A snapshot of the lovely Steven Strait to whet the palettes of his adoring fans… The Wardrobe department is working overtime to get everyone looking suitably City Island. Steven and his impossibly likeable wife (actress Lynn Collins) dropped into City Island headquarters yesterday and the awesome Tere Duncan outfitted him
Day One: Pre-production Photography. So now it gets exciting. The cameras are being dusted off and powered up. Our B-Roll shoot has commenced and City Island will be begin to burn its beauty on to celluloid.Above Raymond (whipping up mystery and noteriety in dark sunglasses) and our brilliant Cinematographer: Vanja Cernjul (fresh
At the end of last year I was doing a little public relations work in New York to promote my documentary “Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris”. Accompanying me on my round of interviews was a very nice young lady, an assistant who worked at the firm handling the
For the handful of faithful readers of my weblog, I hearby apologize for switching gears from old movie and music epheremra to my other–you might say primary–obsession; the making of my own films, a maddening and utterly addictive puruit which I’ve been doggedly…um, pursuing since I was a kid (GAF
Continuing on our unplanned but highly appropriate month long birthday tribute to Orson Welles, I’ve discovered two clips of an interview conducted with the big dog in 1960. Clearly this is a part of longer interview–on IMDB the film is known as “Interview With Orson Welles” (gee, they really put their
Having just returned from the sixty-first annual Cannes Film Festival where, like many others, I had my hand out looking for money for my newest film (hence the paucity of posts this month–begging is a full time gig), I decided to look for some vintage Cannes material on youtube hoping
Happy birthday, Orson Welles. Tuesday, assuming you’d not only outlived the actuarials but had quit the food, the booze, the cigars and taken up yoga and lost two hundred pounds, you would have turned ninety-three. I’m sure wherever you currently reside, you regret none of it. I have four…”cultural heroes”
One of the tenets of this weblog, since it’s immortal inception last summer, was to find various things of interest that were popping up on youtube and link them–historically, anecdotally–giving some shape to the wonderful montage of archival material available now on the web. Oftentimes this is relatively easy: pick
Behold, below, two clips from one of the most extraordinary gatherings of filmmakers ever assembled on one prime-time talk show–scratch that, assembled anywhere. On a 1971 Dick Cavett show (when he was still on network), Cavett had Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman and Mel Brooks–all representing “young Hollywood” (though Brooks and
When Marx Brothers movies are discussed, they are generally broken into two main categories–Paramount (the first five features up through “Duck Soup”) and MGM (“A Night At the Opera” and the next–and increasingly less impressive–four movies). (The two worthless coda items, “A Night In Casablanca” and “Love Happy” rarely rate