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Dazed and Confused

September 2023

  • Jeremy Fox, Esteban Powell, Wiley Wiggins and Mark Vandermeulen in Dazed and Confused

    Dazed and Confused review – Richard Linklater’s joyously evocative hangout movie

    Rereleased for its 30th anniversary, this is a seemingly aimless but actually brilliantly controlled movie about Texan kids in 1976

June 2019

  • Dazed and Confused - 1993<br>Editorial use only. No book cover usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Universal/Gramercy/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5882402i) Rory Cochrane Dazed and Confused - 1993 Director: Richard Linklater Universal/Gramercy USA Film Portrait Comedy Géneration rebelle

    How we made
    Richard Linklater: how we made Dazed and Confused

    ‘When the studio head realised I was directing, he thought, “Oh no, it’s going to be one of those arty, jerk-offski movies.” I still have PTSD thinking about it’

January 2017

  • Matthew McConaughey

    Matthew McConaughey: ‘My agent said no to romcoms. And then there was nothing’

    The actor reveals how his risk-taking, high-rolling parents inspired his biggest gambles – and why they’ve paid off

May 2016

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    Everybody Wants Some!! review – jocks away

    The muscle-bound freshmen of Richard Linklater’s joyful 80s campus movie reveal occasional complexity

April 2016

  • Director Richard Linklater photographed at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Photo by Emily Berl

    Richard Linklater: ‘Someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’

    As his lodger is re-convicted for murder, the director talks about the Texan justice system, the art of storytelling – and why he’ll always be a slacker at heart

July 2015

  • Richard Linklater

    Richard Linklater to sign up for Jennifer Lawrence's The Rosie Project

    Boyhood director in the frame to take on romcom featuring Hunger Games star, after previous directors dropped out

December 2014

  • British Independent Film awards Pride

    Pride, ‘71 and Belle head prizes at British independent film awards

    Film about 1980s alliance of LGBT activists and miners enjoys success while Gugu Mbatha-Raw wins best actress for Belle

October 2014

  • Ben Affleck in David Fincher's Gone Girl

    Five best moments
    Ben Affleck: five best moments

    We look at five of the Gone Girl star’s most memorable performances to date. But which would you put on your own list?

September 2013

  • DAZED & CONFUSED

    Film blog
    Dazed and Confused: can you match the quote with the character?

    Quiz: To mark the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater's coming of age classic, test how well you remember it. Which character said each of these lines?

October 2010

  • DAZED & CONFUSED

    The 25 best comedy films of all time
    Dazed and Confused: No 19 best comedy film of all time

    Richard Linklater, 1993

December 2009

  • In the director's chair
    Richard Linklater on making Me and Orson Welles: 'He was the patron saint of indie film-makers'

    The director of Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise and School of Rock tells Jason Solomons what drew him to the story of new film Me and Orson Welles, why his movies keep returning to the themes of youth and the future, and how he would love to do a musical

May 2005

  • Dazed and confused

    Even hardened movie-going professionals have been stunned by the graphic violence in the only British film in competition. Xan Brooks asks its makers what they're up to.

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