Coincidentally, not two weeks apart, I recently saw Family Plot and Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. I loved these very different movies, both 9/10. I just think it's really neat when great filmmakers give props to one another. As a film lover, it's really cool when I see things like that. Are there other times you've seen shout-outs of respect from one director to another that have stuck in your mind?
shareCoincidentally, not two weeks apart, I recently saw Family Plot and Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. I loved these very different movies, both 9/10. I just think it's really neat when great filmmakers give props to one another.
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What's neat is HOW Family Plot is referenced: its on the marquee of the local Texas town movie theater, and ends up in quite a few shots.
What's interesting is that there were more major films in 1976 -- Rocky, Network, All the President's Men, King Kong -- but here's Family Plot on the marquee. But there's also this: a lot of the major 1976 movies came out in the fall and Xmas season of 1976, and Dazed and Confused is set I think, in the spring/summer graduation period. Family Plot was released in April. Rocky, Network,and King Kong...fourth quarter films. However, All the President's Men was also released in April, and Taxi Driver in February.
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As a film lover, it's really cool when I see things like that. Are there other times you've seen shout-outs of respect from one director to another that have stuck in your mind?
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The only one I can think of involves Hitchcock, again.
In his early movie "Finian's Rainbow"(1968) director Francis Coppola shows a "fantasy journey" of Fred Astaire and Petula Clark ON FOOT across America, from the Statute of Liberty to Mount Rushmore to the Golden Gate bridge. Well, all three of those were in Hitchcock movies.
But then comes the clincher: Coppola films Astaire and Clark(or their doubles in long shot) walking near the schoolhouse from The Birds!
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Clint Eastwood referenced himself: In "Dirty Harry," a movie marquee is playing "Play Misty for Me."
ive seen dazed and confused since it came out back in the 90s...finally saw family plot last night.
shareHope you enjoyed both movies! I just recently saw both myself, over the past year, and loved them both. I was reluctant to see Dazed and Confused because I'm not attracted to or excited by movies about the stoner mentality whatsoever, and I heard Family Plot was a real letdown as Hitchcock's last movie, but I ended up really loving both films. I'd say each is a 9/10 for sure. I've come to watch a lot of both Hitchcock and Linklater's films of late, and I've been really impressed. They're definitely two of the finest American directors ever (Hitch for most of his films, though he was British-born).
shareCirca 2016:
Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater shows up among the directors praising the book "Hitchcock/Truffaut" in the film about the MAKING of the book, "Hitchcock/Truffaut." Turns out Linklater was a big fan all along, made such (among other things), but this seminal 1966 interview book.