FILM 1615: BOYHOOD

TRIVIA: Richard Linklater cast his daughter Lorelei Linklater as Samantha because she was always singing and dancing around the house and wanted to be in his movies. At about the third or fourth year of filming, she lost interest and asked for her character to be killed off. Linklater refused, saying it was too violent for what he was planning (Lorelei eventually regained her enthusiasm and continued with the project).

Had Richard Linklater died during the 12-year shoot, Ethan Hawke would have taken over the directorial duties.

Ellar Coltrane, who plays the boy of the title, was 7 years old when the movie started filming and 19 when it finished.

Boyhood (2014) is one of only 11 movies to receive a Metascore of 100, the highest possible score that can be attained from professional movie critics on the review aggregate Metacritic, and so far the only film to receive this score upon its original release.

Ethan Hawke presents his fictional son with the gift of the Black Album on his fifteen birthday. In real life, Ethan Hawke compiled the individual Beatles songs into the Black Album to help his daughter Maya deal with the breakup of his marriage with Uma Thurman.

None of the actors were contractually obligated to return to the film each year due to the De Havilland Law under California Labor Code, which makes it illegal to contract employees for more than seven years of work.

According to Patricia Arquette, Richard Linklater asked her not to have any plastic surgeries, since it wouldn't make sense for her character.

Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.

FILM 1600: BOY INTERRUPTED

Boy Interrupted looks at the life of Evan Perry a 15-year-old boy from New York who committed suicide in 2005. The film made by his parents Dana and Hart examines how Evan's bipolar disorder and depression affected his life and the life of his family.

Variety noted that because of his parents' occupations, they did a good job in recording his life, and produced an "elegiac little gem". The Philadelphia Inquirer called it a "remarkable, deeply unsettling documentary", scoring it 3/4 stars. The Movie Blog criticised the production quality, but found that the film still "communicated effectively and with a lot of emotion". SI Live suggested that the boy's story perhaps did not merit a documentary, but it was "valuable viewing" in that it would educate people a little about mental illness.

(Information found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Interrupted)

FILM 1513: THE BOY

TRIVIA: Cast members actually used the doll ("Brahms") to prank each other on the set. On one occasion, one of the cast members propped the doll up outside of the other actor's bathroom in their trailer to scare them. Upon seeing this, they hurled the doll outside of their trailer, and the crew had to repair it, and make a replacement doll.

FILM 1398: THE BABADOOK

TRIVIA: The movie had a campaign where you could buy a copy of 'The Babadook Popup Book' for $80.00. The first 2000 copies are numbered and signed by the director, Jennifer Kent. The book contains popup pictures as well as additional pages not seen in the movie. (The campaign was only opened for a limited amount of time and is no longer available).

Babadook is an anagram of "A bad book"

William Friedkin (director of The Exorcist (1973)) said "I've never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Babadook'".

Of the film's total budget of $2.5 million, $30,071 was raised via Kickstarter. Most of the funds raised from Kickstarter were channeled toward the art department.

Coincidentally the words "Baba-Dookh" in Urdu/Hindi mean "Father-Grief" referring to the fact that Amelia's husband passed away before the events depicted in the film.

The name Babadook was inspired by the Serbian word for boogeyman, babaroga.

According to writer and director Jennifer Kent, the Babadook was designed based on stills from the lost film London After Midnight (1927) starring Lon Chaney Sr.

Jennifer Kent holds the rights to the film, when asked if there would be a sequel she said, "I will never allow any sequel to be made, because it's not that kind of film. I don't care how much I'm offered, it's just not going to happen."

FILM 1221: KRAMER VS. KRAMER

TRIVIA: The famous ice-cream scene, where Billy challenges his father by skipping dinner and going straight for dessert, was completely improvised by both Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry. Director Robert Benton liked the scene so much that he decided to keep it in the film.

When Justin Henry was Oscar nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award, Henry at age 8 became the youngest ever person to be nominated for this award as well as the youngest ever Oscar nominee in any category, a record which still stands today [August 2012].

The woman that Hoffman suddenly kisses at the party is Ingeborg Sørensen, a former Miss Norway and Playboy Playmate.