The Best Film of 2014
The Oscars forced me to sit down with my print-out of the movies I'd seen that opened in 2014, and without further ado... 1. Boyhood The very notion of the movie is crazy. The challenges in making a film with a 12-year shooting schedule go far beyond anything. You can't even compare it to the 7/14/21/etcUp documentary series by Michael Apted that has followed a group of kids from 7 until very close to today with films every 7 years. It's one thing to just get together every seven years and see what's happened. You don't have to worry about what happened in the intervening, you just have to report on it. And in any event, Boyhood director Richard Linklater has already replicated that with his Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight series of films with Ethan Hawke and Juliette Delpy. Let's look at this: You can't sign a contract for longer than 7 years for an actor/actress, so for your primary cast members, there's the chance that you could be ...