Outtakes: This Week in Film News

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Richard Linklater’s long stewing labor of love Boyhood is released in Ireland today. In 2002, the director, best known for Dazed and Confused (1993) and Before Sunrise (1995), shelved his plans to write a novel-length meditation on growing up and instead decided to make a boundary breaking coming of age film. Filmed over a twelve year period, Boyhood is the story of a boy becoming a man in real time, as unknown Ellar Coltrane goes from sweet faced six-year-old to college freshman within the almost three hour runtime. With fine supporting performances from Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as the titular boy’s parents, Boyhood has already been widely praised — The Guardian has gone as far as to call it one of the decade’s best.

 
 

David Fincher’s Gone Girl may not be out until October, but a new trailer gives a more extensive insight into this hotly anticipated adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel. Showcasing Affleck’s central performance and drawing attention to a few surprising casting choices (Neil Patrick Harris? Tyler Perry?), we’ve high hopes that Fincher and screenwriter Flynn, who share a distinctively dark sensibility, won’t fail to deliver. Flynn has landed on her feet in any case — her first book, Sharp Objects, is set to be a TV series, with Buffy alum Marti Noxon signed on as showrunner.

 
 


Did you hear that? It’s the sound of hearts breaking across the world at the news that actor and sentient feminist theory meme Ryan Gosling is expecting his first child with on-off girlfriend Eva Mendes. Although bolstered by an “official confirmation” (yes, a tweet from Ellen Degeneres is now an official confirmation), representatives of the couple have yet to respond to People magazine’s claims. The internet has wasted no time in finding creative ways to express its collective grief through The Notebook gifs (after this month’s revelation that Gosling tried to have McAdams kicked off set, we need to let that film go, people). Gosling hasn’t been having the best summer — his directorial debut Lost River was dismissed at Cannes as a clunky and unoriginal mish-mash of cinematic inspirations like frequent collaborator Nicholas Winding Refn. Cheer up Ryan — with this (possible phantom) baby’s birth in September and a new Terrence Malik project due for release next year, you’ve lots to sexily brood about.

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