Fast Food Nation - 35MM + Q&A

Pioneer Works and Roxy Cinema co-present a screening and conversation with Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser. The program celebrates the new 25th Anniversary Edition of Schlosser’s landmark 2001 book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, and the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation (2006)

When a fast food chain experiences a meat contamination event, a marketing exec takes a journey to the dark side of American alimentation.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase, followed by a signing with Schlosser.

First published in 2001, Fast Food Nation exposed the ways the fast-food industry reshaped American labor, agriculture, public health, landscapes, and daily life. Five years later, Schlosser joined Linklater in adapting the book into a fictionalized film that follows the human and industrial systems behind an all-American burger.

Twenty-five years after the book’s original publication, Schlosser and Linklater come together to consider what has changed, what has not, and how the forces the book identified continue to shape the way we eat and live.The 25th Anniversary Edition will be published on September 22, 2026.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase, followed by a signing with Schlosser.

Richard Linklater is a writer, director, and producer known for films including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, the Before trilogy, Waking Life, School of Rock, A Scanner Darkly, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!, Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, and Hit Man. He has received six Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. He also co-wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight. Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 and lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Eric Schlosser is an investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is the author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. His reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for his journalism, and his work has been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Schlosser has also worked in film as a producer and screenwriter, including on Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, and the Academy Award–nominated documentary Food, Inc.