You can party like it’s 1976 at DAZED AND CONFUSED celebration this weekend
BBQ Films
Windmill Studios NYC
287 Kent Ave.
June 22-23, $22 (includes film screening, one pint of Sixpoint craft ale, and munchies), 8:00
bbqfilms.com/events
“You guys know anything about a party?” It’s graduation time, and there’s only one place to be this weekend to celebrate. The calendar might say June 22-23, 2012, in New York City, but it’ll actually be May 28, 1976, in Austin for the Party at the Moon Tower. BBQ Films will be presenting Richard Linklater’s 1993 indie classic, Dazed and Confused, at Windmill Studios in Williamsburg, where you can mingle with people dressed as their favorite characters from the film while downing pints of Sixpoint craft ale served from the trunks of movie-inspired cars and filling that high with popcorn and other munchies. Like Cynthia (Marissa Ribisi) says, “If we are all gonna die anyway, shouldn’t we be enjoying ourselves now? You know, I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like, right now, as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.” Of course, Randall “Pink” Floyd (Jason London) intones, “All I’m saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.” There’ll be no need to do that as you watch Linklater’s splendid look at high school, which deals with hazing, burgeoning sexuality, sports, drug use, friendship, cliques, and a kick-ass party to end one chapter and begin another, for everyone except the older Wooderson (a career-making performance by Matthew McConaughey), who famously proclaims, “That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.” The cast also includes Adam Goldberg, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Joey Lauren Adams, Rory Cochrane, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Austin native Wiley Wiggins as Mitch, with an epic soundtrack featuring all the right songs by Foghat, Alice Cooper, Nazareth, Rick Derringer, Sweet, War, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, and Peter Frampton. So for a “good ol’ worthwhile visceral experience,” head on out to Williamsburg and relive all those glorious moments of your misspent youth.