Best Don't Call It a Comeback; They've Been Here for Years

Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey, Ed Hall

Look, y'all: We knew this was going to happen. We just didn't know it would happen all at once. When we saw Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) – Band Playing at Club played by real band Ed Hall – and Dazed and Confused (1993), wherein our man Matthew McConaughey immortalized one David Wooderson, we knew these people were going somewhere. And they did, with varying degrees of artistic and commercial success, for a good long while. But this year? This year? With the fever-pitch McConaissance and the Oscar and Boyhood roundly proclaimed a masterpiece, just, by the way, on the heels of Before Midnight? And on top of that, the reemergent brilliance of Ed Hall live? Oh, late bloomers of Austin's Nineties, we do indeed salute you.

Richard Linklater
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Matthew McConaughey
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Ed Hall
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