rotoscoped animation reflect the characters' blurred mental states and relationships.
Take the film's lead character, for example, played by actor Keanu Reeves. He's an undercover narc (Officer Fred) whose covert identity, Bob Arctor, becomes the subject of his own sting. When he's Officer Fred, he wears a "scramble suit" that turns his image, as seen by others, into a constantly ...
- Ryder, Downey join `A Scanner Darkly'.
- Newspaper article from: Zap2It.com May 4, 2004 700+ words
...Dazed and Confused," "Waking Life" and the Jack Black comedy...Sunset," this July. "A Scanner Darkly" is tentatively slated for a 2005 release. Like "Waking Life," "A Scanner Darkly" will blend real-life with...
- A Scanner Darkly.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Rowin, Michael Joshua September 22, 2006 700+ words
...writer Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly, I alerted my friend Mark, a...philosophical millennium mambo Waking Life. Enamored of Linklater's leisurely...visual experience: How could A Scanner Darkly miss? It turns out Mark was half...
- Linklater's A Scanner Darkly Finds Slackers of the Future.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 31, 2006 700+ words
...Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, from his own...Linklater employed in Waking Life (2001). It...another level, A Scanner Darkly unites the world...unfettered dialogue in Waking Life caused "metaphysical...this includes A Scanner Darkly) make it all...
- Review: 'A Scanner Darkly'.
- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) July 7, 2006 700+ words
...years from now, "Scanner Darkly" feels uncomfortably...philosophical bull session, "Waking Life" where animation is...had also repeated "Waking Life's" use of different...Still, the risks "Scanner Darkly" takes both with its...
- They Are Watching. They Are Recording. Now They Are on Cell Phones. -- 'A...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 13, 2006 700+ words
...a stand-alone "A Scanner Darkly" entertainment channel...anything about 'A Scanner Darkly' and Philip K. Dick...Releasing this summer, "A Scanner Darkly" was written for the...Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved to...
- A Scanner Darkly & Dog Day Afternoon Debut on HD DVD & Blu-ray Disc April 10.
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 21, 2007 700+ words
...simultaneously debut A Scanner Darkly and Dog Day Afternoon...for $28.99 SRP. A Scanner Darkly "A visually riveting...Rolling Stone), A Scanner Darkly will be all the more...used on his film "Waking Life." Dog Day Afternoon...
- Keanu Reeves stars in 'The Lake House,' 'A Scanner Darkly'.(Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin June 5, 2006 700+ words
...Richard Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban...come to life, "A Scanner Darkly" uses live action...Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved to...be followed by "A Scanner Darkly" on September.
- Dick heads: Gary Indiana on Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly.(Richard...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Indiana, Gary June 22, 2006 700+ words
...of Guy Debord. Linklater's first "animated feature," Waking Life (2001), can be an optical ordeal for viewers allergic to...grace by fluidly gripping language. The spectacular aspect of Waking Life is its deceptively stingy afflatus of visual information...
