Dazed and Confused (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]

Love this movie, +good bonus features!

Richard Linklater's first picture, SLACKER, made on a shoestring, earned him a lot of attention, and he somehow managed to persuade Universal Pictures to spend $6 million on his sophomore effort, DAZED & CONFUSED, which follows a group of two dozen suburban Texas kids on the last day of high school in 1976. The studio that financed AMERICAN GRAFFITI several years before may have been hoping that lightning would strike again, and indeed there are intriguing similarities between the two movies. Both of them are ensemble pieces introducing a slew of talented young actors; both observe the cruising and dating rituals of a diverse gang of kids on a single afternoon and night; both feature wall-to-wall scores of golden oldies. But the differences between the two movies are striking as well. AMERICAN GRAFFITI, set in 1962, was a chronicle of the last days of innocence. In DAZED & CONFUSED, innocence is already long gone. These kids, some of them as young as 14 or 15, booze it up, smoke dope, search for sex, and speak in a rush of profanities that might make the characters in a Scorsese movie blush, Unlike the idealistic kids in GRAFFITI, these teenage slackers are aimless and nihilistic. The film is more honest than George Lucas's reminiscence in acknowledging the tensions among the different cliques of high school kids, and it's psychologically perceptive about their conflicting impulses toward conformity and defiance. Linklater's alter ego, the incoming freshman Mitch (Wiley Wiggins), is flattered by the attention he gets from the older jocks even while he despises their infantile high jinks. The performances are persuasive down to the smallest part, and Linklater has a fine ear for the unexpectedly loopy turns of phrase that make these teenagers come to life. He renders all of them -- the drugged out space cadet, the vascillating quarterback, the goons who take an almost psychotic relish in paddling freshman, the nerdy intellectual and the budding feminist -- with wit and affection. To anyone from the AMERICAN GRAFFITI generation, the teenagers in DAZED & CONFUSED may seem as alien as a band of Martians, but Linklater's passionate concern for the clan he's conjured should keep everyone mesmerized.

Great condition as advertised.

Life in one day in Austin, Texas at the end of the school year. There could be more extras in this package, one would say. say. Being a Criterion Collection, it has a perfect picture and a wonderful booklet included. There are the usual special features that one would expect from a Criterion edition. The commentary is quite hilarious, being so recent.

Love this movie....but I don't remember hearing much about it the year that it came out, 1993. It apparently has gained more popularity SINCE it's release. If you grew up in the '70's, as I did, there'll be alot there to bring back memories for you. The director commentary was a bit disappointing for me, as it seemed like the director was reminising more about his own memories from highschool rather than the memories he had of casting/making the film itself. I think that I recognized Renee Zellweger in a scene: at the beer bust at the moontower, she's the girl in the striped shirt sitting in the back of a pickup truck helping the Parker Posey character dring beer from a funnel. Oh, and another Zellweger sighting in the movie takes place shortly before the Wooderson (McConeghy) line, 'that's what I like about these highschool girls....I get older, they stay exactly the same.' It's pretty cool to see actors like Matthew McConeghy and Ben Affleck before they became famous......and even actors like Parker Posey, Milla Jojovich, Rory Cochrane, and Adam Goldberg who have since gained fame in more of a character actor genre. Before there was MTV, video games, cell phones.....pretty much all high school age kids had to do during summer in the '70's was ride around in cars and see what was going on. And the whole plot of this movie takes place the last day of school before summer break. And the rising freshmen boys were running scared from the senior boys who were only interested in their hazing ritual.....paddling them with thick, wooden paddles. And the rising freshmen girls didn't escape, either, they were treated like babies, complete with pacifiers, covered with food, and forced to "propose" to senior boys. It's fun to follow the Mitch and Sabrina characters, each fresh from their hazing rituals, being allowed to follow along with the older kids during the day's/night's events. It's alot of retro fun.....

Love this. If you are a big fan of the movie this is the ultimate way to own it.

Extra content is a bonus for me. Amazing quality, runs smoothly in 4k I’d say it still holds up to today’s standards.

I moved to Austin, Texas in June 1976. This movie is supposedly set in Austin during that time, but I think it fits more into West Texas. I don't think the hazing and the guns portrayed here were characteristic of Austin, which was a sleepy little college and state government town in 1976. But the film is a period piece, which is a favorite genre for me and one has the chance to see if the producer/director gets things right, whether it's clothes, hairstyles, cars, etc. or whatever. Here they get most of that right. The "muscle cars" again suggest West Texas more than Austin; so does the football and the hazing. "Slacker" is explicitly set in Austin, and I recognize scenes from thirty years ago in that movie. But I need to check on this, because the "moonlight towers" scene here suggests that the movie is set in Austin. (Alas, I think those are gone now, as are some other landmarks.) One of the most interesting things about this film is that actors like Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey are big stars now, but Wiley Wiggins steals every scene here, and BA and MM are cardboard characters. And the director failed to elicit some kind of ambiguity about the Affleck character. Why does he want to go around spanking these young boys? Was this kind of hazing really a tradition at the school or what? Then again, the '70s were pretty free for kids compared to what we see today. I think Wiggins in this movie is easily the best actor. And he is the central character. He doesn't have Jason London's classic good looks, but he has those "geeky" good looks that remind one of high school reunions where people see a classmate in a new light and wonder how anyone could have overlooked guys or girls who were maybe not that "popular" but who were really cool at the time and not that many people noticed. And like those kids, "Mitch", the Wiggins character here, is trying to figure out how he fits in or if he does, so the film reminds you maybe of yourself or of kids you knew who struggled. You know the type. Maybe you were the type. So in a way, this movie is kind of like "Ridgmont High" meets "The Wonder Years". Let's hope to see more of Wiggins; he's apparently still active in Austin, which is a great city but not as cool in some ways as it was thirty years ago. And thanks to stuff like cell phones, kids don't have the kind of adventures and fun they did back then, in Austin or anywhere.

Muito bem embalado e chegou super rápido!

La edición es increíble

Well happy with this set. Great film.

Excellent Service. Very Quick. The product itself is amazing. Well worth it.

awesome movie. i don't remember senior year being like this in the 90s. good times. looks amazing in 4K, also the packaging is rad!