REWIND: Dazed and Confused (1993)
Schedule
Fri Oct 04 2024 at 09:45 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Tampa Theatre | Tampa, FL
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1h 35m / R / ComedyTRAILER:
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REWIND SERIES SCREENING
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Dazed & Confused is a comedy without jokes, the same way that Wes Anderson movies are, but resulting from an exactly inverted process. No painterly compositions and exhausting precision here — just a loose, rambling hang-out sesh of a bunch of dead-average Texan high school kids standing on various sides of the threshold of adulthood. It’s funny only because thinking back on how we were when we were seventeen is funny, because being young is fun and we were idiots. It’s not a stoner movie, precisely, although getting high figures prominently in it. It’s not a coming-of-age movie, either; only two characters really make any choices, and one of them is almost certainly choosing wrong. It’s a little bit of a teen movie, but so many of those (Superbad, Booksmart) owe so much to it that it seems unfair to group them together. The main thing it is, is a Richard Linklater movie. Which is more of a tautology than a description. But Linklater’s particular eye for the subtle significance of everyday interactions, the resonant depth of interpersonal minutiae — that’s what keeps you feeling like every moment is infinitely meaningful. When was the last time you felt like that? Bet you the contents of your 401(k) that it was high school.
There are plenty of ways to tell that Dazed & Confused, set in the summer of 1976, was actually released in 1993. Like Googling it, that’s one way. Historically, the main way viewers figure it out is by seeing Parker Posey show up on screen and going “wait, how old is Parker Posey?” Feel free to substitute: Rory Cochrane, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Anthony Rapp, Cole Hauser, Adam Goldberg, Renée Zellweger or, famously, Matthew McConaughey. It’s a film about the strangeness of time and aging. And so it feels appropriate that REWIND offers you 1993’s Dazed and Confused, now touring the country in celebration of its 30th anniversary (delayed a year in some locations because of last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike) in this, its 31st year. We keep getting older and it irrefutably stays the same age.
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This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event; seat selection is not required.
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Where is it happening?
Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St,Tampa, Florida, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
