Archive for October, 2011

Quei “Commedianti” di De Niro & Penn


28 Oct

 

Notizia che mi mandò in solluchero, davvero. Be’, già, da cinefilo aggiornato alle più succose news, ne avevo già letto e discusso, in altre sedi, ma ieri n’è arrivata la conferma ufficialissima, a “fucilarmi” di gioia, e definitiva.

E, dunque sia… in bocca al lupo, volponi e leoni!
Perché siete Genius come me, anche se io, indubitabilmente, vi supero, è ovvio.

 

Il progetto The Comedian, pellicola di cui aveva “vociferato” la Bibbia “Variety”, e anch’essa la riconferma, torna d’attualità perché, semplicemente, è tutto deciso… si girerà in tempi abbastanza brevi, per la precisione nella Primavera del prossimo anno.

Deadline” ne ha diramato il comunicato stampa…

 

FilmNation Entertainment announced today that they will handle international sales for The Comedian. The drama will be directed by Sean Penn (Into the Wild) and will star two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids). Written by Art Linson with Jeffrey Ross, the movie will be produced by Art Linson (Into the Wild), John Linson, Jon Kilik and Robert De Niro. Shannon Costello will be associate producing.

In the film, Jackie Burke (De Niro) is a raging comic who is past his prime. A once loved TV character in his hey day, he clings to any recognition of his former fame in the hope of reviving his now stagnant career. After being sentenced to community service for hitting an audience member in the head with his microphone, Jackie meets Harmony (Wiig), a dazzling and defiant redhead who turns his life sideways.

“We’re so excited to be working with such an amazingly talented group of filmmakers on this movie. It simply doesn’t get much better than this, especially for us New Yorkers!,” said FilmNation Entertainment’s CEO Glen Basner.

Production is slated to start in the spring of 2012.

 

Leggendo tutto ciò, ebbene traduciamolo… The Comedian sarà la “mattocchia” storia d’un comico “furioso”, Jackie Burke, interpretato da De Niro, che, nel suo viale del tramonto, non fa altro che “collezionare” la sua vecchia fama e ora vive di riconoscimenti passati, dormendosela negli “allori”, unico modo che ha di rivivificare la sua stagnante carriera. Dopo esser stato condannato a lavori socialmente utili per aver colpito col microfono lo spettatore di una delle sue esibizioni, Jackie incontrerà fatalmente Harmony, che nel film avrà le ammalianti, fulve fattezze di Kristen Wiig. Una Donna con cui intreccerà una focosa relazione amorosa che (ri)temprerà di nuove, “lussuriose” energie la sua stella “caduta”. Tutte le premesse per un capolavoro, memori degli straordinari, bizzarri e personali lavori di Penn come regista, e soprattutto, qui, pare d’esser di fronte a una sorta di seguito ideale di Re per una notte, tant’è vero che inizialmente il produttore Art Linson aveva pensato a Martin Scorsese.

 

 

Il “pagliaccio” Penn è sempre impennato, e “imparruccato”, forse (s)truccato


28 Oct

 

Pomeriggio uggioso, quello di ieri, nelle autunnali “cadenze” malinconiche d’una Bologna nel suo Ottobre “sgocciolante” e agli “sgoccioli”.

Con i miei genitori… ah, pare che a una certa età sia proibito guardare un film assieme alla famiglia, mi son recato allo The Space Cinema, ex Medusa, di Bologna, per “improfumarmi” con l’ultima fantasia “scombiccherata” della premiata ditta Paolo Sorrentino-Sean Penn, il già celebre & celebrato This must be the place.

Su una scala, com’è “abitudine” morandiniana, da 1 a 5, in termini di stellette, gliene assegnai quattro, col lecito dubbio che potrei aggiungerne una, o “sottrarla” alla prossima visione.

Tant’è, che… “evocandomi” in Lui, l’ho recensito così…

 

Lagrime glam d’un trucco pindaricamente pittato

La vita… turbinii polverosi d’anime, infrante nelle proprie “scogliere”, nel veleggio autunnale d’una fierezza che, ardimentosa, svanì in nottambule nuvole dal color “raggrinzito” in foschie letargiche, o della lentezza melodica che s’è incatenata e “crepuscolata” nelle zone “oscure” che (s’)abbaglian di lucentezza, effuse nel proprio tergerla metafisica in armoniose grida smorzate in un’opaca realtà dai tenui colori aggrottati nel silenzio che la “balbetta”, o agghindati nell’incantevole manto che le abbacinerà d’un altro etereo assaggio o grido, d’una lacerazione che si (s)fregia di sé, nella ferita irrimarginabile d’una “pacata” vendetta dal mistico sapore della Luna inferocita, nei suoi auscultati impeti.

Dublino… “mieleggia” funerea, nelle soavi carezze d’una fotografia che imprime il Giorno d’una vivida stravaganza, “attempandolo” d’una densità atemporale, nelle “tempie” appannate di chi gironzola “claudicandola” o nel sonante, anche solar, gracchio della sua friabilità, purissimo nitore di nuda trasparenza, che s'”incenerisce” nelle torbide canzoni del suo Cuore e se n'”aleggia” amando un suo proprio arcobaleno di variegata, “cosmetica” evasione, forse l’identità nascosta ch’è “insuperbita” dal “vaneggiar” vanitosa in un trucco che gli “morde la coda”, che s’inerpica nelle rughe da celar con un cerone “pietramellare”, un rossetto che sbava l’infantile laconicità saggia di chi ne respira i gusti, in teneri dosaggi che lo smaltiscano e lo smaltino d’un perpetuo viaggiarsi, prigioni dell’anima che si sfiora “masturbatoria” in un amore affiliato alle maternità, idrofilo cotone che detergerà il ruvido “sgretolio” d’una apparenza ch’è intatta, tonante bagliore di se stessi.

Forse, Cheyenne, magnifico Penn in tutte le sue autocompiaciute, “apatiche” smorfie, si denuderà “vestendosi a modo”, acconciato per chi non giudicherà più la sua (non) maschera d’acconciature, e peccherà forse d’essersi tradito per accordarsi alle pigre “musicalità” dai “toni” più visibili e immediati.
La sua criptica enigmaticità che non (si) intimorirà, in quella prostrazione, sì lo è, violenta che ne “metamorfosizzerà” il suo profumo, il tocco, da altri, come dico io, b(l)andito, e or ne ossequia “valori normali” per mostrarsi com’è.
Con un bomber e uno smagliante, m’ancor “furfante & fuorviante” sorrisetto tra il serio & il faceto, l’incupirsi ch’occhieggia birichino d’una irrinunciabile malizia.

Sparito il ciuffo che “fischiettava” tra rosse labbra vivide, l’andatura sbilenca dal “clowneggiarla” un po’ zombi, e l’abbigliamento fuori moda che lo disegnava meravigliosamente “fuori sincrono”.
Nelle linee di tutti e, forse anziché errare in quel vitale vagabondaggio d’un sé che “permanentemente” si strugge(va), attracca a un pragmatico essere, “imperfettamente”, erroneo come tutti, o sonno dei suoi sogni.

Non so se Sorrentino abbia scelto bene questo finale, “pennizzando” Cheyenne in un metacinema aderente al “vero”, dunque dissimulatore, Sean.

Qualcosa, Egli non sa esattamente cosa… l’ha turbato, quel rumor d'”ossa” che s’eran “inibite” nella sparizione del suo “abito”, nelle corrugate piogge ermetche della sua “folle” solitudine, fra chiacchiere che si “rincuorano” e un Passato che lo rincorre(rà).

Spietata vendetta ch’è il prolungamento dell’ossessione del padre, il perseverarla nell’attimo propizio che ne “immortala” l’atrocità e gli orrori di Auschwitz, quasi in un “Taglione” perché il criminale muoia nell’istante fatale del suo imperdonabile, inestirpabile abominio.

Incontri casuali, “virginali” consapevolezze danzano notturne, tra “squilli” di fiamme e paesaggi, eternamente lividi anche quando son creaturali tramonti nelle loro fluenti eternità.

Sean Penn, primo piano perenne in mezzo a dolly, campi lunghi, prospettive, lentissimi zoom, cadenze perfino respiratorie, d’asma, di ventricoli o del sospiro delle nostre anime.

Come Cheyenne, la perplessità del (suo) giudizio, vaga ancora in me, e non si stabilizzerà…

(Stefano Falotico)

Le Idi di Marzo… “gondola(ro)no”


27 Oct

 

Ah, recensire è un modo per recensirsi, e qual miglior occasione se non il Festival di Venezia?

Partiremo dal primo Giorno e, di cronologia, ordineremo quest’altra mia evasione che fu tante visioni.

 

 

Una passerella che sfoggia il suo look borghese con adamantine “luccicherie”, fra “Vedo e ho visto tutto, anche se fingiamo d’intravederla”, divette nudiste a nuotarsi in un red carpet, magia dei loro soldi, e un Clooney che si piace, fotografato quanto lo smoking pulsante nella sua rasatura “sobria” da cerimoniere mondano, capitano del vascello veneziano a cui porge, quasi sempre gli omaggi, quest’anno in pieno charmeur d’apertura, con la folla urlante a delirarsi per un suo bacio che li coccolerà anche da lontani anfratti del vento, per una firma storica da incorniciare nella loro vita da bancarelle dei feticci, da mostrar agli amici come simbolo della vanità di George che si trasfuse, per un attimo da ricordare, nei loro occhi, in deliri baloccanti ad ammirarlo.
Marisa Tomei, inguainata, mentre, laggiù, un gondoliere è inguaiato con un ricco cliente che non gli ha dato la mancia. Non sappiamo se la “coniglietta” Marisa, d’addobbo quasi floreale, la diede a George, ma lo sguardo ammiccante fra i due potrebbe alimentar non pochi sospetti. Di quando George, optando per Lei per il ruolo della giornalista, spalancò così l’apripista di qualche Notte “canterina” della vellutata, cangevole Marisa, americana garbata, specie di gambe, italiana nella posa furbetta di chi è arrivata a mieter consensi oltreoceano con la sua birbanteria di chi “sa farci”.
E il cast, “pompato” per l’occasione, di panzuti Hoffman e Giamatti, a gareggiar nella sfida del fegato che, però, sa recitar benissimo.

