It’s that time or year where I begin considering what films to nominate for the Critics Choice Awards, but more importantly, what films I’ll be considering for my Top Ten of 2014 (see my current list of favorites right here). One film in consideration is Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood, which is looking more and more like a Best Picture favorite every day and to continue to push that trend IFC has teamed with Hulu to release the following featurette exploring the twelve years it took Linklater and his crew and actors to make the film.
The video goes behind-the-scenes with Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater as they grow older with each passing year, delving into the creation of such an impressive project.
I first heard about the project back in told me:
I know, What is Life? No, it could be anything, it could be Parenthood, it could be Ordinary People, those are taken. Titles are tough, actually we were almost finished with the whole thing — it was last summer, last fall? — and we were like, “Should we go years, or what’s the unique thing about this? What if we called it 12 Years? Yeah, 12 Years, has there ever been a film called 12 Years?” and someone looked up and was like, “There’s a movie coming out called 12 Years a Slave,” and I said, “Well, who’s in it? What is it? Oh, Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen…” and it’s like, “Ah fuck it, can’t use that.” [laughing]12 Years a Slave? Not 11 Years a Slave, not 15 Years a Slave, but 12 Years a Slave?
Will Boyhood follow in 12 Years a Slave‘s footsteps and win the Oscar this year?
