Well folks, it’s been a year of seeing films, and a year of writing about them.
I didn’t see everything, and of everything I saw, I didn’t write about everything.
But don’t let’s stop that from having a fun time with a post that’s so simple to write it makes me feel guilty.
Here are my favourite ten films of 2014. And my least favourite five.
Released 2014. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke.
If you know anything about Boyhood before going in, you’ll know that it’s a hugely ambitious project that follows a boy, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), as he ages from six to eighteen years old, along with his mother, Olivia (Patricia Arquette), sister, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), and occasionally-present father, Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke). It doesn’t switch out actors to depict the children ageing. Richard Linklater has been following them for twelve years, semi-improvising a narrative along the way. It’s a small, intimate film with little drive yet it requires three hours to tell its story. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and you absolutely need to see it.
Actually, you need to see it twice.
Writing About Film 