Inizia così la sessantottesima Mostra. Soliti valzerini e rituali d’affamati mai domi, talvolta fasciati, quasi mai dalle vite sfasciate, anzi, ben sfacciate anche se potrebbe essere solo una facciata di “cortesia?”. Un sorriso che ghigna dietro rughe tirate per un’occasione da lifting “su di giri”.

Applausi a tuonarsi, in Sala Grande, restituita agli antichi fasti, anticamente rinnovata, e all’adiacente, anzi, un poco distante PalaBiennale, tendone da circo montato per il mese settembrino della giostra festivaliera.
Leggo di critiche che (molto) l’amarono, questo Le Idi di Marzo, di giuggiole belle più imbellettate di George e di critici da “Corriere della Sera” dall’”inappuntabile” penna stilografica che osannano, in un “Da non perdere”, un film tutt’al più da dibattiti politici e, appunto, da facili battimani.
Cesaroniane “congiure”, bugie confidate in pub sfocati nella penombra di giochi d’adulti, fra coloro che usano altro “pube”, fra corteggiamenti-occhiolino e la solita birretta, un po’ proletaria, tra amici che se ne fregano, “capoccioni” se ne fregiano, ma soprattutto si fregheranno .
Allestito con professionalità, col Clooney che “piacioneggia” in un ruolo cucito su misura e da come gli altri l’han sempre misurato, un Gosling-Pinocchio che n’è la sua simbiosi “pulita” (la locandina già svela l’”illustrazione” del film), due bellissime attrici, e due “bruttarelli” dalla parlantina veloce e schietta.
Il film scorre fra guizzi prevedibili e una certa prevedibile monotonia, quindi potrebbe sorprendere qualcuno, ché ci piazza una morale che sarebbe “colpo basso”, il “trillar” d’un bambino all’uscita, e il mare che gorgheggerà assorbendo anche le “rasoiate” del Clooney, Uomo amabile quanto il tramonto d’un Lido che, con la Mostra, si “nidifica”.
Ah, non stiamo qui a dar voti o stellette a questa par(l)ata di star, né vorrei concedere troppa grazia a un film ossessivamente verboso, che aggiunge al Cinema le acciughe alla romana, e che mi sento, George mi perdonerà, di snobbare, preferendo l’aroma della Tomei in ruvide pellicole in cui scoscia di più, danza negli ormoni, e di “clooneyate” non ammorba la sua Bellezza.
Lei è fiorita, e vorrei fiorisse in me, anche se taluni scommettono che, presto o nel “non si sa mai”, sfiorirò.

Le Idi di Marzo… meglio un libro di Storia. Almeno c’era più realtà “fantasiosa”. Questa è una ricetta rispettabile quanto George, indifferente quanto me dopo che “origliai” il mio caffè di prima mattina, o prima d’una sigaretta del mio “labirinto”. Non molti lo sanno ma Cindy Crawford tradiva Richard Gere con me. Ho sempre avuto più fascino, e queste son corna che non si dimenticano, quasi quanto i cornetti all’Excelsior. Le nostre “cornee” lo sanno…

 

(Stefano Falotico)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmato il Genius

 

 

 

I gigioni…


26 Oct

 

Ah, c’è chi vive da Uomo e chi da topo, chi è un Gigio e chi è Gigi Sammarchi, il Giginho de L’allenatore nel pallone.

A loro, comunque, va il mio più vasto apprezzamento, perché furon mio “svezzamento”, in un modo, inequivocabile, o nell’altro(ve).
Chi è un Capitan Uncino, e chi ne fa da spalla come Tortorella Cino.

Il Topo Gigio è romantico, puro e non “infranto”, e da tale, qual è, gigioneggia “a man bassa” e anche di mano morta, “nanizzato” nel vederla “zecchina” più di chi conduce lo “Zecchino d’Oro”.
Un personaggio unico e intrepido, che si lascia coccolare dalle donne e se n’effonde nelle loro “fusa”, attorcigliato in sogni diletti o del “ratteggiar” nel loro godibile letto.

 

“Piccolo”, Egli “asineggia” campagnolo, “ciucciando” il suo “ciuco”.

 

 

   Un Gigino… che si “gingilla”.

 

 

Ma, come questi due qua, sa gigioneggiar “scolarizzando” tutti gli altri, imbattibile perché ama, anche Lui, il Cinema…

 

Sì, De Niro “caponeggiava” in questa frase raggelante…

Cos’amo di più nella vita? Cos’è che mi dà gioia? Il denaro? Il potere? Le donne?
Il baseball!

 

E Pacino, ancor più mefistofelico, “azzannava” il “povero” Keanu Reeves, così:

Vanità, decisamente il mio peccato preferito.

 

 

Io adoro questi “Gigioni“, e li “doro”.

 

Firmato il Genius

 

Travis (c’)è, o sarà… un Joker


26 Oct

 

Sì, son Travis (Bickle 1979), e ho di nuovo mentito perché questo, invece, sarà l’ultimo “bocconcino” della mia jokerante (non) identità…

 

Una freccia nel (suo) “Cuore”

 

L’ossessione vendicativa è ii tema preferito del “pistolero stanco”, revenant delle sue “vagabondezze”, alterate in “ghezziani” tuffi nel B(l)ob

Mi “orrorificai” & “ossificai” nella “giungla” del Colonnello Kurtz, “variegato” in una miscela “spermicida” che taluni desidera(ro)n suicida, e brandii le “oscenità” in furori di tuono, dentro intonazioni “patetiche” e poi melliflue, arcigno guerriero “barbarico” d’inedia “barbosa”, per poi pattinar cigno nero con Natalie Portman in un bacio Thor.

Se San Paolo fu folgorato sulla Via di Damasco, io fui colpito da un fulmine a Roma, quando mi tolsi il basco “fantozziano” da Gabriele Paolini, anche un po’ Paolino-Paperino.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
compose il “Piccolo Principe” e taluni mi equivocaron per quello machiavellico, “macchiandomi” anche.
Io so bene che le principesse (non) dormon su letti a baldacchino col “pisellino“, ma amano, “usignole”, le baldorie

Sì, quando vengo investito dalla rabbia, abbaio nella Notte, e taluni mi scambian per l’Uomo Lupo.
Be’, a ben vedere, come Lon Chaney Jr., “volteggiai” nelle nebbie della “brughiera”, scisso nell'”alighierico” & un po’ alla De Chirico Purgatorio, indeciso se amarmi paradisiaco o dar retta al “letterato” professore d’Italiano del Liceo Sabin, l'”infernale” Parisini, che a tutti voleva metterlo nel “retto”, per indirizzarli nella sua che s’era smarrita…
Con quel professore lì, non si aveva scampo.
Le ragazze di quella “classe” eran già d’altronde proiettate alla vita (da) Hilton.
E i ragazzi, vessati da interrogazioni “a trabocchetto”, già boccheggiavano in una confusa sessualità da Maurizia Paradiso.

Taluni aspiravano al Nirvana e optarono per Kurt Cobain, “messia” degli spasmi nervici nel Grunge più “rugginoso”.
Altri, “melodicamente” più edulcorati ma sempre “pruriginosi”, senza rinunciare dunque al machismo imperioso della giovinezza “slabbrata”, si diedero a Eddie Vedder, perdendosi la “session” onanista, che fu per me “preziosità”, sul culo mastodontico di Vera Gemma e “tribolandosi” con troppe perle “argentee”, nel senso del padre di Asia.

Altri si diedero all’Oriente, credendosi yakuza alla Kitano, bastava (con)centrar la “mira” su una baywatchiana Stacy Kamano, e l’ansia di vivere si sarebbe allev(i)ata.

Sì, son sempre stato un Uomo bombastic da Pamela Anderson, che si sappia in giro, non me ne vergognerò.
Per anni m’ossessionaron i riti tribali di Scorsese e le ambulanze “nosocomiche” di Bringing Out the Dead nel mio sballottar i “cicli” da Fuori orario.
Poi, capii che la mia vita aveva bisogno dei Clash, davvero!
Tutt’ora indeciso sulle sorelle Arquette, Rosanna ha più tette ma Patricia ha più carne, son invece convinto che l’intera famiglia Baldwin si “elevi” solo per Alec, a cui vanno “sentite” congratulazioni perché tutti abbiamo sognato di “spalmarci” su Kim Basinger, una bionda tutta d’oro.

Sì, latro e ululo, da Uomo “benigno” divenni il suo plurale da La vita è bella, “zuzzurellando” in un volto ambiguo da clown.
Ora, paio Benicio Del Toro, la bassezza è a mio sfavore, ma in mezzo alle gambe son come Lui, do gas alle donne “al vapore”.

Potrei vendicarmi di molte ingiustizie subite, e “oscurarmi”, dunque abbagliandomi, nel Mel Gibson di Edge of Darkness, o “mementizzarmi” nel Johnny Halliday di Vengeance.

Al momento, preferisco la “Luna” che sculetta.

Firmato il Genius
(Stefano Falotico)

  1.  Apocalypse Now (1979)
  2.  Il cacciatore (1978)
  3.  Watchmen (2009)
  4.  Rocky Balboa (2006)

 

Ciao!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Se un De Niro “goofy-eggia”, un Penn “fisicheggia”


25 Oct

 

Un post che si “commenta” da solo.
Ah, ma Lei ha una “pancia” da commendat(t)ore, lo sa?

 

Let’s get physical, physical
I wanna get physical
Let’s get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eh sì, fra i due “leoncini”, io “correrei”, accorrendo per Shannon Costello!

 

Firmato il Genius

Asini? No, poker d’assi, anche un po’ “pork”, abbasso gli orchi, evviva gli occhi!


25 Oct

 

Avevo promesso che non dovevo anticiparvi altro del Travis Bickle 1979 “playlistarolo”, affatto “polistirolo”, invece son un gran bugiardo, e vi piazzo l’ultima(?) anteprima del mio “archivio”, cronologicamente nuovissima, quasi di zecca o da “Zecchino”.

