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  1. 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.

  2. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Dan Kratochvil, Linda Finney. A nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane activities.

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  3. 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 ...

  4. It is uniquely structured, stably paced, and very thoughtful and innovative. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books is a different breed of plot less filmmaking. It offers no insights, no coherency, no drama, and no real message or purpose. It does however erect a soothing and primitive aspect from its Super 8, home video ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

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  8. Jun 12, 2024 · 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. The film was shot on Super 8 film over the course of a year.