Boyhood 2014 in Film Filmotomy
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2014 in Film: Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ and Moments That Seize You (and Me)

I remember when I first saw Boyhood and experienced my adult self reliving echoes of my childhood. Many films remind us, trigger times in our…

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Hit Man Filmotomy
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Film Review: Richard Linklater Returns to Crowd-Pleaser with ‘Hit Man’

Coming-of-age stories. Decade-spanning humanist narratives. Rotoscoped paranoid thrillers. Richard Linklater is a member of a unique class of filmmakers whose next move can never be…

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Posted in Oscars

100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 17

It is not fair to say that because A Beautiful Mind won Picture and Director, that the Academy were just not into darker movies. True,…

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #29

Way back in May I drafted a Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, a semi-regular kudos to the great film-related stuff I read. I mean, I read a…

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #15

For very different reasons I love television, Richard Linklater, screenwriting, and Melanie Laurent (Let’s play ‘Watch, Worship, Work On, or Wed’) – and they all…

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