Decollai a Collodi, con una mia vita “a tracolla”

 

 

Detesto i quattrocchi, che mi reputan un “testardo”, adoro le conduttrici gnocche (anche con Michela Quattrociocche “aquilenerei” di “Jocca“), e son Lu-Cigno-lo del mio “Pinocchio” che ama i “balocchi”

Verrà il Tempo in cui “friabilizzerò” le mie ossa in deliranti disperazioni, angosciose agnizioni in uno spettral “paesaggio” dell’anima, per ora la passeggio, anzi, la “pastello”.
Sì, fra qualche an(n)o, quando saran trascorsi molti e più giorni, evocherò me stesso in una “vecchiaia” nel “mare“, per ora “La Mer” m’immalinconisce e le preferisco la marmellata delle “mammelle”.

Non mento mai, anche quando dico le bugie e son “sfregiato“.
Pregiatissima Lussuria di chi s’invoca nella f… a, e focalizzerò sempre più le mie foghe senza attorniarmi di “foche”.
“Cannibalizzo” la vita, attento a non “semiotizzarla” in analisi geriatriche da scolaretti viziatelli “imbacuccati” in troppe teorie da Umberto Eco. Datemi Valentina Vargas e sarò il suo “apprendista” Adso da Melk, uno Slater “seniorizzato” dal Sir Sean Connery, sino a quando non scopre il Sesso e se stesso in questo “verso”.

Mentre, quasi svanito, cadevo sul corpo a cui mi ero unito, capii in un ultimo soffio di vitalità che la fiamma consiste di una splendida chiarezza, di un insito vigore e di un igneo ardore, ma la splendida chiarezza la possiede affinché riluca e l’igneo ardore affinché bruci. Poi capii l’abisso, e gli abissi ulteriori che esso invocava.

Sì, mi sverginai affatto rosa, molto “rosseggiandoci”, quasi un sorseggio al rosé, alcoli(sti)camente “anonimi”. Forse, solo agoni(stici).

Taluni, vole(v)an che non “la” volessi e in “essa” non m’involassi, e “scelsero” per me un ritratto da martire urlante, come il romanzo-Nobel che citai “addietro”.
È, avanti, a cui bisogna “tender(lo)”, senza “intenerirlo”.

A quel tempo ero affamato e andavo in giro per Christiania, quella strana città che nessuno lascia senza portarne i segni…

Dai su, lasciam pure le “stigmate” alla fame d’un antieroe di Knut Hamsun.
Eh sì, qui si “banchetta” di occhi e il mio Sguardo permea le mie finestre sul cortile, non contentandosi d’una Grace Kelly “a mezzo servizio” nella “cucina”, vogliamo anche i (ser)vizietti della vicina, noi siamo uomini-binocoli, un po’ “cocchi” che san ove posar l’occhio.
Detta, più papale papale, senza falsi “papismi”, le iridi alimentan la fiamma ormonale che al culo sa che va sempre associato l’ardente “bastoncino”.

Credo che non avrò mai un figlio “di sangue”, ma adotterò un russo con i capelli rossi.
E lo chiamerò Nicola.
Come dite? È un nome da “terruncello?”.
Macché, è il nome esperanto (che si fotterà Gomez Esperanza… dopo aver letto “Grandi speranze”, capì ch’era meglio “beneficiar” subito delle sue gioie nelle lenzuola), il quale concilierà tutte le “guerre fredde“, perché unisce il fascino Nicolas di Las Vegas, da “perdente” debosciato e carnascialesco, al Nikolai di Cronenberg, Uomo “imbattibile” nella sua “Perestrojka” fallimentare che “mafieggiò” in America dimenticando le “guglie” di Mosca.

Io non sono un Uomo che merita i baci Perugina, merito una patonza di Perugia che non indugi…

Applauso!

Firmato il Genius
(Stefano Falotico)

  1.  La promessa dell’assassino (2007)
  2.  Via da Las Vegas (1995)
  3.  Pinocchio (2002)

 

 

Sbarbato, ammiro un sicario barbuto, ch’è “cacciatore”


25 Oct

 

Molti sostengono che l’ultima maiuscola interpretazione di Robert De Niro “(co)incida” nel 1995, anno di due irripetibili capolavori, Heat & Casinò.
Niente di più erroneo. Possiamo, forse, tralasciare i suoi (non) protagonismi di Cop Land e Jackie Brown, il mellifluo Conrad Brean di Sesso & potere, e soprattutto il misterioso, laconico ma tagliente Sam del Ronin di Frankenheimer?
Per le strade d’una Nizza “parigina”, Bob “tremava” nel suo neon, tra folli inseguimenti automobilistici e una McElhone che inviterei nel mio “antro”, per “bestializzar” un po’ con Lei, “a lume di candela”. Anche di cannella, o di Cannes, eh eh.

 

Già approdato sugli schermi americani con ottimi favori al botteghino, anche se non esaltanti, va ammesso, Killer Elite è pronto a “esplodere” anche da noi, a breve, anche se non è stata ancor fissata una data italiana.

Questo, un promemoria che c’infuoca, ah, come c’info(rn)iamo con questo Bob/Hunter.
E tanto d’apertura con le “solite”, solidissime come quest’action, BMW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Firmato il Genius

 

 

Volai sul nido del c… o! Anche nel Lido


24 Oct

 

Ah, bofonchian di rabbie, col “ciangottarle” vivrete insaccati, “addobbati” con la gobba nel mar che si fregerà d’altre avventurelle a Fregene, con una Ferillona dal sorriso virago a cui “stender” un sorriso “ardente”, ben “basculato” nell’ormone calduccio che sgranocchia i propri “cantucci” senza ardimentose, toscanacce “Maremme…”.
Eh sì, vi conosco, come vi crogiolate al Sole, sparanzandovela col “limoncello” d’un “plenilunio” col vento “in poppa”.
Beati voi, che v’eccitate per le ciabatte e sempre v’arrabattate, poi battete le mani alla vostra immagine allo specchio per non abbattervi.
Sì, ne vidi di “oblunghi”, meglio il mio “nasoneggiar”, tarzaniamente (in)civile che “sorvola” e ha svoltato nell’umorale fra immorali visioni senza “gentil” visoni e amoral gaudio al Ciel che ho in grembo e batte al tonar della mia Madonna senza amari Ramazzotti.
Sì, vidi vergini “accoccolarsi” al cioccolatone, e il platino “pattineggiò” sulla “stecca” mandinga, vidi fiamminghe “detergersi” in un film di Bergman, e Woody Allen gustar “al mascarpone” un film di Vin Diesel, elucubrando che Eva Mendes è sicuramente più gasata a letto di Diane Keaton & Mia Farrow. Donne “mestruative”.
Vidi la piattaforma celeste “ozonizzarsi” nel MySQL, e Harrison Ford rimbambirsi dietro una “bambina” che lo mantiene “ben tenuto”. Visto che fisico? Ha settant’anni e ne dimostra venti di meno, togliendo le rughe… sì, la “tartaruga” ancora c’è, è uno sveglio il Ford e guida la Porschettina sulle scogliere di Dover suonando il clacson a tutti i trogloditi con la Land Rover.

 

Vidi “presidenti” pagar bene per una cena “al caviale”, più “al cavallo” direi, e far i moralizzatori con la Sinistra, e Giorgio Gaber mordere il seno di Lilli Gruber prima d’espirare.
Vidi Tim Roth fottersi Uma Thurman alla garson, e Sylvester Stallone combattere un Wolf a Garrison.

Vidi Gerry Scotti tastar il culetto di Jo Squillo, e sentii gli squilli di “tromba” quando passa il Papa.
Sì, Rita Pavone non ha mai pavoneggiato, “gianburrescava” con “Viva la pappa al pomodoro”, sposando poi un Teddy Reno, così come volevano i fratelli (e zii) Caponi de La malafemmina…

 

Monty Brogan, recitava così:

