| Waking Life Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: A+) |
| WAKING LIFE (director/writer/cinematographer: Richard Linklater;
cinematographer: Tommy Pallotta; editor: Sandra Adair; music: Glover Gill,
performed by Tosca Tango Orchestra; cast: Wiley Wiggins (Main Character), Julie
Delpy (Celine ), Adam Goldberg...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Edward Johnson-Ott |
| Waking Life (2001)
Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Steven Soderbergh, Speed
Levitch. Music by Grover Gill. Written and directed by Richard
Linklater. 97 minutes.
Rated R, 3.5 stars (out of five stars) more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| "Waking Life" falls into the mind-tickling tradition of talk movies. Think
"Mindwalk", think "My Dinner With Andre". But writer/director Richard Linklater
("Dazed and Confused") sets his apart by wrapping it in animation that is not
like any you...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 4/10) |
| PLOT:
A guy walking around, trying to figure out if he's dreaming or not, and if so,
how to get out of it. In the meantime, he stumbles across many arm-chair
philosophers, who decide to bore him, oops...I mean, relate to him, their own
pontifications on...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| WAKING LIFE is a series of disconnected, abstract and frequently obtuse
philosophical discourses packaged in an extremely creative cartoon wrapper.
Live action was turned into computer-animated images. The results were then
scrambled so that scenes...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Karina Montgomery |
| Right off the bat, I can't say that I enjoyed being in the theatre for this
film. If it was not for the animated aspect of it, I don't know why anyone
would go see this except if they were intrigued by the admittedly
interesting idea of this...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: B) |
| After his daughter Lorelei declares 'Dream is destiny,' writer/director
Richard Linklater propels Wiley Wiggins ("Dazed and Confused") from
the odd boat/car which picked him up into a world where dream is reality
in "Waking Life." more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Robin Clifford |
| "Dream is destiny," says the fortune telling kids' game at the start of
"Waking Life," the latest effort by filmmaker Richard Linklater, who is
joined by animation art director Bob Sabiston. And dreams are the focus of
this stream of consciousness work...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Max Messier (Rating: 5/5) |
| Today, most films are bloated, uninteresting, narrative-driven drivel,
filled with beautiful people, a hit soundtrack, and closely following
the storyline of some bestseller close enough so that it doesn't offend
a legion of Oprah's Book Club readers....more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 7/10) |
| CAPSULE: The first digital video animated film is an account
of a man going through his dreams listening to people talk
about dreams, dream states, and the nature of time and
reality. Some of the speakers are philosophical, some...more |
| Waking Life Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| If you're at the theatre and the movie you're watching feels like a
nightmare, you've probably wandered into Serendipity. But if the images on
the screen make you feel as though you're floating through someone else's
loopy dream, you must be watching...more |
