Richard Linklater's Long Awaited 'Boyhood' Starring Ethan Hawke to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival

Richard Linklater’s long awaited “Boyhood” will premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, where it will screen on Sunday night. It’s a welcome surprise addition to the Sundance schedule. In fact, we just listed “Boyhood” as one of the 50 Films Indiewire Wants to See in 2014.

For years known only as

“Linklater’s 12 Year Project,” the nearly completed “Boyhood” is said to

have begun production in Houston in the summer of 2002 and reportedly

completed shooting in late 2013. Filmed over short periods from

2002 to 2013, “Boyhood” is a groundbreaking cinematic experience

covering 12 years in the life of a family involving a divorced couple (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette). At the center is their son Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who with

his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), are taken on an emotional and transcendent journey

through the years, from childhood to adulthood. The

experimental production has largely been shrouded in secrecy as

Linklater has returned to it each summer.

With the addition of “Boyhood,” the 2014 Sundance Film

Festival in Utah, which kicks off on Thursday, will present 121 feature-length films, including 35 in

competition.

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