Sì, vaffanculo anche tu.
Affanculo io? Vacci tu! Tu e tutta questa merda di città e di chi ci abita.
In culo ai mendicanti che mi chiedono soldi e che mi ridono alle spalle.
In culo ai lavavetri che mi sporcano il vetro pulito della macchina.
In culo ai Sikh e ai Pakistani, che vanno per le strade a palla con i loro taxi decrepiti! Puzzano di curry da tutti i pori; mi mandano in paranoia le narici! Aspiranti terroristi, e rallentate, cazzo!
In culo ai ragazzi di Chelsea, con il torace depilato e i bicipiti pompati, che se lo succhiano a vicenda nei miei parchi e te lo sbattono in faccia sul Gay Channel.
In culo ai bottegai Coreani, con le loro piramidi di frutta troppo cara, con i loro fiori avvolti nella plastica: sono qui da 10 anni e non sanno ancora mettere due parole insieme.
In culo ai Russi di Brighton Beach, mafiosi e violenti, seduti nei bar a sorseggiare il loro the con una zolletta di zucchero tra i denti; rubano, imbrogliano e cospirano. Tornatevene da dove cazzo siete venuti!
In culo agli Ebrei Ortodossi, che vanno su e giù per la 47a nei loro soprabiti imbiancati di forfora a vendere diamanti del Sudafrica dell’apartheid.
In culo agli agenti di borsa di Wall Street, che pensano di essere i padroni dell’universo; quei figli di puttana si sentono come Michael Douglas/Gordon Gekko[1] e pensano a nuovi modi per derubare la povera gente che lavora. Sbattete dentro quegli stronzi della Enron a marcire per tutta la vita!!! E Bush e Cheney non sapevano niente di quel casino?! Ma fatemi il cazzo di piacere! In culo alla Tyco, alla ImClone, all’Adelphia, alla WorldCom…
In culo ai Portoricani: venti in una macchina, e fanno crescere le spese dell’assistenza sociale. E non fatemi parlare di quei pipponi dei Dominicani: al loro confronto i Portoricani sono proprio dei fenomeni.
In culo agli italiani di Benson Hurst con i loro capelli impomatati, le loro tute di nylon, le loro medagliette di Sant’Antonio, che agitano la loro mazza da baseball firmata Jason Giambi, sperando in un’audizione per I Soprano.
In culo alle signore dell’Upper East Side, con i loro foulard di Hermès e i loro carciofi di Balducci da 50 dollari: con le loro facce pompate di silicone e truccate, laccate e liftate. Non riuscite a ingannare nessuno, vecchie befane!
In culo ai negri di Harlem. Non passano mai la palla, non vogliono giocare in difesa, fanno cinque passi per arrivare sotto canestro, poi si girano e danno la colpa al razzismo dei bianchi. La schiavitù è finita centotrentasette anni fa. E muovete le chiappe, è ora!
In culo ai poliziotti corrotti che impalano i poveri cristi e li crivellano con quarantuno proiettili, nascosti dietro il loro muro di omertà. Avete tradito la nostra fiducia!
In culo ai preti che mettono le mani nei pantaloni di bambini innocenti. In culo alla Chiesa che li protegge, non liberandoci dal male. E dato che ci siamo, ci metto anche Gesù Cristo. Se l’è cavata con poco: un giorno sulla croce, un weekend all’inferno, e poi gli alleluia degli angeli per il resto dell’eternità. Provi a passare sette anni nel carcere di Otisville.
In culo a Osama Bin Laden, a Al Qaeda e a quei cavernicoli retrogradi dei fondamentalisti di tutto il mondo. In nome delle migliaia di innocenti assassinati, vi auguro di passare il resto dell’eternità con le vostre settantadue puttane ad arrostire a fuoco lento all’inferno. Stronzi cammellieri con l’asciugamano in testa, baciate le mie nobili palle irlandesi!
In culo a Jackob Elinsky, lamentoso e scontento. In culo a Francis Slaughtery, il mio migliore amico, che mi giudica con gli occhi incollati sulle chiappe della mia ragazza. In culo a Naturelle Riviera: le ho dato la mia fiducia e mi ha pugnalato alla schiena, mi ha venduto alla polizia, maledetta puttana!
In culo a mio padre, con il suo insanabile dolore, che beve acqua minerale dietro il banco del suo bar, vendendo whisky ai pompieri inneggiando ai Bronx Bombers.
In culo a questa città e a chi ci abita. Dalle casette a schiera di Astoria agli attici di Park Avenue, dalle case popolari del Bronx ai loft di Soho, dai palazzoni di Alphabet City alle case di pietra di Park Slope e a quelle a due piani di Staten Island. Che un terremoto la faccia crollare, che gli incendi la distruggano, che bruci fino a diventare cenere, e che le acque si sollevino e sommergano questa fogna infestata dai topi.
Monty: No… No, in culo a te, Montgomery Brogan. Avevi tutto e l’hai buttato via, brutto testa di cazzo!

 

Datemi, datemela… Lea Michele e vedrete, Lei soprattutto “lo” vedrà! Altro che Uomo della Michelin!

 

 

Sì, dai Jack, il nostro Nicholsone… non giri più film e ti fai crescere la panza ai “palazzetti dello sport” a magnarti i Lakers con la tua risatona!
Ricordati, Jack! Son state le zoccole a fregarti… adesso, quel bamboccione di Clooney fa lo smargiasso, ma tu hai recitato con Marlon Brando e, a conti fatti, sei molto più simpatico di tutti.

Here I go out to see again
the sunshine fills my hair
and dreams hang in the air…

 

… No need to run and hide
it’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to laugh and cry
it’s a wonderful, wonderful life

No need to run and hide
it’s a wonderful, wonderful life
No need to run and hide
it’s a wonderful, wonderful life
wonderful life, wonderful life

 

D’altra parte, quando “gironzolo” su un sito porno, ho sempre tre opzioni che mi “scervellano”: se scegliere di guardarlo in streaming, se far il download, o comprarlo allo stesso prezzo delle prime due “possibilità”, per onanismi a gogò e al déjà vu.

 

Firmato il Genius
(che qui, vi ha anche “wikipedizzato“)

 

Chi è, o come sarà, “Il figlio di nessuno?”


24 Oct

 

Presentato allo scorso Sundance Festival con risultati “esigui”, no, non è stato ben accolto, è quasi pronto al debutto americano, The Son of No One (quando si dice “quel figlio di p… a”), terza opera di Dito Montiel, l’Uomo che sa riconoscere i santi.

 

Sì, è un film (at)teso, ha tutte le carte in regola per esser un poliziesco avvincente, per una vicenda “avvicendata” nel Passato.
La storia d’un ragazzo “milk” la cui vita “biancognola” è però scremata da un “caffè” torbido.
Cosa nasconde dietro quella faccia da angioletto?
Non riveleremo la trama, anche se da noi già passa in Tv, sul canale Sky per chi può pagar la “bolletta”.
E, già, “bollarlo”, come taluni critici finora l’han liquidato: un discreto thriller con un finale impresentabile.

Ah, invece io scommetto, e vi piazzo l’intero presskit di questa pellicola, augurandovi d’andare a vederlo, non perdetelo.
Potreste forse perdervi un Ray Liotta di nuovo sbirro con la pancetta? E un Pacino che “rimpiazzò” De Niro, così come Tracy Morgan “fregò” le “scarpe” a Terrence Howard?
Poi, c’è Juliette, da cui Katie Holmes ha molto da imparare, specie in fatto di “gonna”.

 

ANCHOR BAY FILMS AND MILLENNIUM FILMS
PRESENTS A
NU IMAGE
PRODUCTION
A FILM BY DITO MONTEL
The Son of No One
STARRING:
CHANNING TATUM
TRACY MORGAN
KATIE HOLMES
RAY LIOTTA
WITH JULIETTE BINOCHE
AND AL PACINO
PRESS NOTES
Running time is 93 minutes. Rated R for violence, pervasive language and brief disturbing sexual content.
Press Contacts:
LOS ANGELES FIELD ONLINE NEW YORK Chris Libby /Chris Regan Sumyi Khong Patrick Craig Annie McDonough 6255 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 917 9242 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 201 11 West 19th Street 850 Seventh Ave., Ste. 1005 Los Angeles, CA 90028 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 New York, NY 10011 New York, NY 10019 P: 323.645.6800 P: 424.204.4164 P: 212.386.7685 P: 212-445-7100 chris.libby@ginsberglibby.com sumyi.khong@starz.com patrick.craig@lbi.com stevebeeman@falcoink.com chris.regan@ginsberglibby.com
The Son of No One
Synopsis
In this searing police thriller, Jonathan (Channing Tatum) is a second-generation cop who gets in over his head when he’s assigned to re-open a double homicide cold case in his Queens neighborhood. An anonymous source feeding new information on the long-unsolved murders to a local reporter (Juliette Binoche) leads to evidence suggesting a possible cover-up by the former lead detective (Al Pacino), who was on the investigation. As Jonathan digs deeper into the assignment, a dark secret about the case emerges, which threatens to destroy his life and his family. Written and directed by Dito Montiel, The Son of No One also stars Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta and Jake Cherry. Music by David Wittman and Jonathan Elias.
Director’s Statement
Writer/director Dito Montiel teams with actor Channing Tatum for the third time on the powerful suspense drama The Son of No One following their successful collaborations on Montiel’s first two critically acclaimed feature films, Fighting and his impressive, award-winning feature film debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, an adaptation of his 2003 memoir about growing up in Astoria, Queens. Montiel often draws on his own experiences and the environment in which he spent his childhood and teen years. This is certainly true of his latest film, The Son of No One, with many of his characters composites of people from his past and his experiences living in the Queens Housing Projects.
The film demonstrates, once again, that Montiel is an uncanny story teller with what critics and many of the actors who have worked with the filmmaker call “a unique voice in American film.” Beginning with A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Montiel has shown a keen eye and savvy sense for interesting casting, this time around assembling a stellar and somewhat eclectic cast which in addition to Channing Tatum includes Academy Award® winner Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Academy Award® winner Juliette Binoche, Tracy Morgan and James Ransone. The film also features two extraordinarily talented child actors, Jake Cherry and Brian Gilbert, as the young Jonathan and young Lenny (the adult characters played by Channing Tatum and Tracy Morgan).
At this point in his career, when Montiel starts writing, he’s not necessarily certain whether it will be a screenplay or a novel first, and that was the case with the genesis of this film. “I just start writing – because that’s what I do for fun. I started writing what became The Son of No One based on this kid, Jonathan, who I grew up with in the projects. There used to be White John and Black John, which is what we called this kid and another boy who were always
together. I always mix up people I knew, and there was a kid we named Milk because he was so white.”
Montiel explains his process of developing the story: “So I had this idea and just started messing with it and writing some stories, then a long story. It started to feel like a book at one point, but then it began to feel more like a movie.”
“It’s a bit of a crazy process I go through,” Montiel admits, “So I’m still trying to finish the book. I always was the kid that watched the movie for the book report, so it makes sense that I’m doing it backwards. When I wrote my book A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, if I knew then what “INT.” meant, it probably would have been a screenplay first. It ended up close to being a movie then. But it’s all the same to me,” says Montiel, who is also a musician and painter. “Writing, directing, music, painting – art is art.”
And what Montiel has created with The Son of No One is both a captivating character piece and a cleverly crafted suspense thriller in which there aren’t completely good guys or bad guys, but rather all the key characters are painted in varying shades of gray. As Montiel explains, “It starts off in 1986 about two kids living in the Queensbridge projects in Astoria, Queens, who kill two people and get away with it. The rest of the film concerns how they deal with that as adults in 2002 when something occurs that impacts their lives and all the people around them.”
Montiel elaborates: “One of the boys, Jonathan White (then known as Milk), played as an adult by Channing Tatum, becomes a cop because he needed the medical insurance. He and his wife, played by Katie Holmes, had a baby, and he was tired of working at 7-11s and record stores. It’s hard to get a normal job these days and getting a job as a cop gets you medical insurance. And that’s why Jonathan becomes a cop at 30 years old. So he’s now a cop, working close to his home in Staten Island and can live a relatively normal life with his wife and daughter.
“But then he gets transferred over to the 118th Precinct in Astoria, Queens, where he grew up and where much of the film takes place. He thinks it’s a bit weird, wondering why he’s been transferred there. It’s all under this supposedly ‘Quality of Life’ program going on in Astoria, where they’re trying to ‘clean up’ the projects—and basically run people out in order to develop the land for nice condominiums.
“They’re bringing in a lot of cops from different precincts for this, so Jonathan thinks that’s probably why he was transferred to the Astoria precinct,” continues Montiel. “But once Jonathan’s been brought into the precinct, he begins to feel that he’s been brought back there for other reasons. That’s where the interesting, weird twists begin—as his past slowly comes back, and things start to happen.
“Al Pacino’s character, Stanford, is now Deputy Commissioner, but back in 1986, he was a detective and Jonathan’s father’s partner—he’s known Jonathan since he was a baby. After Jonathan’s father was killed, Stanford would always take care of him—the way some people will just check in on a kid. I think part of it was that he felt bad for a little white kid in the projects. So when the boy is rumored to have killed those two people, I think Stanford helps him out—the way I believe you could possibly get away with murder in 1986. “So it seems that Stanford covered up the killings for young Jonathan—and then in 2002 things start to resurface. Captain Mathers, played by Ray Liotta, is about to replace Stanford as Deputy Commissioner. Now people are starting to receive letters alluding to the killings and Bridges, a journalist played by Juliette Binoche, is printing them. Stanford and Mathers are concerned that rumors will start about corruption in the police department and need to put a stop to that.”
Montiel admits he’s always been a big thriller fan. “I like all kinds of thrillers. Morgan Freeman, white girl, serial killer – I’d go. Ashley Judd, black guy, serial killer – I’d go. They switch around once in a while. But I do love thrillers, so there’s a thriller thing going on in the film, too.”
“I think it’s a beautiful story, but some pretty scary and crazy things happen. When two young boys are involved in killing people, whether it’s justified or not, and then covering up the acts— that’s scary. And what happens when this begins to be uncovered when they’re older; it’s no less scary.”
Montiel, in effect, has created two stories, one that takes place with the boys and their friends and neighbors in 1986 and the other when they’re adults, leading very different lives from one another in 2002. Writing the script presented some challenges for Montiel. “I love it, but it’s crazy doing this kind of story. There’s a lot of room for error, which I like, or rather, there’s no room for error but there’s a lot of room to make an error and I like that because it puts you in check a lot.”
As to his choice of years in which to set the two stories, he explains: “I thought 1986 was an interesting time and place. I was a kid then and, although it might have been awful if you were an adult, I sure liked it because it was in some ways a bit lawless. But when I think about what we got away with as kids, a lot of those things could be a headline in the New York Post. It was a little bit free-er then; I don’t know if it was better, but it was free-er.
“2002 followed a strange time anywhere in America, but particularly in New York, because it was that period after 9/11,” he continues. “But my reason for setting the story in 2002 was that there was this love affair with the police in 2001. I had an American flag and it was a nice time to be an American. Throughout the tragedy I was reminded of when I was a kid and there was a blackout. It was beautiful, with everybody coming out of their homes and being friendly, part of one big community. 2001 was a nice moment.
“But then in 2002, the love affair with the police in New York was starting to wane. So I wanted to have that awareness going on in the film. Given that Channing, Al, Ray and P.J. all play cops, I thought it would throw an underlying tension into the film. I’m not sure if people will notice it’s 2002, but I tried to keep it as real as possible.”
To bring the story to the screen, Montiel selected a perfect cast of actors to embody the characters he had created. “Directing a movie with a cast like this is a dream come true,” he enthuses. “But I never dreamt like this — that would be insane. Actually, when I was younger I didn’t dream about making movies. I grew up watching TV and playing on the street. I just fell into this stuff. I don’t know how it worked out, I really don’t. And every day I work on a film like this, I can’t quite believe it. On Ray Liotta’s last day of work I was saying to him `You know, the weirdest thing about movies is last night — I’m on the roof and I have Al Pacino standing there with a gun out, Ray Liotta has a gun out, Tracy Morgan is there, Channing is there, P.J. Ransone is there. I have cameras everywhere. I’m drinking a free diet Sunkist soda, which I love, and I’m saying to myself, I can’t wait for this to end, I can’t wait for this to be great. I’m so nervous — I don’t even want to let myself enjoy the experience. I just want it to be great and over.’ So, for me, a film is like a dream when it comes out. Making the film is more like a ridiculous reality.”
Montiel couldn’t be more enthusiastic or excited about his cast of actors and their performances. “I was blown away by everyone in the movie and I’m not just being a nice director when I say that.”
For the lead role, Montiel turned to Channing Tatum for their third film together. “Channing is Channing. I love him. I cried when I watched his film, Dear John and I think he’s a great actor all round. I don’t work with him just because I like him; I work with him because he’s great — and I like him too. He’s perfect for the role of Jonathan White.”
But he didn’t write the role specifically for Channing. “I started writing this as a book at first while I was making A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which Channing was in. And when I decided to write The Son of No One as a movie, at first I didn’t think Channing would be right. I didn’t think Jonathan White was a good role for him and I had a couple of other actors in mind, if it was ever going to happen. Then, while Channing and I were making Fighting, I started thinking more and more about him in the role. And I’m so glad I chose him and that he agreed to do it.”
As for Al Pacino, working with him may well have been a dream come true for Montiel. “Al Pacino. What am I going to say about him? One day during filming, I told him the best way I could put it was I already thought he was the king of the world, but now that I met him I could say he was also a very decent human being.
“The first day of filming with Al Pacino, I was a nervous wreck. And the second time I filmed a scene with him, he had five pages of dialogue — just him, talking to Jake Cherry, who plays the young Jonathan. So I’m thinking, `Oh my God, we only have one day for this. I could spend a week on this.’ And Al shows up and on the first take he does five pages of dialogue, word for word, sentence by sentence. It was crazy, but he did it. He was just incredible in the film and I think people will be happy when they see his performance. I know I am.”
For the role of Captain Mathers, Montiel selected Ray Liotta. “He’s the best, the real deal. I’ve been a fan of his since Something Wild. The guy’s incredible. And then there’s Goodfellas —what a performance he gave. I really love him as an actor. And playing Mathers took a lot of guts because it’s such a difficult role.”
Then there’s Katie Holmes who plays Jonathan’s wife Kerry. “All I can say is that audiences will see an amazing performance. I knew right away, watching her live on set and then in the editing room how good she was. I brought her onto the movie because I thought, `Okay, she’ll be interesting because the movie’s so crazy, so much madness happening, that maybe the family scenes with her and Channing will seem normal. But as we filmed their scenes, it turned out there’s nothing normal about their relationship, and their scenes together are incredible. The strange thing is that the scenes which take place in their house, which I expected to be like a sanctuary, turned out to be maybe the scariest part of the film, certainly the most intense — and a lot of it has to do with her.”
