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New this week: “Waking Life,” an adventurous yet problematic undertaking from Austin, Texas, filmmaker Richard Linklater (“Slacker,” “Dazed and Confused”), is an experiment in animation in which graphic artists “paint” via computer the images of live-action film. The resulting beautiful surreal effects are to express a young man’s quest to discover whether he’s awake or asleep, dead or alive. What’s problematic about the film is that the responses the young man (Wiley Wiggins) gets from those he meets are for the most part lengthy treatises on the human condition. All this talk distracts the viewer from the constant pleasure the film’s visual richness provides. Kevin Thomas
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Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. Behind Enemy Lines
2. Domestic Disturbance
3. Black Knight
4. Spy Game
5. Serendipity
Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. Behind Enemy Lines
2. Domestic Disturbance
3. Spy Game
4. Black Knight
5. Bandits
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Rental video charts provided by VSDAVidTrac.
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