The trick of Dazed and Confused director Richard Linklater's latest coming-of-age movie Boyhood is a real-life coming-of-age, in that his unique project was shot over a 12-year period to capture the actors as they grew up in real time.
Linklater cast Ellar Coltrane at age 6, shooting the family saga intermittently with co-stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette until Coltrane was 18. If you weren't lucky e**ugh to catch it at Sundance in January, the Trailer is your First good look, and even this minute-and-a-half sample of the moviemaking high-wire act is extraordinarily powerful, both visually and emotionally. Read more...