Dazed and Confused

Matthew McConaughey Reprises DAZED AND CONFUSED Role in New Butch Walker Video

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: January 20th, 2012 at 1:33 pm

Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused is one of my favorite movies, and within the film is quite possibly Matthew McConaughey’s best performance. It’s a legendary role, infused with just the right amount of McConaughey’s southern charm to walk the line between endearing and pedophilic (and that’s a very fine line). The actor recently reprised the role in a music video for Butch Walker and the Black Widows and I’ll be damned if he looks almost exactly the same as he did in the 1993 flick. Hit the jump to check out the video. Fair warning: McConaughey may or may not play the trumpet.

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and DAZED AND CONFUSED Blu-ray Reviews

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: September 24th, 2011 at 6:37 am

Universal has been releasing Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused together for a while now. I guess it makes sense. They’re both “party” films in that it’s hard to imagine Fast Times having the impact it did without Sean Penn’s Jeff Spicoli character, and Dazed and Confused second half is virtually one long party. Universal has embraced that, often selling both with pot jokes. Fast Times follows a group of teens (including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Penn, Judge Reinhold and more) as they look for love and deal with sex in high school, while Confused follows a set of juniors (including Jason London, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey and Adam Goldberg) as they are about to become seniors and become rulers of the school. Our reviews of both Fast Times and Dazed and Confused on Blu-ray follow after the jump.

Exclusive: Richard Linklater on THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, His Spiritual Sequel to DAZED AND CONFUSED

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

One of my favorite movies is director Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.  While many filmmakers try and make moments feel real, Dazed and Confused is like watching a documentary.  Everything feels like it’s really happening and nothing feels forced.  I think it’s one of the most accurate portrayals of high school ever made and I cannot recommend the film enough.

While Dazed didn’t exactly do well when it got released, it’s one of those films that’s consistently played on cable and always sold well on DVD.  It’s the kind of film any studio would want to have in its library.  So when Richard Linklater announced he was going to make That’s What I’m Talking About, a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 film and it would take place on a college campus in the 80′s, I thought there would be a bidding war among studios wanting to build off the massive cult success of the original.  But there wasn’t, and a film that many of us were dying to see never got off the ground.

So earlier today when I sat down with Linklater to talk about his new film Me and Orson Welles, we discussed what happened to That’s What I’m Talking About and he told me a lot more about the film and what really happened.  The good news: it’s still a project he really wants to do and he has a plan to make it happen!  Watch what he had to say after the jump.  And Universal, if you’re reading this, make this film with Linklater and then you can package Dazed with this one!

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