dazed and confused

Dazed and Confused is a 1993 comedy / coming of age film written and directed by Richard Linklater detailing a final day of school in 1976. Dazed and Confused is a 1993 comedy / coming of age film written and directed by Richard Linklater detailing a final day of school in 1976.

In the September issue of Dazed & Confused, we dedicated 24 pages to the dying photo format.

Shawn Brackbill is a photographer who loves music. It flawlessly captures the spirit of the ’70s while arguing for a clear universality in the high school experience.

Synopsis: Richard Linklater’s DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development.

Hysterically Funny and ultimately enriching, “Dazed and Confused” takes some pretty genuine themes - rebelling, the thought of growing up too fast, and life after school - and spices it with a nice blend of wired humour.

Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack will co-star in.

Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure.

The 11-year gulf between American Graffiti’s 1962 and the year of its release, 1973, seems far greater than the one between the 1976 of Dazed and Confused and 1993.

By Jim Emerson Jim Emerson Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused sets out to be a kind of American Graffiti for early-’90s slackers.

The similarly relaxed narrative drift of Dazed and Confused is pretty much determined by its limited time frame: 18 hours overlapping the last day of school and the morning after .

Dazed and Confused doesn’t just re-create the mid-’70s, it actually looks like it could have been shot then. The movie’s tiny budget may have had something to do with its graininess and flat colors, but, heck, that’s exactly the way all those low-budget teen movies looked.

As the Dazed and Confused press kit notes, in the year of America’s Bicentennial, “Sex is still safe; drugs aren’t dangerous yet, and booze hasn’t gotten MADD.”

Well, at least our attitudes about sex, drugs and booze were different then - for better or worse. To its credit, Dazed and Confused doesn’t make any tsk-tsk value judgements or push the ironies of hindsight down our throats.

Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen.

Dazed and Confused is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Dazed Digital | Dazed & Confused Magazine | Fashion, Art, Fashion, Music, Film, Ideas The Criterion Collection: Dazed and Confused by Richard Linklater