Boyhood
Richard Linklater: ‘Boyhood was one thing, but I’m going to be in my 80s by the time this next one’s done’
The director shot his 2014 film over 12 years, documenting his cast growing older. As it’s re-released, the director reflects on his beautiful ‘time sculpture’ as well as a potential follow-up to Before Midnight and his 20-year project with Paul Mescal
Xan Brooks
09, Mar, 2023 @4:00 PM
Michael Apted: a vital and dignified director who understood how class shapes us all
Apted made his name with the brilliant Up TV series that examined people’s lives every seven years, before going on to become a film-maker of distinction, whose influence cannot be overstated
Peter Bradshaw
08, Jan, 2021 @10:31 PM
Ethan Hawke on regrets, race and surviving Hollywood: 'River Phoenix was a big lesson to me’
Hawke could have been a superstar to rival Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon. But, as he turns 50, the actor is thinking more about the dangers he avoided than the opportunities he turned down
Hadley Freeman
16, Nov, 2020 @6:00 AM
The top 10 long-awaited films – ranked!
Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait
Ryan Gilbey
20, Aug, 2020 @11:00 AM
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard
13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM
Why millennial stories are saving Hollywood
After decades of an older generation portraying the age-group inaccurately, a new wave of auteurs are shaking up the film industry
Steve Rose
20, Jul, 2019 @9:00 AM
Act your age: teens put the sheen on films about growing up
Like Eighth Grade, Boyhood and the new comedy Good Boys, the most authentic coming-of-age movies feature casts still in the throes of adolescence
Jemima Skala
24, Jun, 2019 @12:13 PM
How the coming-of-age film came of age with Boyhood
Its portrait of a young man is gripping – but the heart of the film is assigned to Patricia Arquette’s long-suffering mother
Peter Bradshaw
02, May, 2018 @9:00 AM
From Boyhood to Get Out – why the 2010s is my favourite film decade
The last seven years has given us career bests from visionary veterans and a horde of hungry up-and-comers ready to drag Hollywood into modernity. The death of cinema? We’ve never had it so good
Cath Clarke
29, Mar, 2018 @5:30 AM
A must-read book? Go on, make me
Faced with rave reviews of musicals, films, books and plays, why does Oliver Burkeman run a mile?
Oliver Burkeman
24, Jun, 2016 @2:00 PM
Everybody Wants Some!! review – jocks away
The muscle-bound freshmen of Richard Linklater’s joyful 80s campus movie reveal occasional complexity
Wendy Ide
15, May, 2016 @7:00 AM
Richard Linklater: ‘Someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’
As his lodger is re-convicted for murder, the director talks about the Texan justice system, the art of storytelling – and why he’ll always be a slacker at heart
Simon Hattenstone
30, Apr, 2016 @8:00 AM
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