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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: 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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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 ...
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 ...
as pretentious as i would like to be, ‘it’s impossible to learn to plow by reading books’ is quite unlikeable, its beautiful that even with no budget and a love for filmmaking linklater made this and at moments it really is beautiful but for its mundane meditative feel it aims for, it doesn’t reach it, not at all, it’s a hard thing to nail and really only done perfectly in ‘Jean ...
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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.
