For editor Tim Streeto, the trippy “Maniac” was a far cry from his other series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Not just tonally, of course, with Annie (Emma Stone) and Owen (Jonah Hill) going on mind-bending and genre-bending adventures, but also because Patrick Somerville’s Netflix series was conceived as a long movie, with Cary Fukunaga (“Bond 25”) directing all 10 episodes (varying in length from 26 to 47 minutes).
“I asked Cary how stylistically he imagined these different episodes,” said Streeto, who had never worked with the director before. “Would there be a consistency visually to them or would he shoot them differently, like the Hitchcock caper in black-and-white [‘Exactly Like You’]? He said, no, he really wanted a consistency to them in terms of cinema grammar.
“They also had to feel like dreams through editing, through sound design, through music,” Streeto added. “Plus, they cross-boarded the entire series with Cary directing all of them and...
“I asked Cary how stylistically he imagined these different episodes,” said Streeto, who had never worked with the director before. “Would there be a consistency visually to them or would he shoot them differently, like the Hitchcock caper in black-and-white [‘Exactly Like You’]? He said, no, he really wanted a consistency to them in terms of cinema grammar.
“They also had to feel like dreams through editing, through sound design, through music,” Streeto added. “Plus, they cross-boarded the entire series with Cary directing all of them and...
- 6/24/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
The cover story of our 2013 Fall issue, All is Lost proved a herculean exercise in filmmaking. Nearly dialogue free, J.C. Chandor’s sophomore feature plots its arc from the timeless motif of man versus nature, miraculously abstaining from repetition. Chandor exhibits a clear confidence in silence, allowing the surroundings and sun-stained face of Mr. Robert Redford to propel the story forward. Despite its effortless looks, making the movie was surely no cakewalk. In this behind the scenes video from HitFix, key players including underwater d.p. Peter Zuccarini, production designer John P. Goldsmith and editor Pete Beaudreau discuss their experiences in realizing […]...
- 1/3/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The cover story of our 2013 Fall issue, All is Lost proved a herculean exercise in filmmaking. Nearly dialogue free, J.C. Chandor’s sophomore feature plots its arc from the timeless motif of man versus nature, miraculously abstaining from repetition. Chandor exhibits a clear confidence in silence, allowing the surroundings and sun-stained face of Mr. Robert Redford to propel the story forward. Despite its effortless looks, making the movie was surely no cakewalk. In this behind the scenes video from HitFix, key players including underwater d.p. Peter Zuccarini, production designer John P. Goldsmith and editor Pete Beaudreau discuss their experiences in realizing […]...
- 1/3/2014
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
"We've done pretty much all you can do to a boat," director J.C. Chandor says of his latest film "All is Lost" in an exclusive featurette we're premiering for you today. And indeed, the production of this film was a substantial undertaking from a crafts standpoint and it's a treat to see all of the principals in one video giving their perspective on the film. Editor Pete Beaudreau notes that the concentration on mood and feeling and action made the project one of "pure editing." Supervising sound editor Richard Hymns (who went out onto the San Francisco Bay in a small...
- 1/3/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2013: ’12 Years a Slave,’ Chiwetel Ejiofor win (photo: Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor in ’12 Years a Slave’) The 2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards were announced this past Sunday, December 15, at a gathering of 31 Bay Area film critics at the Variety Club Preview Room on Market Street. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave was chosen as the Best Picture of 2013; additionally, the slavery drama earned John Ridley the Best Adapted Screenplay Award, while Chiwetel Ejiofor was voted Best Actor for his performance as free man Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped and forced into slave work at a Southern plantation in the 1850s. However, Gravity received the most awards from the San Francisco Film Critics: four in all, namely, Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón, Best Film Editing (Cuarón and Mark Sanger), Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), and Best Production Design (Andy Nicholson). Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney,...
