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C.R.A.Z.Y.&#;s DVD cover casts Zac as Ziggy Stardust, yet the movie left me with more of a taste to attend to Patsy Cline than David Bowie. As much as it wants to sell itself on its soundtrack, it&#;s hardly a rock opera with a standout soundtrack.
In a world where Peccadillo Pictures releases a billion trillion queer films, there feels something rote about the film&#;s narrative. Zac&#;s father is homophobic, resistant to his son ever being considered a &#;fag&#;, obsessed with masculinity and rejecting Zac ever taking on a more motherly role &#; something he essentially confirms for himself based on small identifiers when he is as young as 7. Later, he kicks Zac out of the house, talking about how disgusting gay sex is, and sends him to a contract. What&#;s interesting is a few twists to the cliche: Zac&#;s mother is defensive, whilst Zac&#;s father is somewhat nuanced. In one scene, Zac&#;s parents discuss the possibility their son might be gay, following his sexual encounter with a classmate. Zac&#;s mother retorts about how she had anal sex many years ago, and not just onc
Growing Up in Real Time
Ellar Coltrane in Richard Linklater&#;s &#;Boyhood.&#; | IFC FILMS
BY STEVE ERICKSON | The late French critic Serge Daney praised Eric Rohmer&#;s &#;The Green Ray&#; by saying its greatness lay in the way it created a one-of-a-kind sense of duration. The same is true of Richard Linklater&#;s &#;Boyhood.&#; I&#;ve never seen a motion picture paced quite the similar way.
Especially in its first half, which covers the protagonist&#;s life from age six to 14, characters pop in and out of the story with no explanation. In one scene, his mother is taking a psychology class. Soon afterwards, she&#;s married to her professor. The film is more than two hours and 40 minutes long, yet it flies by.
The only concrete precedent is French director Maurice Pialat&#;s work, yet Pialat&#;s films were deliberately jagged &#; one got the sense he wanted to piss off spectators expecting a conventional narrative &#; while Linklater&#;s storytelling is both elliptical and relatively gentle. At the same time, he manages to convey something profound about the way we experience time. When the f
Cinema culture is constantly trying to find ways to reinvent itself and change. One mighty project took a full twelve years to film. Richard Linklater and the cast of Boyhood would meet for an increment of a few weeks every year and film various scenes, resulting in a two and a half hour film that chronicles the growing up stages of a boy, Mason, from ages six to eighteen. As such, the production gives salient insight into the socialization of boys into becoming masculine, heteronormative beings in the context of the United States—or at the very least in the context of white boys in southern states. Most significantly,it can be gleaned from this film that notions of masculinity oftentimes regulate queerness through the utilization of biopower and imitation of identity, which, if strayed from, results in the othering of individuals and the exclusion of them from the “charmed circle.”
Mason’s mother throughout the twelve-year span partners with various men, all of who serve as father figures for Mason, and thus influencers of masculinity. His biological father has the most recu
Much of cinema strives to translate the essence of time as it passes in life, yet few films come close to what Richard Linklater has captured with "Boyhood."
The year project, which Linklater began filming in the summer of in Austin, Texas, follows the story of Mason, played by Ellar Coltrane, from age 6 to age The film watches Mason (and Coltrane) grow up in real moment alongside his sister (played by the director's daughter, Lorelei Linklater) and their divorced parents, played by Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Each summer, the actors and crew got together for a few days to collectively work on the ever-evolving script and shoot scenes from a year of their characters' lives. The end result is more than just a time capsule of youth; it is one of the most profound and honest pieces of filmmaking ever created.
HuffPost Entertainment sat down with Coltrane in New York Municipality to hear about his encounter making "Boyhood," what it was like watching it for the first time and what was behind all of his many haircuts:
What was your audition fancy for the film?
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