So far, I’ve had bad timing at the Egyptian, in that I seem to be there on Sundays or evenings and the sandwich shop across the intersection is closed and I can’t get their grilled tofu sandwich. No matter, I got to see the entertaining Swedish film, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. A series of coincidences and misunderstandings give a man with a penchant for blowing things up a lifetime of adventure. It is a real audience pleaser.

Later in the day, I saw Boyhood at the Harvard Exit. Filmed over the course of 12 years, we watch as young Mason grows from a kid whose life is dictated by the adults around him, into a young adult ready to take on his own destiny. The transitions from year to year are obvious yet subtle, showing us a quite natural progression in the lives of these characters, Mason and his sister, his parents, his friends. Quite a concept, no need to find actors who look like each other to play the boy (or his sister). What an exercise in patience! And kudos to all the actors who made themselves available for the long run.