- 12/18/2013
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Leonardo DiCaprio, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: 2013 San Francisco Film Critics Awards nominations (photo: Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) There were few surprises among the nominations for the 2013 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards. First of all, the somewhat surprising absentees: Amy Adams and Christian Bale for American Hustle; Emma Thompson for Saving Mr. Banks; Julia Roberts for August: Osage County; Forest Whitaker for The Butler; Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips; Joaquin Phoenix for Her; Oscar Isaac for Inside Llewyn Davis. Additionally, Spike Jonze’s Her is missing from the Best Picture roster, even though Jonze was nominated in both the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories. (See San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2013 Winners.) Now, among the surprising inclusions are Best Actress nominee Brie Larson for Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12 (Larson is turning out to be 2013′s Elizabeth Olsen — think Martha Marcy May Marlene...
- 12/15/2013
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Indiewire will provide updates of our predictions for the 86th Academy Award nominations through January 16th, 2014, when the nominations are announced. Here's our take on the best film editing race. "12 Years a Slave," "Rush," "Captain Phillips" and "Gravity" are all looking very strong here, with the anticipated duo of "The Wolf of Wall Street," and "American Hustle" the big spoilers. Best film editing predictions below. Check out all predictions in all the categories here. Strong Bets: 1. Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger, Gravity 2. Joe Walker, 12 Years a Slave 3. Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips For The Last Two Slots: 4. Thelma Shoonmaker, The Wolf of Wall Street 5. Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill, Rush 6. Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, American Hustle 7. Roderick Jaynes, Inside Llewyn Davis 8. Pete Beaudreau, All Is Lost Outside Possibilities: 9. Colby Parker Jr., Lone Survivor 10. Jeff Buchanan and Eric Zumbrunnen, Her 11. Mark Livolsi, Saving Mr....
- 12/2/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Here’s a first look at All Is Lost. Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, Academy Award-winner Robert Redford, and Academy Award-nominated writer/director J.C. Chandor (Best Writing, Original Screenplay for Margin Call) jointly announced that principal photography has wrapped on the open water thriller All Is Lost at Baja Studios in Rosarito, Mexico. Chandor wrote and directed the film, and Redford stars in a solo performance of one man lost at sea and his battle against the elements to stay alive. Before The Door Pictures. Neal Dodson and Washington Square Films. Anna Gerb are producing.
“After an intense two months of shooting on the water, we.re headed home and have finished production on schedule,. said Dodson and Gerb. .Jc is making an audacious film with a brave performance at its center.”
The director of photography is Frankie DeMarco and the editor is Pete Beaudreau, both of whom collaborated with Chandor on Margin Call.
“After an intense two months of shooting on the water, we.re headed home and have finished production on schedule,. said Dodson and Gerb. .Jc is making an audacious film with a brave performance at its center.”
The director of photography is Frankie DeMarco and the editor is Pete Beaudreau, both of whom collaborated with Chandor on Margin Call.
- 8/8/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK -- Representing the feature directorial debut of "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly, "The Gardener of Eden" plays like a slacker cross between "Death Wish" and "Taxi Driver". While its resolute strangeness and darkness are to be admired, the film never quite achieves a satisfying or coherent tone, with the result being that it lacks the necessary dramatic urgency or black humor to connect with audiences. Still, it demonstrates impressive risk taking, both by its neophyte director and star Lukas Haas, the latter delivering a memorably quirky performance.
Haas plays Adam Harris, a 25-year-old still living at home with his parents in New Jersey and working at the local deli. Lacking any direction in his life other than the elaborate bartering system he's working out with his similarly ambitionless friends, Adam finds himself sinking even further when he loses his job and gets cut off by his buddies.
His life changes dramatically when he lashes out at a stranger during a drunken range and accidentally winds up being responsible for the capture of a serial rapist who has just attacked a local girl (Erika Christensen). Celebrated by the community, he begins an awkward romantic relationship with the victim and decides to continue his crime-fighting ways. Rebuffed by the police when he shows up at the local stationhouse and demands a uniform, he becomes a sort of vigilante, with predictably disastrous results.
Adam "Tex" Davis' screenplay often goes out of its way to be outrageous, as evidenced by moments like the lead character's scooping out human brain matter from a tire tread after an unfortunate accident. Much of it feels forced, as with the character of a bike-riding drug dealer (an entertaining Giovanni Ribisi) who bears more than a slight resemblance to Harvey Keitel's "Taxi Driver" pimp.