Tracy Morgan was cast as Jonathan’s childhood friend and co-conspirator, Vinny, in his first dramatic feature role. “I’ve been a fan of Tracy Morgan since `Saturday Night Live.’ When we were considering actors for the role, my friend and film editor, Jake Pushinsky, showed me a clip of Tracy on some late night talk show where he was being really serious — as I had never seen him before. Jake suggested I think of him for Vinny. At first, I thought that was crazy but when I called up his agent — who also happens to be Ray Liotta’s agent — and said, ‘I have this crazy idea,’ he said, ‘If you’re calling about that, Tracy’s in! “I don’t know if people are going to be surprised by the casting, but when they see Tracy in the film, I think they’re really going to like his performance and be moved by it. I know I am.”
For the role of the journalist, Bridges, who’s investigating the 1986 killings and the possible police involvement, Juliette Binoche was a brilliant but unlikely piece of casting, given that Montiel originally wrote the part for an American — and a man.
“When I first wrote the script I had the character as Roger Daltry — there were a lot of jokes that he had the same name as the guy from The Who — and it was written for an actor who I thought would be great in the role. Then one day I had an idea that a woman who wasn’t from New York, maybe not even an American, might make it more interesting. And Juliette Binoche just came to mind. I became obsessed with getting her for the film. I don’t know quite how, but we got lucky enough for it to happen. When she said yes, I was amazed and excited. There were just a few days filming with her, but she did a great job in this pivotal role.”
Another key actor in the cast is James (P.J.) Ransone who plays Prudenti, Jonathan’s new partner who, unbeknownst to Jonathan, is keeping an eye on him for Captain Mathers. “I thought James would be great casting for the role of Prudenti, although he’s not as well-known as some other key actors in the film. I first saw him in Ken Park, a Larry Clark film, where P.J. had a scene with his grandmother and grandfather, yelling at them for playing Scrabble — and that was pretty much all I needed to make me a fan. P.J. is excellent in the film. He’s a really good actor.”
The most difficult casting for Montiel was the roles of Jonathan and Lenny as children in the 1986 part of the film. But he was fortunate to find two very talented boys who could pull off such difficult roles. “Jake Cherry plays ‘Milk,’ Jonathan’s name as a boy, and there’s probably, no scarier role that I’ve ever had to cast,” admits Montiel. “I can only think of one that came close — Shia LaBoeuf in my first movie. It’s an unsettling role, because here is this young boy who is doing some very adult things — not like he’s in ‘The Little Rascals.’ I was looking for a kid who wasn’t just a good actor, but who would make me believe that he lived in the projects and really did these things. At first I wasn’t sure, because Jake’s a good-looking kid, and sweet, but then during his audition he screamed — and I’m a big fan of screaming. When he screamed, he had the real scream. I felt it. I knew I had the right boy for ‘Milk.’
“The other kid’s role, ‘Young Vinny,’ is possibly even a more difficult role. During our casting search, a teacher up in Harlem who has a special class for really great kids told me I should come down and see them. So I showed up there and they wouldn’t let me bring any cameras. He had 12 of the best young actors I ever saw in my life. Brian Gilbert, who we chose to play this role, was one of them. I apologized that I didn’t have any scenes for them to read and the teacher said it was okay because they all had monologues prepared. I couldn’t believe it. When I was 11 years old I was bouncing off a wall. Brian’s monologue – I think it was Shakespeare – blew my mind. I couldn’t believe he had the guts to do it in front of me. He’s a very special kid and incredible in the role.”
It’s a testament to Montiel’s talent that every member of the stellar cast chose to do the film because of the script and the opportunity to work with him.
Channing Tatum had already made two films with Montiel and thinks the world of him as a person and a filmmaker. So it’s no surprise that he jumped at the opportunity to work on a third one together. “I think Dito had been writing this script for a long time,” he recalls, “but he initially told me about it one day while we were working on Fighting. He’s been a great mentor to me. He doesn’t pretend to know everything; he writes his scripts like a beautiful piece of jazz, and then when you get to the set you never know what’s going to happen. He says he doesn’t really know what the scene is until we get to the set and start to do it. Arriving on the set, he’ll say, ‘Oh, there’s a door there; there’s a kitchen there…’ and then figure out how he wants to shoot it, often changing the script. Because he’s written it, it’s not just improv. And now that we’ve done our third movie together we don’t even have to speak full sentences. We know each other so well, we just sort of grunt words at each other.
“I think he gets better and better as a storyteller and always knows exactly what he wants in every scene. He’s a kid from the streets, and he knows New York. He knows what a real scream sounds like; it’s not this actory thing, and he won’t let you cop out and do actory things. Sometimes when I don’t know how to play a scene, I’ll touch my face and Dito would say, ‘Stop touching your face, that’s a cop out.’
“This time around, I saw more than ever that Dito really knows how to construct a story. He’s connecting the dots a lot better than most of the directors I’ve worked with. Jonathan White is one of the very few Caucasian kids who grew up in the Queensbridge Projects, so his friends named him ‘Milk.’ He and two of his best friends are involved in killing this crackhead, and they pretty much get away with it. Then he kills another guy they know. But they get away with that, too. And now, it’s about 17 years later. The kids who committed these murders with him didn’t really make it out of the projects, as my character did. I enter the film as the adult ‘Milk,’ who’s tired of working in 7-11s and record shops. At age 30, he’s become a cop, which he never really wanted to do because his father was one. But he needs to get medical insurance for his little girl who has epilepsy.
“After about two months in the job, Jonathan is transferred to his old neighborhood, and soon all the reports about the killings in his childhood start coming out. At first he’s not even sure they are his murders. But it slowly gets worse and worse, and he starts to go a little crazy.”
As for Jonathan’s relationship with his wife, Kerry, played by Katie Holmes, Tatum says, “I think their relationship is not this picture perfect thing and I don’t think they believe that anything is picture perfect – in life, not just at home. For me, the backstory is they were in love, and she got pregnant, probably before they got married. Now they have this beautiful little girl they both love. But it’s hard because she is epileptic. I don’t know if their house is ever really happy. And now that Jonathan has to commute from Staten Island to Queens, it gives Kerry another thing she can be unhappy about. Then, when the reports about the murders begin, its effect on Jonathan makes things between them worse.
“This character’s journey is not really very far,” says Tatum. “Dito said to me, ‘Look, people don’t change that much in life.’ His character is pretty much in denial that everything in his life is lies. And then at the end of the movie, he maybe takes one little baby step — and that’s really it. He doesn’t even save the day or anything, just as in real life. He’s still trying to figure it out.
“The Son of No One walks the line of shades of gray, and right versus wrong. There aren’t big, epiphany moments… No one’s a good guy; no one’s a bad guy. People make decisions because they have to — sometimes they make good ones; sometimes they make bad ones. Sometimes they’re aware of that; sometimes they’re not.”
As for working with the other actors in the film, Tatum still can’t believe he was so fortunate. “Sometimes I think it’s insane for me to even be acting, much less be acting with these people. You watch movies your entire life and you see people you loved on screen — Al Pacino, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche, and Katie Holmes. I watched all these people, including P.J. Ransone and, of course, Tracy Morgan. To have Al Pacino give me a hug and say ‘you did some good acting today.’ It’s like check the box, I’m done. I’m good. I don’t need any more in life.”
“One great thing about Al Pacino is that he’s not set in his ways. He doesn’t come to the set with the attitude, ‘Okay, this is how I’m doing it, so you guys can figure it out.’ When he comes onto the set he really wants to play; he really wants to do things differently. He’ll do as many things as you’ll let him do. And that’s because he always wants it to be better. Because it’s true that once a movie’s over and they yell wrap, that’s it. Then the director and editor go into the editing room and you’d better hope you gave them all the colors you came with. Because if not, when you see the film, you’re going to groan and say, ‘I should have done one more take; I wish I would have thought of that one thing.’
“Tracy Morgan and I did a scene one night that was supposed to be really intense. Then it turned out to be this sweet, sweet scene between two best friends, with nothing but love for one another. Whereas that whole scene could have gone in the opposite direction. As it was written, I was supposed to grab him, threaten him and hold a gun to his head. After several takes and trying different things, we figured out that it’s really about two old friends. That’s the lesson I learned from Al. Don’t stop until the director has it every way.”
As for Tatum’s work with Katie Holmes, he really enjoyed their scenes together and has the greatest respect and admiration for her acting. He comments, “Tom Cruise is maybe the biggest movie star on the planet, not to mention one of the finest actors, so people can forget how unbelievably good an actress Katie Holmes can be. I’m glad that she wanted to do this film; she’s great in the role. She really takes her acting seriously. There’s none of this, ‘I’m Katie Holmes’ stuff. She’s just a normal girl from Middle America who loves what she does and is one of the best people I ever met in my life.”
Tatum was also impressed by Tracy Morgan, who plays the adult Lenny, Jonathan’s best friend from childhood. “Tracy Morgan is also going to shock the world,” says Tatum. “No one’s seen him do dramatic stuff before, but the guy’s a pro. I don’t think it’s a big secret that many comedians can be tortured people. I don’t know if he’s been tortured so much, but Tracy has certainly experienced a lot in his life. That’s what a great dramatic actor really is — somebody who’s able to harness those feelings you have inside and interpret them.
“What’s interesting about Tracy’s work in this film is that during his career he’s been groomed and conditioned to be so big and so outgoing, and when you take that away from him, it’s unbelievably intriguing to watch his quietness, because he’s got so much going on inside — it’s beautiful to watch.”
As for Ransone, who plays Jonathan’s partner, Prudenti, Tatum was really impressed by his talent. “I’d never met the guy before, and he comes in one day and we do a scene together. I had no idea how good he’d be in the role. I’d seen a couple of things he was in, but not the Larry Clark movie, and P.J. turned out to be one of the finer young actors I’ve ever worked with. He’s smart and doesn’t make normal acting choices. I admire that.”
In the few days Juliette Binoche worked on the film, her scenes are all with Tatum, with one also including Ransone. “Juliette Binoche is a strong, strong force,” says Tatum. “She definitely has masculine energy if she wants it, which she needed for the role of ‘Bridges.’ But she can also turn on the beautiful, female sort of energy when she wants to — like when she laughs or lets that character down for a second, and then you get to see her.”
About the Cast
CHANNING TATUM — ‘JONATHAN WHITE’
Channing Tatum is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors, establishing himself among Hollywood’s next generation of leading men. With The Son Of No One, Tatum teams up with writer-director Dito Montiel for their third film together, following the critically acclaimed A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Fighting.
Most recently, Tatum starred in four films scheduled for release in 2011. In The Dilemma, Tatum starred opposite Kevin James, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Connelly and Winona Ryder. Ron Howard directed the comedy about a man who discovers that his best friend’s wife is having an affair. The movie was produced by Brian Grazer and Vince Vaughn.
Tatum also starred in the forthcoming Roman epic adventure, The Eagle of the Ninth, directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. Also starring in the film are Jamie Bell (Defiance, Jumper) and Donald Sutherland.
Tatum also had a starring role in Steven Soderbergh’s forthcoming Haywire (formerly known as Knockout). In this spy thriller Tatum starred opposite Gina Carano, Dennis Quaid, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas.
Tatum’s fourth upcoming film is The Vow, in which he starred opposite Rachel McAdams. The story revolves around the real-life story of New Mexico newlyweds who are involved in a car crash. The wife slips into a coma and is cared for by her devoted husband. When she comes to, without any memory of her husband or their marriage, he attempts to win her again. The film was directed by Michael Sucsy and produced by Spyglass.
