“Boyhood,” the Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama filmed over 12 years by Richard Linklater, will return to theaters nationwide for its 12th anniversary.
“We started filming this 24 years ago,” Linklater says. “The way life chugs along, you look up and it’s been 12 years since the movie came out and it’s kind of crazy. But the whole project was untraditional. We’d get together for a few weeks every year and film, so it ended up taking up a big chunk of our lives.”
When “Boyhood” was released in 2014, critics raved about the family drama and the film was nominated for six Oscars, winning best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette. Since its release, it has consistently ranked as one of the greatest movies ever made. Linklater said Independent Film Company, which released “Boyhood,” approached him about doing something for the 10th anniversary.
“I wasn’t in the mood, and I think I was busy,” Linklater says. “I just kicked the can, but the idea was, hey, let’s do a 12 year. Everyone does 10 and 20 and 25, you know? If you do anniversaries, they fall on the zeros and the fives. We’re the only one who kind of qualifies to do a 12-year anniversary that isn’t entirely arbitrary. But it was really just a delay tactic.”
