Tonight's guests are Richard Linklater on The Daily Show and Julia Ioffe on The Colbert Report.
Richard Linklater is a director and screenwriter best known for his movies Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, School of Rock, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. He is on to discuss his latest film Boyhood.
Filmed over a period of 12 years, Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” shows a Texas family literally growing up on camera, as their precocious child, Mason, navigates the perils of first grade through high school.
Partly truth and partly fiction, Mason is played by Ellar Coltrane. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette are his parents, and the director’s daughter, Lorelei, plays their older daughter. The result resembles an epic home movie, though it was cast through relatively normal auditions.
More than with most movies, “Boyhood” needed to keep track of its cast members, some of whom had other assignments and deadlines to meet.
“We’re all juggling schedules,” he said. “Every year there was this wacky practical side to the movie that’s not on the screen, but as you can imagine, to only film a few days a year of an actor’s life puts you in kind of a lower priority to the ‘real’ things they’re doing.”
A 12-year film odyssey results in ‘Boyhood’
This looks like a very good movie and it is an interesting concept.
Julia Ioffe is a Russian-American journalist, blogger and senior editor at The New Republic. She will probably be discussing the downing of Malaysia Air MH17 and Putin.
The Russian Public Has a Totally Different Understanding of What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 And it's more of a problem than you think
Did you know Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from Amsterdam? Did you know that, for some darkly inexplicable reason, on July 17, MH17 moved off the standard flight path that it had taken every time before, and moved north, toward rebel-held areas outside Donetsk? Or that the dispatchers summoned the plane lower just before the crash? Or that the plane had been recently reinsured? Or that the Ukrainian army has air defense systems in the area? Or that it was the result of the Ukrainian military mistaking MH17 for Putin’s presidential plane, which looks strangely similar?
Did you know that the crash of MH17 was all part of an American conspiracy to provoke a big war with Russia?
Well, it’s all true—at least if you live in Russia, because this is the Malaysia Airlines crash story that you’d be seeing.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
We 7/23: George Takei
Th 7/24: Fareed Zakaria
THE COLBERT REPORT
We 7/23: Mary Mazzio, Oscar Vazquez
Th 7/24: Elon Musk