A Scanner Darkly is the near-future Philip K. Dick film that always feels set in the present

The tension in Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi is that it is not very interested in the “science” part of the fiction. While his work ...
Film Stories on MSN

A Scanner Darkly | The exclusive story of Richard Linklater’s animated cult classic – only in Film Stories magazine

Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly. How it nearly fell apart. The incredible behind the scenes story, told for the first time in Film Stories magazine. History is filled with filmmakers who’ve made ...
collider

Forget ‘The Matrix,’ This Is Keanu Reeves’ Trippiest Movie

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
Santa Maria Times

Animation through >A Scanner Darkly?

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present a screening of the highly stylized animation film BA Scanner DarklyC at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in UCSB Campbell Hall.
The Washington Post

'A Scanner Darkly': Finely Controlled Substance

Without its animation, "A Scanner Darkly" would have made a fine cautionary tale about drug addiction, paranoia and institutional treachery in a foundering police state. But with a technique that ...
Collegiate Times

?A Scanner Darkly? reveals an all too familiar substance-filled world

?A Scanner Darkly? is a film that is groundbreaking not only in its supremely original animation style, but also in its political and social commentary. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel written in 1977 ...