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Mar 19, 2024 · Total enrollment is approximately 48,300. Kenneth Lonergan, American film director, screenwriter, and playwright who created compelling, closely observed, character-driven dramas that were grounded in mundane moments of everyday life. His notable works included the movies You Can Count on Me, Margaret, and Manchester by the Sea and the play The ...
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Kenneth Lonergan. Writer: Manchester by the Sea. Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter and director. His film, You Can Count on Me (2000), which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the NY Film Critics Circle, LA Film Critics Circle, Writers Guild of America and ...
- Writer, Actor, Director
- October 16, 1962
- 1 min
- Building The Mask
- When to Use Flashbacks
- Create Understanding and Deeper Meaning Through Omission
- Truth and Beauty in Humor
At the beginning of “Manchester,” we watch Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), an apartment building handyman, react to his tenants — the indecisive man with a plumbing problem, the woman crushing on him as he unclogs her toilet bowl, a confrontational woman bizarrely accusing him of wanting to watch her take a shower. He’s comically expressionless as he...
Used to fill in a character’s back story or clarify a plot point, flashbacks are often cruelly misused as expositional crutches. By calling attention to the past, flashbacks can self-consciously remove the viewer from a present. Worse, exposition and backstory are the antithesis of how film stories work; more than any other medium, films are in the...
His brother’s attorney, performing a professional duty, is the only character we see acknowledge Lee’s past. (“No one can appreciate what you’ve been through.”) Lonergan chooses to show us the past through a specific lens, carefully omitting key elements. Lonergan uses a long lens to shoot the fire’s aftermath. Quiet classical music plays. His wife...
Humor breaks up the bleakness in“Manchester” and helps the audience stay engaged. There’s a careful tonal meter that keeps the film from falling into despair. However, this isn’t simply a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down; it’s tied to how Lonergan sees the world and his characters. Lonergan’s films are about people who can’t get over ...
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Nov 30, 2016 · Kenneth Lonergan also wrote and directed the films "Margaret" and "You Can Count On Me." His plays include "The Waverly Gallery," "The Starry Messenger" and "This Is Our Youth," which was revived ...
Nov 17, 2016 · Few films have so far created a (richly-deserved) buzz among Sundance viewers than Kenneth Lonergan's "Manchester By the Sea," which our very own Brian Tallerico called masterful, and Amazon recently scooped up with a $10 million distribution deal.
Nov 10, 2000 · Kenneth Lonergan: I had done some directing in the theater. Not too much, one-acts and stuff, but every time someone else directed one of my plays in the theater, I was pretty involved in the ...
Sep 16, 2016 · Sept. 16, 2016. NANTUCKET, Mass. — Kenneth Lonergan is possibly the best filmmaker most people have never heard of. His first movie, “ You Can Count on Me ,” shared the grand jury prize at ...
