With rotoscoping, anything can made animated, even Keanu Reeves. It is this tracing animation that director Richard Linklater has again turned to — just as he did for his dreamy 2001 film “Waking Life ...

In the sci-fi thriller "A Scanner Darkly," the main character, played by Keanu Reeves, appears as a hazy, shape-shifting mass of ever-changing skin tones and features. A reluctant undercover drug ...

A Scanner Darkly: Animated drama. Starring Keanu Reeves, Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder. Directed by Richard Linklater. (R. 100 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Moviemakers over the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Another Philip K. Dick story has been adapted for the screen, and this time it’s by one of ...

Writer Philip K. Dick has given the entertainment industry plenty of novels and short stories to mine. A Scanner Darkly, the latest adaptation, finds director Richard Linklater applying rotoscoping -- ...

Richard Linklater may be one of the most talented filmmakers today, as anyone who could make Dazed and Confused and School of Rock while also making incredibly innovative, if not a bit bizarre, flicks ...

Linklater, you’ve landed lookers such as Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr. in your science fiction fantasy. What are you going to do now? Paint over their pretty faces to make digital ...

?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 ...