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Nov 30, 2016 · November 30, 20162:24 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 37-Minute Listen. Playlist. Kenneth Lonergan's new film is about a janitor, crippled by guilt and grief, who returns to his hometown after the...
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Oct 31, 2016 · After a bitter fight with Hollywood producers, the filmmaker returns with the shattering “Manchester by the Sea.”. By Rebecca Mead. October 31, 2016. Lonergan’s new film challenges the ...
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Writing a screenplay without directing it is obviously easier than writing and directing, just because it’s less work. But it’s not as much fun, mostly because you have no real control over the end product. There are exceptions. I had a wonderful experience recently doing a four-part television adaptation of Howards End for the BBC, which was then ...
They’re all so different. Apocalypse Now Redux, for instance, seems like this great creative experiment after the fact. I prefer the original Apocalypse Now myself, but I can see that doing the longer version so many years after was a tremendously enjoyable experiment for Coppola – just to see what the film would look like if he put absolutely ever...
Martin Scorsese stepped in when we were at a standstill in the politics of the editing process. The theatrical release represents the cut I had submitted to Fox Searchlight in 2008 or 2009. I was unhappy with it and continued working on a version of my own that I could live with. I suggested bringing Marty in as a respected third party who could wo...
I found myself focused on what felt like a new way of telling a story on film. One of the elements that felt very different from anything else I’d ever done or seen was this idea of letting the scenes play out much more as if they were happening in real time than is normal in a movie. In Margaret I tried really hard to create a more naturalistic rh...
Negotiating with a studio or whoever is paying for the movie or intruding themselves into the editing process, has nothing to do with editing – except in the broadest sense which includes politics and negotiation and personal relations in the equation of any collaborative creative enterprise. When you are editing you are trying to put the movie tog...
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Nov 30, 2020 · So, when I realized that You Can Count on Me was turning 20 years old in November, I reached out to writer/director Kenneth Lonergan to see if he’d be willing to do an extended interview about making his very first film.
Nov 18, 2016 · Article. Manchester by the Sea: Kenneth Lonergan goes deep with his third feature. The acclaimed writer and director is back with a Sundance breakout-turned-Oscar favorite. By. Nicole Sperling....
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Jan 27, 2016 · Manchester by the Sea director Kenneth Lonergan talks about the making of his heartbreaking Sundance hit, his incredible cast led by Casey Affleck, and more