Anticipating Linklater's "Boyhood"

Yes, Hoop Dreams was robbed of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar 20-odd years ago.

lol

lol, that should have read AN oscar

I just watched this for the first time the other day and loved it. It so vividly captures how childhood is a prison. Wish the acting was better all around - Ellar is OK, Lorelai is very good, main adult players are all great, but a lot of the kids & people who appear in a scene or two are rough. Loved all the loose ends - the leering restaurant manager, the step-kids, the second stepdad appearing in only three scenes - and the elision of the everyday over big, obvious moments. I like Linklater but I'm not the biggest fan, I find him kind of dull or "simple" for lack of a better word, and whatever bugs or disappoints me about him is all in that last scene and the final lines of the movie, which he wrote back in 2002. But good lord I'm glad Terrence Malick had nothing to do with this. I remember reading about it in ~2004 and being convinced that someone crucial would die before completion. I wasn't seeing movies so much when it finally came out in 2014 and now it's been four years and I've only just gotten around to it. Easily Linklater's best. Don't know why people love Dazed and Confused so much.

The plumber reappearing after all those years was the only completely ridiculous and unbelievably stupid and tone deaf moment of the movie. Felt like a commercial for DeVry University.

I think ultimately the best thing about this is how much of an ambitious undertaking it was and how mild and ordinary the result was.

Never been a Linklater superfan, but find myself appreciating him more with age.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/all/filtered

The Top 5 rated films of all time:

Citizen Kane
Godfather
Rear Window
Casablanca
Boyhood

Science!

I don't know if this was ever posted on ILX--don't see anything on this thread, and nothing comes up when I search the filmmaker's name. I'd never seen it till it turned up on my FB wall today. Looks like he beat Boyhood by about 15 years (and I know there are the Brown sisters, who got their photograph taken every year for four decades).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqpqiTMUEg