Writer, director, and producer James L. Brooks has had the pleasure of producing some attention-grabbing debut films, including Say Anything and Bottle Rocket. The latest project Brooks felt compelled to support, The Edge of Seventeen, is the directorial debut of Kelly Fremon Craig, whose first produced script was the 2009 feature Post Grad.
Craig’s film is a refreshingly honest comedy. Its high-school kids actually look, talk, and act like high-school kids. Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), her favorite teacher (Woody Harrelson), and her family and friends aren’t archetypes. Like some of James L. Brooks’ best characters, they’re immediately recognizable.
The Academy Award-winning writer-director behind Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good as It Gets, recently discussed Craig’s film with us, his approach to producing, and how to best serve a movie.
The Film Stage: The second draft of the script was what really resonated with you, correct?
James L. Brooks...
Craig’s film is a refreshingly honest comedy. Its high-school kids actually look, talk, and act like high-school kids. Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), her favorite teacher (Woody Harrelson), and her family and friends aren’t archetypes. Like some of James L. Brooks’ best characters, they’re immediately recognizable.
The Academy Award-winning writer-director behind Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good as It Gets, recently discussed Craig’s film with us, his approach to producing, and how to best serve a movie.
The Film Stage: The second draft of the script was what really resonated with you, correct?
James L. Brooks...
- 11/21/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- The Film Stage
Stars: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers, Nick Dennis, Vince Edwards, Val Avery, Marilyn Clark, James Joyce, Rupert Crosse | Written by John Cassavetes, Richard Carr | Directed by John Cassavetes
Ghost (Darin), is an idealistic musician who would rather play in the park to the birds and at other small time gigs than compromise himself by going big time. For his band mates however, a little bit of fame wouldn’t go a miss. But when Ghost falls for a girl called Jess who he meets at a party (Stevens), she comes between him and his band members. Splitting off from the group and abandoning the life he once knew, he sets off on a search for fame and leaves his dreams behind.
Too Late Blues is another entry in the Masters of Cinema Series, a film made in 1961, filmed in black and white and directed by John Cassavetes. From the title,...
Ghost (Darin), is an idealistic musician who would rather play in the park to the birds and at other small time gigs than compromise himself by going big time. For his band mates however, a little bit of fame wouldn’t go a miss. But when Ghost falls for a girl called Jess who he meets at a party (Stevens), she comes between him and his band members. Splitting off from the group and abandoning the life he once knew, he sets off on a search for fame and leaves his dreams behind.
Too Late Blues is another entry in the Masters of Cinema Series, a film made in 1961, filmed in black and white and directed by John Cassavetes. From the title,...
- 7/17/2014
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
Ogilvy’s Baxter, Bignell and Quailey
A change of guard at Stw Group creative agencies Ogilvy and Jwt has led to the appointment of Nathan Quailey as general manager of Ogilvy’s Sydney office.
Quailey replaces Richard Carr, who has moved to Jwt to take on the same role there after more than a decade with Ogilvy.
Andrew Baxter, CEO of Ogilvy Australia, said: “Richard has been with Ogilvy for more than 10 years and has made a significant contribution to our business and staff development. We’re incredibly pleased that he can stay within the Stw family to further develop his career and take on new challenges; one of the many benefits of being part of a strong and successful group.”
Jwt’s Morris, Willits, Carr
In a separate move, Jwt Melbourne’s highly regarded head of planning Angela Morris has been promoted to the newly created national role of executive planning director,...
A change of guard at Stw Group creative agencies Ogilvy and Jwt has led to the appointment of Nathan Quailey as general manager of Ogilvy’s Sydney office.
Quailey replaces Richard Carr, who has moved to Jwt to take on the same role there after more than a decade with Ogilvy.
Andrew Baxter, CEO of Ogilvy Australia, said: “Richard has been with Ogilvy for more than 10 years and has made a significant contribution to our business and staff development. We’re incredibly pleased that he can stay within the Stw family to further develop his career and take on new challenges; one of the many benefits of being part of a strong and successful group.”
Jwt’s Morris, Willits, Carr
In a separate move, Jwt Melbourne’s highly regarded head of planning Angela Morris has been promoted to the newly created national role of executive planning director,...
- 10/15/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Ogilvy has unveiled the first campaign for newly formed government agency, Transport for Nsw.
The work aims to create behavioural change by combining a positive prevention message with reinforcement of the risks of drink driving.
Previous work focused on the consequences of drink driving whereas this campaign uses positive reinforcement.
The campaign primarily targets young men aged 17-25. The communication strategy was developed after research by the Centre for Road Safety showed many instances of drink driving occur after drinkers have driven to a venue without planning how to get home.
Andrew Baxter, CEO of Ogilvy Australia said in a press release: “Our solution was to dramatise the exhaustive list of ways young people can get home rather than choosing to drink drive, hence the tagline “Rbt means you need a plan B”. We have shot a multitude of ‘Plan B’ scenarios – some legitimate, some wildly fictitious – which will unfold...
The work aims to create behavioural change by combining a positive prevention message with reinforcement of the risks of drink driving.
Previous work focused on the consequences of drink driving whereas this campaign uses positive reinforcement.
The campaign primarily targets young men aged 17-25. The communication strategy was developed after research by the Centre for Road Safety showed many instances of drink driving occur after drinkers have driven to a venue without planning how to get home.
Andrew Baxter, CEO of Ogilvy Australia said in a press release: “Our solution was to dramatise the exhaustive list of ways young people can get home rather than choosing to drink drive, hence the tagline “Rbt means you need a plan B”. We have shot a multitude of ‘Plan B’ scenarios – some legitimate, some wildly fictitious – which will unfold...
- 8/21/2012
- by Cathie McGinn
- Encore Magazine
I’ve always been a war film buff, maybe because I grew up with them at a time when they were a regular part of the cinema landscape. That’s why I read, with particular interest, my Sound on Sight colleague Edgar Chaput’s recent pieces on The Flowers of War (“The Flowers of War Is an Uneven but Interesting Chinese Ww II Film” – posted 2/20/12) and The Front Line (The Front Line Rises to the Occasion to Overcome Its Familiarity” – 2/16/12) with such interest. An even more fun read was the back-and-forth between Edgar and Sos’s Michael Ryan over the latter (“The Sound on Sight Debate on Korea’s The Front Line” – 2/12/12), with Michael unimpressed because the movie had “…nothing new to add to the war genre,” and Edgar coming back with “…‘new’ is not always what a film must strive for. So long as it does well what it set out to do…...
- 2/28/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
It was doubly sad for me to learn of the death of actor David Carradine in an apparent suicide Thursday in Bangkok, as I was a witness to one of the more crushing failures in his artistic life.
In 1981, when he came to the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes with his handmade film "Americana," Carradine was at the top of his game. He was the star of a smash TV series in "Kung Fu" and such fine films as "Bound for Glory" and "The Long Riders."
But Carradine wanted to be a filmmaker. Tenaciously, he put together a clutch of film projects for himself to direct and planned to use his acting pay to finance his films, just as John Cassavetes was doing.
He hoped to launch this career with "Americana." The film was a poetic fable about an ex-Green Beret, played by Carradine, who drifts...
In 1981, when he came to the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes with his handmade film "Americana," Carradine was at the top of his game. He was the star of a smash TV series in "Kung Fu" and such fine films as "Bound for Glory" and "The Long Riders."
But Carradine wanted to be a filmmaker. Tenaciously, he put together a clutch of film projects for himself to direct and planned to use his acting pay to finance his films, just as John Cassavetes was doing.
He hoped to launch this career with "Americana." The film was a poetic fable about an ex-Green Beret, played by Carradine, who drifts...
- 6/4/2009
- by By Kirk Honeycutt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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