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Podcast: Random Acts of Cinema
Episode: 839 - Boyhood (2014)
Description: It's weird to think of a film in the Criterion collection that took twelve years to make that doesn't involve production delays. I mean, who does Richard Linklater think he is? Some sort of anti-Gilliam: casting children with the intent that they will literally mature into their roles, smoothly wrangling a crew for over a decade, adapting to the passage of time, all with a seeming sense of ease, deliberate planning, and foresight? And then to have the sheer nerve to put all of that effort toward a non-forced, impressionistic, account of the living circumstances of just some kid and...