Dazed and Confused is on its way!
By way of Wiley Wiggins’s News of the Dead, the Criterion edition of Dazed and Confused appears to be on track, for real, and the shit! It really is happening. If I’m lucky, Amazon will combine this with the Slacker Criterion edition• and I can pick them both up at the same time for a discount.
In the Dazed and Confused book, Richard Linklater ends the first part of his introduction with:
Let’s face it, no matter where you live at no matter what time, High School is a light prison sentence to be served. Once paroled, you don’t look back.
- July 8, 2006: Cell phone neo-McCarthyism
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The newspaper article doesn’t give nearly enough information to say if this is an attack on cell phones or just another inane school action in the war on drugs, but it is funny for Dazed & Confused fans.
“People shouldn’t get power based on suspicions, people should be considered innocent until proven guilty,” said senior Adam Goldberg. “It feels like our rights are stripped away when we walk through the doors.”
Adam Goldberg is also the name of the actor in Dazed and Confused who plays Mike Newhouse. In response to similar strong-arm tactics by the football coach, he says:
See I just didn’t know that drugs and alcohol were such a big problem that they had to resort to neo-McCarthyism.
Better watch out kids, next it’ll be urine tests.
Incidentally, I’ve got the Dazed and Confused Criterion edition• and it is awesome. If you’re a fan of the movie, I strongly recommend it.
- Dazed and Confused Criterion edition•: Richard Linklater
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This movie is an incredible tale of sound and fury signifying high school. Linklater has crafted a beautiful story of a bunch of high schools students in Texas on the last day of school in 1976. There is no plot to get in the way of characterization. The soundtrack consists of seventies songs chosen specifically scene by scene for maximum impact. If you were ever in high school, you should see this movie for nostalgia reasons; if not, you should see it as an education. Slow ride, baby. Watch it in English or French, or with English or Spanish subtitles. Dazed and Confused is one hell of a movie; despite being set a thousand or so miles away it nearly perfectly fits my mid-seventies high school experience.
- Slacker Criterion Edition•
- “Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another’s lives.”
- The Criterion Collection: Dazed and Confused
- “Last I heard the release date is in June. Cool first look at the box art, though. It’s such a relief to escape Universal’s branding and advertising ‘art’ after all these years!”
- Dazed and Confused: A Celebration of the Hit Movie•
- “Teenage Nostalgia. Instant and Cool 70’s Memorabilia. A Celebration of the Hit Movie.” On the first page, Linklater starts reminiscing about ZZ Top’s Fandango in a 1976 Texas suburb. This looks very cool.
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