Waking Life

1st March 2016

In 2001 writer-director Richard Linklater released a spiritual sequel to his acclaimed early features Slacker and Before Sunrise. Taking its cue from their walk-and-talk stream of consciousness, Waking Life enquired into the relationship between dreams and the big screen, and how cinema captures the phantasy state. Arrow Video will be releasing Waking Life, their first Linklater movie, as a dual format Blu-ray and DVD, coming loaded with bonus content from 14^th March 2016.

Aiding Linklater’s exploration were two major players: actor Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused, Computer Chess), who acts as our guide through the dreamscape, and animator Bob Sabiston, who created the appropriately disassociated, floating rotoscoped visuals. He and Linklater would later collaborate again on A Scanner Darkly to equally stunning effect.

Featuring Adam Goldberg, Nicky Katt, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke (reprising their Jesse and Céline characters fromBefore Sunrise) and director Steven Soderbergh, Waking Life is an extraordinary thought-provoking trip, quite unlike anything before or since.

Special Features

High definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
Original 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
Optional subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Commentary by writer-director Richard Linklater, art director Bob Sabiston, actor Wiley Wiggins and producer Tommy Pallotta
Commentary by the 25-strong animation team
A selection of Bob Sabiston’s short films, including The Trees (1991), God’s Little Monkey (1994), Project Incognito (1997), Color Test (1998), Snack and Drink (1999), Figures of Speech (1999), Ryan’s Capitol Tour (1999), Grasshopper (2003) and The Even More Fun Trip (2007)
Original ‘making of’ featurette including interviews with Linklater, Sabiston and Pallotta
Animation tutorial with Sabiston
Deleted and alternative animation sequences
Pre-animation live action footage captured on Mini DV
Trivia subtitle track written by Linklater
Theatrical trailer
The first pressing also includes a booklet containing new writing on the film by critic David Jenkins and a guide to Bob Sabiston’s short filmsby Anthony Nield

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