Writer-director Richard Linklater filmed his coming-of-age drama “Boyhood” over a period of 12 years. He used the same actors throughout the production. It’s a remarkable way to make a movie, ...

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Boyhood was one of director Richard Linklater’s most intriguing projects. The film was shot over the span of 12 years, starring Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as a divorced couple raising two ...

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Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" opened in New Orleans this past weekend, finally giving locals a chance to see what the nation's critics have been gushing about. Full disclosure: I am one of those ...

“I still haven’t really processed this film being over. It was such a long term thing. I guess a year, after the first time we don’t shoot, it will be, ‘I guess we’re done with that,” says Richard ...

In an impressively ambitious project, director Richard Linklater has created a film that uses the same cast over 12 years. There are few stories in Hollywood as ubiquitous as the coming of age drama.

“It’s the secret films you have to watch out for,” jokes Richard Linklater of his new movie Boyhood, a furtive experiment that he kept quiet for more than a decade. In 2002, he chose a first-grader ...

NEW YORK — Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making “Boyhood” has been named best picture by the New York Film Critics Circle. “Boyhood” also won best director for Linklater and best supporting ...