Waking Life
- Original title
- Waking Life
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 97 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Ethan Hawke
- Julie Delpy
- Wiley Wiggins
- Trevor Jack Brooks
- Timothy Speed Levitch
- Glover Gill
- Laura Hicks
- David Sosa
- Alex Jones
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Animation
- Producer
- Genre
- Animation. Drama | Independent Film (US). Cult Movie. Adult Animation
- Synopsis
- Transcending the boundaries of technology and imagination, WAKING LIFE is a revolutionary breakthrough in film animation. Originally shot and edited as live action, the footage was then graphically “painted” frame by frame via computer by a team of more than 30 artists. The feeling created is that of an impressionist painting breathing with life.
WAKING LIFE represents a unique union of the worlds of computer and film embodied in the talents of writer/director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise) and computer animation savant Bob Sabiston, the creator of the unique “interpolated rotoscoping” software that gave birth to WAKING LIFE.
In WAKING LIFE, Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused) travels through a series of encounters and observations in a world that may or may not be reality. It is this surreal existence, flourishing with endless ideas and possibilities, that ultimately leads to the question, “Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams?”- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2001: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Animated Film2001: Independent Spirit Awards: 3 Nominations including Best Film2001: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Picture2001: Venice Film Festival: nominated to Golden Lion - Best Picture.2001: Critics' Choice Awards: nominated to Best Animated Feature.2002: Ottawa International Animation Festival: Grand Prize: Best Film.
- Critics' reviews
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"The film is truly special, truly different -- a wondrous talky roundelay about and for people who love life."
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"An astounding, one-of-a-kind movie"
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"For the battered American independent cinema, Linklater's movie is the highest form of life seen in the last couple of years"
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"I have seen Waking Life three times now. I want to see it again -- not to master it, or even to remember it better, -- but simply to experience all of these ideas, all of this passion, the very act of trying to figure things out."
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"A smart cartoon about the life of the mind. It's about the fuzzy border between dreaming and living. "
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"Intriguing, arresting, delightfully refusing to be pigeonholed"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 41 My Top 10 Movies from 2001 (61)
- 95 The Weirdest Movies I Have Ever Watched (45)
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