Maudie–Anything but Maudlin
Maudie, a film about the self-taught artist Maud Lewis starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins
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“Boyhood”–Childhood is Never Easy
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, “Boyhood” is like no other movie made in Hollywood. This groundbreaking story feels like a documentary, not a scripted narrative written and directed by Richard Linklater (of “Slacker” fame), who films intermittently for five days each year over an eleven-year period (from 2002 to 2013). The decade-long time-span for shooting the story is in itself pioneering, but “Boyhood” is so much more. This coming-of-age story is about all families, families we know and families we grew up in. It is not exclusively...