All posts tagged "Boyhood"
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto...
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The Glory of Blaze: Ethan Hawke on His Restless Spirit, Coming Full Circle and His New Country Music Movie
Cool, cocky and complex, Ethan Hawke sits down with me at a breakfast table in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn for a spirited conversation...
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Balancing Act: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying Deftly Dances Around America’s Political Minefields
Texas-based filmmaker Richard Linklater’s humanist touch and trademark ease affords him the ability to gracefully engage with more than a few of our country’s hot...
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Best of 2014: Top Five Song Choices in 2014
What makes a great song choice in a film? The best ones aren’t just cool tracks that “sound good” with the picture, as in a...
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Festival Wrap: Los Cabos International Film Festival 2014
Cabo San Lucas (the area known as Los Cabos) is widely recognized as one of the top tourist destinations in all of Mexico, with its...
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The Making of a Boy: Richard Linklater on his 12-Year Labor of Love, Boyhood
Richard Linklater is no stranger to the workings of time—both as thematic device in his films, and as necessary ingredient to the moviemaking process. After...
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MovieMaker’s Summer 2014 Issue Hits Stands Today!
MovieMaker Magazine’s Summer 2014 issue, with cover stars Joe Swanberg and Melanie Lynskey, hits newsstands around the U.S. and Canada June 24, 2014. “Joe Swanberg...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Ethan Hawke
With more than 30 years at the forefront of American film, the multi-faceted, multi-talented Ethan Hawke is in a unique position to pass on the...
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Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2014, Top Big Cities: #3. Austin
It’s MovieMaker’s 2014 edition of the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker! We’re counting down through our Top 10 Big Cities, Top 5...
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From Austin to Austria: Richard Linklater Pulls An All-Nighter On Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater came to film relatively late in life. He didn’t start watching movies seriously until he was a teenager—he says the first film that really...
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American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...