The shop received a trio of packages today, bringing in BFI’s Werner Herzog box set and Carlos Saura’s “Cria Cuervos,” Arrow’s Blu-rays of Woody Allen’s “Bananas” and “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask” as well as Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life,” plus Australian discs of Tom Savini’s “Night of the Living Dead” and Hammer’s “The Nanny,” starring Bette Davis.
“Waking Life” is the first of two films (the other being an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “A Scanner Darkly”) directed by Richard Linklater that involved shooting digitally and then animating over the footage using a technique called interpolated rotoscoping. For those familiar with Linklater’s love of characters walking about and waxing philosophical, “Waking Life” uses the sort of scenes found in “Slacker” or the Before trilogy as a jumping off point and takes them in a dizzying variety of fantastical directions.