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It's Impossible To Learn to Plow by Reading Books. Shot on Super 8 for $3,000, Richard Linklater’s first feature follows the wanderings of a young man (played by Linklater himself) as he journeys the country by bus and train, encountering friends and strangers along the way in a series of quotidian encounters that signal the filmmaker’s ...
Dec 7, 2021 · It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. Near the beginning of Before Sunrise, Jesse describes an idea for a TV show: a year long project featuring 365 people recording every detail of their lives for 24 hours, “capturing life as it's lived.”. While Linklater has yet to realise such an idea, his little-known feature debut offers ...
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Jun 3, 2024 · Made on a shoestring budget, but full of memorable images that will be charred into my brain. A young Linklater figuring out how to use a camera—his alive style condensed into just 85 minutes, and his precision visible even at that age. A film in which every mundane activity feels the same, a painting of disconnection. Travelling somewhere that way will lead nowhere. It's easy to see why ...
Rated 4/5 Stars • 01/22/23. Richard Linklater's first feature (included as a supplement to the Criterion release of "Slacker") follows a young man travelling on a train, visiting his parents and ...
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Running time. 86 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $3,000. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books is a 1988 American road film written, produced, and directed by Richard Linklater, who also stars in it.
Sep 13, 2004 · The seeds for these films were sown in It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. Monte Hellman, a protégé of legendary producer/director Roger Corman, is best known for a pair of Jack Nicholson Westerns, as well as the cult film favorites Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, and China 9 Liberty 37. He has also worked as a theater ...
It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books is the debut feature from Austin-based auteur Richard Linklater. Conceived, shot, directed, and edited by Linklater using the barest of resources, the film is a model of self-reliant regional filmmaking. Plow was filmed using a Super-8 film camera and then edited at a public access television ...
