Posts Tagged ‘Richard Linklater’
Film review: Boyhood
Jul 08 2014- Freda Cooper
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When a film takes years to make, it’s often not a good sign. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood took a total of 12 – and there’s absolutely nothing to worry about. He wanted it that way.
It follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane) as he grows from a six year old boy to a young man of 18, going off to college. But there’s no change of actor. Instead, the director took the novel, and more realistic, approach of using the same actor all the time. Every year over the course of 12 years, the same cast and crew re-united to film the next stage of the story, so we watch Mason grow before our very eyes.
Heads Up! Future Films: Boyhood
Jul 04 2014- Freda Cooper
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It may have been 12 years in the making, but Richard Linklater’s Boyhood wasn’t a film beset with production problems. That timescale was deliberate.
The director wanted to follow a boy growing up so, once a year for those 12 years, the same cast and crew got together to film the next stage. But it isn’t just the boy’s story: it’s just as much about his sister, mother and father. And, as Linklater and his cast reveal in this footage, it was a unique experience for everybody involved.
