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I saw Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused at Central Cinema the other night (and ate some delicious lasagna while I was at it). The movie features fabulous 1970s music and fashion, and it was very funny.

You have tonight and tomorrow at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. to check it out.

28 replies on “Dazed and Confused”

  4. I used to own this film on VHS, and I watched it like 100 times, because it rules. It would be even better with lasagna and drinks on a big screen.

  6. That GTO Judge in the beginning is my dream car, although Melba Toast is pretty awesome as well.

    “Let me tell you what Melba Toast is packin’ right here, all right. We got 4:11 Positrac outback, 750 double pumper, Edelbrock intake, bored over 30, 11 to 1 pop-up pistons, turbo-jet 390 horsepower. We’re talkin’ some fuckin’ muscle. “

  8. Or you could rent this at Scarecrow video, which is how they’re projecting it, on VIDEO! This notion of “Big Screen” entertainment that is actually screening on the same video formats that if you had your own video projector, you’d see on the “big scree” which could just as easily be the wall in your house or apartment.

  11. This is perhaps the only movie Matthew MccCnaughey has been in that was good, likely for the same reason that Courney Love does a decent job of playing a heroin addict.

  13. #8 is harsh but true. I live down the street from CC and love that its there and occasionally hit em up for a beer and a special event, but my high rent, student loans, and lower income (under 55000) don’t permit me to see this movie digitally projected for $8. I mean, I paid $3 to see it on matinee when it came out, projected from glorious 35 mm film…I can get it from the library, toss it on my new Christmas 29″ stereo flatscreen invite some buds over, drink a bunch of beer and liquor… and my wife loves to make her lasagne anytime without asking, so hey guess what i’m having a party!

  15. This movie is my life. I went to a Texas high school during that time period. Me and my people aren’t in it, because we were the sniggering nose-picking nerds hanging out at the far end of the parking lot from the cool kids in the movie, but I knew (and hated) all of those people.

  16. As #13 point out, its more about charging the same as if it were projected on 35mm. If they charged say $4 I’d forgive them.

  20. I saw this in the Dobie Cinema, in 1994, in Austin, in Texas. This was the film that made me detest Dick Linklater ever since. Prior to, I had no opinion of him. Years later, my stoner ex convinced me to give Linklater a second chance with Waking Hours. It also disappointed me beyond the rotoscoping gimmickry.

    D&C was the only instance ever when I left a cinema, went up to a manager and asked for either a refund or pass. The only thing I got out of D&C was the use of Seals & Crofts and the “Moon towers” (which are perhaps the coolest, bestest thing Austin has that no other place does). The rest of it felt like a massive waste.

    That film didn’t need to buy a vowel. It needed to buy a plot.

  22. Why is the picture-pub-pizza concept so difficult for people to embrace? See a movie on the big screen, have food and drinks brought to your table, let someone else clean up–not that terrible of a way to spend a couple hours, and not that expensive either. If you want a better projection system and first-run movies go to Cine Barre.

  24. @20 Wow. You didn’t get it at all, did ya? Teenage life really doesn’t have a plot, despite all of our efforts to infuse it with meaning. Growing up isn’t a straight line. I suppose you never saw American Graffiti, or thought it was a massive waste too.

    I can tell those that enjoyed the film that the “Let’s smoke a bowl everytime in the movie tokes up!” game can get pretty rough with D&C. You’ll be pausing it to catch up.

  25. @ 20 said “his was the film that made me detest Dick Linklater ever since. Prior to, I had no opinion of him.”

    Prior to, he had made only one other movie.

  26. Well, yeah, the plotline isn’t exactly War and Peace, but as someone who graduated one year later than the movie is set, I can tell you it is a pretty accurate picture of what it was like to be a high-schooler in the late ’70s in the U.S. And I love Matthew McConaughey – was anyone ever more creepily, proudly, scuzzy?

  27. Mr. Friendly, its the conversation about big screen that I take most issue with. A big screen experience isn’t popping some DVD into a player and hitting play. That sir is something you can do at home on a wall or out a window. Does it qualify as big screen? I don’t think so. Big screen experience is a beautifully crisp 35mm projection in a sloped house, with great sound and site lines, where collectively we experience a film as it was meant to be seen. Since this particular film was shot on 35mm film I think experiencing it on the “big screen” would very much involve seeing it on 35mm. I’m not opposed to the cinema pizza experience at all. Its just that central cinema is a place that offers only video projection, often for films that are meant to be seen on 35mm. When that happens and someone refers to teh screening as a “big screen” experience they’re just kidding themselves.

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