"Dazed and Confused" is a great choice. Kudos to all of you who picked it. The interplay between the old, violent traditions and the new sensibilities are quintessentially Texan. The fact that the cultural demands of high school football and sports in general percolate through the story is another bonus. By the way, if you're a big fan of "Waking Life," you can now buy artwork from the movie at: http://www.wakinglifeart.com/
I highly recommend "Lone Star." A tale of murder, racial tension, and family conflict on the border. Directed by John Sayles, with Matt McGonaughey, Kris Kristofferson, and Elizabeth Pena. One of the few movies to get Texas accents right. You won't regret renting this one.
Dammit, where's my brain today??? I'd have to put Lone Star second, right behind Dazed, and just barely ahead of Rushmore.
Strangely, I didn't see Lone Star for the first time until about a month ago... I'm going to have to re-order mine too; EXACTLY like RM95... Well....maybe not exactly.....I'll put it squarely in the middle....not to take anything away from Rushmore; I loved it! I just really liked the other two better.
Joel and Ethan Coen's debut. the opening monologue : "The world is full of complainers. the fact is nothing comes with a guarantee. Now I don't care if you're the Pope of Rome, President of the United States, or Man of the Year, something can all go wrong. Go Ahead, you know, complain. Tell your problems to your neighbor, ask for help, watch him fly. Now in Russia they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else. What I know about is Texas. Down here you're on your own." filmed in and around Austin. great scaene on Mount Bonnell. Holden, I wrote a review of Waking Life here, it was brand new then
i expected at least one person to mention Office Space... Dazed and Rushmore also rock. damn gr8, you just beat me...
Anybody seen Love and .45? In the opening scene, Gil Bellows (Shawshank Redemption, Alli McBeal) holds up Wylie Wiggins (Dazed and Confused) at a Ballard Grocery outside of Austin.
I guess somebody beat me to reality bites. where was office space filmed? what about the best little whorehouse in texas?
True Stories - with David Byrne and The Talking Heads. Great movie filmed around Dallas. Does Urban Cowyboy go top 20?
FINALLY someone mentioned "Urban Cowboy." It was the quintessential early 80s Texas movie. "My daddy's in oil...and all that that implies." Classic!
1. Urban Cowboy (Houston) 2. Dazed and Confused (Huntville) 3. The Chase (Filmed in Houston) 4. RoboCop (Filmed in Houston) 5. Old Yeller 6. Varsity Blues 7. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Burt and Dolly) 8. The Searchers (John Wayne) 9. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood & Kevin Costner) 10. Texas Chainsaw Massacare
Filmed in Austin, about Huntsville. Here's an article about Linklater's current project: Realistic football film the goal By SARAH HORNADAY Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Texas is proud of its high school football. Yet in recent years, it hasn't had a football movie it can be proud of. Austin-based director Richard Linklater is trying to change that. The current project for the director of Dazed and Confused and The Newton Boys is a movie about a group of Texas high school football players spanning their senior year to the year after high school. "I've always known I had a football movie in me," Linklater said. "It's been attempted from a lot of different angles, but I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible." Linklater was associated with the Friday Night Lights project when Ron Howard's Imagine Films bought the rights to the book that followed the 1987 Odessa Permian football team. The movie project never got off the ground, but it inspired Linklater to bring his vision of Texas football to the screen. Linklater, who grew up in Huntsville, played football and baseball. He was a quarterback and played for coach Joe Clements. His senior year, he moved to Houston and graduated from Bellaire, where he played baseball for another legendary Texas coach -- Ray Knoblauch. Linklater now sees himself in a coaching role as a director who gets the most out of his actors and crew. Though he has had the idea for more than 10 years, he hasn't been ready to make the film. He has worked through the football clichés that dominated such projects as Varsity Blues, a 1999 movie filmed in Austin. "I want the antithesis of Varsity Blues," Linklater said. "It jives as a total cliché. I want to go for a certain realism." And with that realism comes real football players. Linklater's company, Detour Films, is having an open casting call for men ages 17-21 in Houston, Beaumont and Lufkin next week. Linklater, who gave Matthew McConaughey his first role in Dazed and Confused, has four "star-making" roles in this project. No acting experience is necessary, but Linklater only wants men who have recently played high school football. "They have to be athletic, because you're going to have to play," Linklater said. "And I don't want to get anyone hurt." In addition to Varsity Blues, the 1991 college football movie Unnecessary Roughness was made in Texas, as was the 1979 pro film North Dallas Forty. Linklater is most intrigued by the story of the high school player. "(Professional and college players are) the ones that are tremendous athletes and dedicated," Linklater said. "In college, if you're not the right size, you're not going to make it. High school is the last time you can get by on sheer grit and determination. It's pure coaching and determination. That's what's interesting to me."
