By Steven Zeitchik
One of the most intriguing releases of the 2014 award season (yeah, we said it) is “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater’s epic project that screened to rave reviews at Sundance.
As you may recall from the festival, “Boyhood” is the scripted coming-of-age film that Linklater shot over a remarkable 12-year period, a little bit each year, as we watch an ordinary boy (Ellar Coltrane) grow up while his parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) grow up with him–like a human time-lapse photography, as Hawke once called it.
On Wednesday, IFC Films–the company that financed the movie going back to the early 2000s–is set to announce its release plans, rolling it out later this year with a nice long awards runway to follow. The idea is to make it a breakout along the lines of Linklater and Hawke’s “Before” series, or perhaps even bigger. More…
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