He was most recently seen starring opposite Amanda Seyfried in the box office hit, Dear John, based on the adaptation of the Nicolas Sparks (The Notebook) bestseller. He plays a soldier on leave from the army when me meets and falls in love with a young woman (Seyfried). Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat) directed the adapted script by Jamie Linden.
In August 2009, Tatum was seen in the box office hit, G.I. Joe, directed by Stephen Sommers. Tatum starred opposite Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, and Dennis Quaid.
In April 2009, he starred opposite Terrence Howard in Fighting, the second film Tatum and Montiel made together. Tatum starred as Sean Arthur, a young man struggling to survive on the streets of New York when he is discovered by a veteran street hustler (Howard) and lured into a dangerous world of underground street fighting.
In March 2006, Tatum starred in the searing drama, Stop/Loss for critically acclaimed director Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry) and producer Scott Rudin. Also, in 2006, he received an Independent Spirit nomination and a Gotham nomination for his powerful role in the independent film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which won the Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Performance, as well as the dramatic directing award for Montiel, at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film was written and directed by Montiel, based on his 2003 memoir of the same title and was Tatum’s and Montiel’s first collaboration.
This powerful coming-of-age drama takes place in 1980s Astoria, Queens and follows Montiel’s impoverished and violent life from his youth (portrayed by Shia LaBeouf) to adulthood (portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr.). His father is played by Chazz Palminteri and Tatum plays the role of Antonio, Dito’s best friend. Newsday called Tatum’s performance “charismatic,” with Daily Variety going on to say that “Tatum creates a powerful study of a self-destructive street guy trapped with no good options.” Rolling Stone stated, “Keep your eyes on newcomer Channing Tatum as Dito’s loose-cannon friend, Antonio. Shirtless and oozing physical and sexual threat, Tatum stalks his turf like Brando in Streetcar.” The Boston Herald referred to his performance as “Robert De Niro-esque” and The New York Times wrote “Mr. Tatum, who has the bullish physicality of a young Brando, is an electrifying actor, and I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more of him after this breakout performance.”
In March 2006, Tatum starred opposite Amanda Bynes in She’s the Man, directed by Andy Flickman and produced by Lauren Shuler Donner. Later that year, Tatum starred in the box office hit, Step Up, directed by Anne Fletcher and produced by Adam Shankman. The film centers around Tyler Gage, played by Tatum, a street smart juvenile delinquent who gets sentenced to community service at a high school for the performing arts.
Tatum was born in Alabama and grew up in Florida.
KATIE HOLMES — ‘KERRY WHITE’
An actress who has showcased her ability to play a wide spectrum of diversified roles, Katie Holmes has appeared in several notable films, ranging from the action blockbuster Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan, to critically acclaimed art house pictures such as Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and Peter Hedges’ Pieces of April. Holmes will next star in the forthcoming Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill for Sony Pictures on November 11th. Most recently, Holmes appeared opposite Guy Pearce in the Guillermo Del Toro produced thriller Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark. She also starred in and executive produced writer/director Galt Niederhoffer’s The Romantics, an ensemble romantic drama with Anna Paquin, Josh Duhamel, Malin Akerman, Candice Bergen, and Elijah Wood. In addition, she starred in Shari Springer Berman’s and Robert Pulcini’s The Extra Man opposite John C. Reilly, Kevin Kline and Paul Dano. Earlier this year, Holmes starred in “The Kennedys” as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy opposite Greg Kinnear as President John F. Kennedy. The miniseries chronicled the story of the most fabled political family in American history and garnered 10 Emmy® nominations including ‘Outstanding Miniseries.’
Holmes has worked with some of Hollywood’s most prominent and talented directors. Her credits include Curtis Hanson’s Wonder Boys, Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking, Sam Raimi’s The Gift, Stephen Gaghan’s Abandon, Doug Liman’s Go, Joel Schumacher’s Phone Booth, Keith Gordon’s The Singing Detective, Forest Whitaker’s First Daughter, Kevin Williamson’s Teaching Mrs. Tingle and David Nutter’s Disturbing Behavior. In 2008 she made her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” opposite John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson. Her portrayal of Ann garnered glowing reviews and established her as an accomplished actress on both screen and stage. In 1996 Holmes landed the role of Libbets Casey, opposite Tobey Maguire and Sigourney Weaver in Ang Lee’s award-winning drama The Ice Storm. A year later she was cast as Joey Potter on the WB TV series “Dawson’s Creek,” opposite James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams. The show quickly became the highest-rated series on the WB network throughout its six season run. In 2009, Holmes co-founded the Dizzy Feet Foundation, a non-profit organization which aims to help underprivileged youth realize their dream of becoming professional dancers and works to support, improve, and increase access to dance education in the United States. Her co-founders include director Adam Shankman, producer Nigel Lythgoe, “Dancing with the Stars” judge Carrie Ann Inaba, business manager Mike Thompson, and attorney, Mona Metwalli. Holmes’ work with the foundation was recognized at Variety’s 2010 Power of Women event where she was honored alongside a select group of Hollywood’s most philanthropically impactful women.
TRACY MORGAN — ‘VINNY’
Tracy Morgan is currently starring on NBC’s Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning “30 Rock,” in which he appears opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin as Tracy Jordan, the unpredictable star of Lemon’s (Fey’s) hit variety show, ‘TGS with Tracy Jordan.’ In 2009, Morgan received his first Emmy® nomination for this role, in the Supporting Actor category. For the past three years Morgan has also been nominated for a Supporting Actor NAACP Image Award. In 2008, the “30 Rock” cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.” Morgan recently wrapped production on Presdisposed, which he stars in alongside Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg. The film will be released in 2012.
2010 was another busy year for Morgan. First up was Kevin Smith’s Cop Out, a feature film in which he starred with Bruce Willis. The film centers around two cops given the grim tasks of locating a stolen baseball card to pay for a wedding, rescuing a kidnapped woman, and combating gangsters whose main goals are laundering money and elevating the death count in Brooklyn. In April, Morgan starred in the comedy Death at a Funeral, a remake of the 2007 British movie of the same name, which also featured Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Zoe Saldana and Danny Glover. He also had a starring role in the independent romantic comedy Nailed, opposite Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal, directed by David O. Russell.
In 2009 Morgan made his animation debut, lending his voice for producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, a combination live action/CG film. Morgan starred as Blaster, one of the highly trained secret agent guinea pigs dispatched to save the world. The film opened number one at the US box office and was celebrated by audiences worldwide. More recently, Morgan lent his voice to the animated adventure film, Rio, about a domesticated macaw that travels down to Rio De Janeiro.
Another milestone for Morgan was reached in 2009 with the release of his first book, a compilation of studied anecdotes and some of the more serious moments that shaped him and his career, entitled I Am The New Black. He also headlined the famed “New York Comedy Festival,” which featured acclaimed comedians including Bill Maher, Andy Samberg, and Patton Oswalt. Morgan rounded out his list of great comedic achievements with the premiere of his first HBO Special, “Black & Blue.”
As a stand-up comic who has headlined across the country, Morgan was first introduced to television audiences in his role as Hustle Man on Fox’s hit comedy series “Martin.” He went on to join NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” in 1996 where he appeared for seven seasons and created such memorable characters as Astronaut Jones and Brian Fellows. After leaving SNL, he went on to star in his own comedy series, NBC’s “The Tracy Morgan Show” and voice “Spoonie Luv” on Comedy Central’s “Crank Yankers.”
Additional film credits include Superhero Movie; First Sunday (in which he starred opposite Ice Cube and Katt Williams); The Longest Yard (in which he starred opposite Adam Sandler); three films for the Wayans Brothers; as well as the films Little Man, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Head of State.
JULIETTE BINOCHE — ‘BRIDGES’
Raised in a family of artists (her mother was an actress and her father a sculptor), Juliette Binoche began taking acting lessons from her mother at a very young age. After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of Godard (Hail Mary, 1984), Doillon (Family Life, 1984) and Téchiné (Rendez-vous, 1985). She met director Leos Carax in 1986 on the set of Bad Blood and became romantically involved with him. She began work on his The Lovers on the Bridge, a love story involving two vagabonds. The film was beset by problems and took three years to finish. The completion of the film marked the end of their relationship.
Binoche’s unabashed ability to portray any character, willingness to try new genres and ability to use many degrees of her own personality in performances is why she remains one of the world’s favorite actresses.
Her strong and sensual performances in the English-language films The Unbearable Likeness of Being (1987), directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, and Damage (1992),
directed by Louis Malle and starring Jeremy Irons, inspired Hollywood to take an interest in her. Affectionately called “La Binoche” by the French press, she also piqued the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park. She declined the offer, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of Blue (1993), a performance for which she won the César for Best Actress.
She shines as a romantic heroine in Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s The Horseman on the Roof (1995) and Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient (1997), for which she was awarded an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress, thirty-seven years after Simone Signoret, the first French actress to win an Academy Award®. Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Actress three years later for her performance in Lasse Hallström’s romantic comedy Chocolat, starring Johnny Depp.
In 2000, Juliette made her Broadway debut in Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.
More recently, she starred in Paris, Je T’Aime (section directed by Nobuhiro Suwa), Peter Hedges’ Dan in Real Life, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Baloon , and Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy.
Juliette Binoche is also a spokesperson for Lancome’s Rénergie skin care line.
AL PACINO — ‘DETECTIVE STANFORD’    Al Pacino is an eight-time Academy Award® nominee. After having received Best Actor nominations for And Justice for All, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and Serpico (which also earned him a Golden Globe® Award), Pacino won an Oscar® for Best Actor for his performance in Scent of a Woman (for which he also won a Golden Globe® Award). He received three Oscar® nominations as Best Supporting Actor for his roles in The Godfather, Dick Tracy and Glengarry Glen Ross. He won an Emmy® and a Golden Globe® for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in HBO’s award-winning adaptation of Angels in America. Most recently, he won a second Emmy® for his portrayal of Dr. Jack Kevorkian in You Don’t Know Jack, also for HBO.
Among Pacino’s more than forty feature film credits are Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes, Ocean’s 13, Two for the Money, The Merchant of Venice, Insomnia, Simone, The Insider, Any Given Sunday, Donnie Brasco, The Devil’s Advocate, Two Bits, Heat, City Hall, Carlito’s Way, People I Know, The Recruit, Scarface, Author! Author!, Bobby Deerfield and Scarecrow. He made his film debut in 1971 in The Panic in Needle Park. Pacino made his professional acting debut off-Broadway after studying with Herbert Berghof (and later with Lee Strasberg) at the Actor’s Studio. He has won two Tony Awards for his starring roles in “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel” and “Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie?” He is a longtime member of David Wheeler’s Experimental Theatre Company of Boston, and has appeared in numerous New York, London, and Los Angeles stage productions including,  “American Buffalo,” “Richard III,” “Julius Caesar,” “Salome,” “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” “Chinese Coffee” and “Hughie.” He directed and starred in the film Looking for Richard, a meditation on Shakespeare’s Richard III, which Pacino conceived and directed (and for which he received the Outstanding Directorial Achievement for a documentary award from the Director’s Guild of America.)
