Here are my Top Ten Films of 2012, acknowledging that I haven’t seen every film that likely could’ve ended up on this list: 10. The Trouble With The Truth A two-hander between Lea Thompson and John Shea I caught at a film festival, I did not go into this film with high hopes. Perhaps next…
The ‘Supporting Characters’ World Premiere at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival may have been the most exciting, and satisfying week of my life. Below are a small sample of the glowing reviews we recieved. “Ultimately ending on a note of perfectly judged emotional ambivalence that’s almost worthy of a season-ending episode of Mad Men.” -…
So in honor of the announcement that we’ll be holding the World Premiere of Supporting Characters (which herefore shall be referred to as “SC” for sake of brevity) at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, I thought I’d publish the first of several blogs about making the film, starting with writing the script. For years I’ve…
MY NEW PROJECT GETS ANNOUNCED! From Variety: Fresh off his critically acclaimed turn in Sundance’s audience award winner “The Surrogate,” John Hawkes has committed to star opposite Yasiin Bey in the Elmore Leonard adaptation “Switch,” from writer-director Dan Schechter (“Supporting Characters”). The crime drama will serve as a prequel to Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” with…
Vincent Piazza auditioned for the first film I ever made, The Big Bad Swim, and blew me away. I didn’t direct that film and therefore couldn’t cast him, but I remembered him on my directorial debut and he was kind enough to sign on. He has since gone on to deliver great performances in “The…
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I love cutting trailers and teasers. I’ve done about 10, mostly for free (though several for embarrasingly low fees), and mostly for friends with independent features I enjoy, but I never tire of editing them. My formula is fairly simple, amateur and redundant, especially for comedies: Joke, music kicks in, exposition, joke, music/tone shift, big…
Todd Strauss-Schulson is likely the most talented director I attended college with. He was a year older than me, but easily produced the most entertaining, polished and intimidating short films of anyone at Emerson. He went on to direct several industry eye-catching shorts including Mano-A-Mano, Big Pussy and College Humor films like Die Hardly Working….
@5QQs will be a new interview series with friends and people I respect in the biz. I’ll try to ask questions they don’t hear a 100 times a day, and see if I can get some candid answers. So far I’ve gotten interviews from talent and filmmakers behind the upcoming “Pan Am”, Harold and Kumar…