But the film does have its resonant aspects, including the relationship between the young anti-hero and his bizarrely supportive father David Patrick Kelly). Director Connolly often makes the most of them in moments including a slow-motion, bare-chested instructive boxing match between the two characters.
He also has elicited fine work from the talented Haas, who provides complex shadings to his performance that give the film the illusion of a greater depth than it actually possesses.
THE GARDENER OF EDEN
Initial Entertainment Group
An Appian Way/The 7th Floor production
Credits:
Director: Kevin Connolly
Screenwriter: Adam "Tex" Davis
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Simpson, Allen Bain
Executive producers: Graham King, Jesse Scolaro
Darren Goldberg, Lemore Syvan
Editors: Pete Beaudreau, Michael Berenbaum
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Production designer: Happy Massee
Composer: Paul Haslinger
Cast:
Adam Harris: Lukas Haas
Mona Hubley: Erika Christensen
Vic: Giovanni Ribisi
George the Greek: Jerry Ferrara
Don: Jon Abrahams
Spim: Jim Parsons
John Harris: David Patrick Kelly
Mom Harris: Ann Dowd
Bob Huxley: Tim Hopper
Uri: Ori Pfeffer
Running time -- 88 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- Representing the feature directorial debut of "Entourage" star Kevin Connolly, "The Gardener of Eden" plays like a slacker cross between "Death Wish" and "Taxi Driver". While its resolute strangeness and darkness are to be admired, the film never quite achieves a satisfying or coherent tone, with the result being that it lacks the necessary dramatic urgency or black humor to connect with audiences. Still, it demonstrates impressive risk taking, both by its neophyte director and star Lukas Haas, the latter delivering a memorably quirky performance.
Haas plays Adam Harris, a 25-year-old still living at home with his parents in New Jersey and working at the local deli. Lacking any direction in his life other than the elaborate bartering system he's working out with his similarly ambitionless friends, Adam finds himself sinking even further when he loses his job and gets cut off by his buddies.
His life changes dramatically when he lashes out at a stranger during a drunken range and accidentally winds up being responsible for the capture of a serial rapist who has just attacked a local girl (Erika Christensen). Celebrated by the community, he begins an awkward romantic relationship with the victim and decides to continue his crime-fighting ways. Rebuffed by the police when he shows up at the local stationhouse and demands a uniform, he becomes a sort of vigilante, with predictably disastrous results.
Adam "Tex" Davis' screenplay often goes out of its way to be outrageous, as evidenced by moments like the lead character's scooping out human brain matter from a tire tread after an unfortunate accident. Much of it feels forced, as with the character of a bike-riding drug dealer (an entertaining Giovanni Ribisi) who bears more than a slight resemblance to Harvey Keitel's "Taxi Driver" pimp.
But the film does have its resonant aspects, including the relationship between the young anti-hero and his bizarrely supportive father David Patrick Kelly). Director Connolly often makes the most of them in moments including a slow-motion, bare-chested instructive boxing match between the two characters.
He also has elicited fine work from the talented Haas, who provides complex shadings to his performance that give the film the illusion of a greater depth than it actually possesses.
THE GARDENER OF EDEN
Initial Entertainment Group
An Appian Way/The 7th Floor production
Credits:
Director: Kevin Connolly
Screenwriter: Adam "Tex" Davis
Producers: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Simpson, Allen Bain
Executive producers: Graham King, Jesse Scolaro
Darren Goldberg, Lemore Syvan
Editors: Pete Beaudreau, Michael Berenbaum
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Production designer: Happy Massee
Composer: Paul Haslinger
Cast:
Adam Harris: Lukas Haas
Mona Hubley: Erika Christensen
Vic: Giovanni Ribisi
George the Greek: Jerry Ferrara
Don: Jon Abrahams
Spim: Jim Parsons
John Harris: David Patrick Kelly
Mom Harris: Ann Dowd
Bob Huxley: Tim Hopper
Uri: Ori Pfeffer
Running time -- 88 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 4/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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