In 2007, 20th Century Fox released An Actor’s Vision, a four-DVD set including Looking for Richard and two other plays Pacino directed for the screen, Chinese Coffee and The Local Stigmatic, along with Babbleonia, an overview of Pacino’s career, his body of work and his perspectives on acting.
Pacino won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Independent Feature Project (IFP) at their 1996 Gotham Awards. In 2000, he was honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In addition, he received the Cecil B. De Mille Award by the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2001 and the American Cinematheque Award in 2005. In June of 2007, he received AFI’s highest honor for a career in film, the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.
Pacino recently directed an independent documentary based on Oscar Wilde’s Salome, entitled Wilde Salome. This mixture of documentary, fiction and improvisation is based on behind-the-scenes footage from his stage show. He is currently starring in the Broadway production of “Merchant of Venice.”
Pacino will be seen next in Sony Pictures’ Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler, which is scheduled for release in November.
RAY LIOTTA – ‘CAPTAIN MATHERS’
With a critically-acclaimed career beginning with his Golden Globe® nominated performance in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, Liotta has become one of America’s most iconic actors, and perhaps is best known for his performance as mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorcese’s Goodfellas. Liotta continued to create memorable characters in films like the Oscar® nominated Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner, James Mangold’s Copland alongside Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, and Joe Carnahan’s NARC for which he received a Spirit Award nomination for Best Acting. Other notable films include Hannibal opposite Anthony Hopkins for director Ridley Scott, Heartbreakers with Sigourney Weaver, and Blow opposite Johnny Depp. He was most recently seen in Date Night opposite Tina Fey and Steve Carell and Observe and Report opposite Seth Rogen.
A versatile actor in television as well, Liotta portrayed Frank Sinatra in the HBO movie “The Rat Pack” for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award, as well as winning an Emmy® for his guest performance in the one of the highest rated episodes of NBC’s long running series ER. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
JAMES RANSONE — ‘PRUDENTI’
James Ransone currently has a recurring role on the second season of the critically acclaimed HBO series “Treme.” He is best known for his season on the hit HBO series “The Wire” and his role in the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill.”
Feature film credits include Inside Man, Prom Night, and The Perfect Age of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Most recently, Ransone had starring roles in The Next Three Days and The Lie.
URSULA PARKER – ‘CHARLOTTE’
Ursula Parker has appeared in the feature films Rabbit Hole, Sister Spirit, The Stand Up, and We Need to Talk about Kevin, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Currently, Ms. Parker is shooting Straight A’s, where she stars opposite Anna Paquin and Ryan Phillippe. On the small screen, Ursula recurs on the critically acclaimed F/X series “Louie,” where she plays Louis C.K.’s feisty younger daughter Jane. She has also co-starred on ABC’s “Body of Proof,” and PBS’ “Sesame Street.”
In addition, Ursula is a prodigious violinist. Her favorite concert to date is the one where she was the soloist in Vivaldi’s “Violin Concerto in A Minor” with the New York Young Musician’s Orchestra for a fundraiser benefitting the Ethical Society of Long Island. Ursula also enjoys ballet, art and reading. She loves animals, especially cats.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
DITO MONTIEL – Writer/Director
Dito Montiel is an American author, screenwriter, director and musician. The son of a Nicaraguan father and Irish mother, Dito grew up in Queens New York, toured the country in a punk band as a teenager in a leaky van, modeled for Calvin Klein and Gianni Versace with Bruce Weber, and got KO’d in the Golden Gloves boxing tournament. In 2003, Montiel published A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a memoir detailing his life growing up in Astoria, Queens in the early 1980s. After adapting his best-selling book into a screenplay, Montiel made his directorial debut with the film version of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. The film stars Robert Downey Jr., Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Rosario Dawson, Shia Labeouf, and Channing Tatum. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize and the Director’s Award. It also screened at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Critics’ award and the Isvema Award. Dito’s latest film The Son of No One, which he wrote and directed based on his third book (The Story of Milk), stars Al Pacino, Channing Tatum, Katie Holmes, Tracy Morgan,
Ray Liotta and Juliette Binoche. It chronicles the life of 2 young boys growing up in Montiel’s hometown of Queens, New York with secrets and murder. It was chosen as the 2011 Sundance closing night film.
AVI LERNER – Producer
With over 250 films to his credit, Avi Lerner, co-chairman of Nu Image/Millennium Films, is one of the most experienced producers and distributors of independent film in the international motion picture industry.
Born and raised in Israel, Lerner’s career in the film business began as manager of Israel’s first drive-in cinema. He acquired a chain of movie theaters, simultaneously producing several low-budget features. He anticipated the explosion of home video rental in 1979 and pioneered the largest specialized video distribution company in Israel and became a partner in that country’s largest theatrical distribution company.
In 1984, Lerner was Executive Producer in Zimbabwe of the remake of King Solomon’s Mines and the sequel Alan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. He sold his Israeli company and relocated to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he founded the Nu Metro Entertainment Group. He went on to own and operate theaters, a video distribution division representing top studios and independent companies, and a production arm that made over 60 features in Zimbabwe and South Africa which were distributed worldwide by major studios.
Lerner’s next professional moves were to sell Nu Metro and to join MGM United Artists while still producing movies. A year later he moved to Los Angeles where he founded Nu Image with Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Danny Lerner. A string of successful films followed until Nu Image developed and maintained an enviable reputation as a producer and distributor of high quality, low budget action pictures for the international and domestic markets.
In 1996 Nu Image formed Millennium Films to address the market’s growing need for quality theatrical films and higher budget action features, while Nu Image continues to cater to the lucrative international home video market. Between the two divisions, over 230 films have been produced since 1992.
Under the Millennium label, Lerner has produced numerous titles which include Lonely Hearts, starring John Travolta; Black Dahlia, with Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansson; 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def; 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino; The Contract, with Morgan Freeman; Rambo IV, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone; Righteous Kill, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and The Expendables directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Lerner and Nu Image/Millennium Films currently develop finance, produce and distribute approximately 10 – 15 pictures a year, with budgets ranging from five to seventy million dollars, shooting in locations all over the world.
HOLLY WIERSMA – Producer
Holly Wiersma has become a prolific independent film producer over the last decade, following a stint producing made-for-television movies. Most recently, Wiersma was a producer on Stone, which starred Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, and directed by John Curran. Previously she produced The Six Wives of Henry LeFay, The Year of Getting to Know Us, Factory Girl and Bobby. Other producing credits include Bug, Lonely Hearts, Come Early Morning, The Quiet, Down in the Valley, The Tenants, Happy Endings, Wonderland and Try Seventeen. Previously, she produced the movies Comic Book Villains for video and Rent Control for television.
Wiersma began her industry career as a casting assistant or associate on several films, including Blade (extras casting assist-ant), Woo (casting assistant: Los Angeles) and Tina Gets Her Man (casting associate).
JOHN THOMPSON – Producer
John Thompson grew up in Rome where his fine body of work in the Italian film industry throughout the 1980s and 90s includes Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (two Oscar® nominations, Cannes Film Festival main competition, American Critics Award); Claude d’Anna’s Salome (Cannes main competition); Lina Wertmuller’s Camorra (four Donatello Awards, Berlin Film Festival official entry); Liliana Cavani’s Berlin Interior (Donatello Awards, Berlin Official Selection); Paul Schrader’s Comfort of Strangers (Cannes Official Selection); Ivan Passer’s Haunted Summer (Venice Film Festival Official Selection); Jerzy Skolomowski’s Torrents of Spring (Cannes Official Selection); and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Everybody’s Fine (Cannes Official Selection).
Thompson returned to Los Angeles to helm production for Avi Lerner’s Millennium Films in 1998. With Millennium, he has produced or co-produced Paul Chart’s American Perfekt (Cannes Official Selection); Susanna Styron’s Shadrach (Venice Official Selection); Rory Kelly’s Some Girl (LA Independent Film Festival winner for Best Director); Audrey Wells’ Guinevere; George Hickenlooper’s Big Brass Ring, as well as Prozac Nation, Nobody’s Baby, The Replicant, Try Seventeen, Undisputed and other successful productions.
He produced Richard Donner’s action-thriller 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis and Mos Def, Jon Avnet’s 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino; Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, adapted from James Elroy’s novel, and starring Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank and Scarlett Johansson; as well as The Wicker Man, a remake of the 70s cult classic, written and directed by Neil LaBute, starring Nicolas Cage. He worked with Sylvester Stallone producing the successful Rambo IV. Most recently, Thompson was a producer on The Expendables, Bad Lieutenant, and The Mechanic.
TREVOR SHORT – Executive Producer
Trevor Short was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He studied Law at the University of Zimbabwe and obtained an MBA degree at the University of Cape Town, where he was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit. After obtaining his law degree, Short entered the world of banking and commerce. He
headed the Corporate Finance Division at Investec Bank in Johannesburg before joining Nu Metro Entertainment as Managing Director. Following the acquisition of Nu Metro by a retailing giant, Short became Managing Director of Nu World Services, a film production company based in Johannesburg. In this capacity, Short produced films both in South Africa and outside the country.
DANNY DIMBORT – Executive Producer
Danny Dimbort began his entertainment career with the Israeli distribution company Golan-Globus Films and became Managing Director within two years. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles to join Cannon Films as head of foreign sales and then returned to Israel to produce several feature films prior to joining Cannon/Pathe back in Los Angeles, where he was in charge of distribution. He was President of International Distribution at MGM until 1991, when he formed Nu Image with Avi Lerneras partner in charge of sales and marketing.
BRIAN BELL – Line Producer
Brian Bell has worked on 24 films in various producing capacities. Most recently, he was co-producer on Young Adult and Cedar Rapids.
Previous film credits as co-producer are The Switch, Brooklyn to Manhattan, Chapter 27, Never Forever, Beautiful Ohio, Beer League, Man Push Cart, and Keane. Line producer credits include Peacock, Assassination of a High School President, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, King of the Corner, Undermind, Red Betsy, Rabbit and Personal Velocity: Three Portraits. Bell has also been a producer on Before It Had a Name and Twelve and Holding. He was associate producer on Coney Island Baby and has also frequently worked as a Production Manager.
BENOIT DELHOMME – Director of Photography
Benoit Delhomme is an award-winning French cinematographer who, following critically acclaimed work on numerous films in France, established an equally successful career working on US, British and other international productions.
Most recently he was cinematographer on Kiss, His First; One Day, which starred Anne Hathaway; and Wilde Salome, directed by and starring Al Pacino. Delhomme’s other recent films include Shanghai, Chatroom and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Among his additional films are 1408, Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering, The Proposition, Podium, The Red Knight, Adolphe, The Idol, Play, What Time Is It Over There?, Mortal Transfer, Sade, Miss Julie, With or Without You, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, The Winslow Boy, Artemesia, Family Resemblances, When the Cat’s Away, Xich lo, Circuit Carole, L’irresolu, Comment font les gens, The Scent of Green Papaya, and Loin de Brazil. He has also served as Director of Photography on numerous short films.
JAKE PUSHINSKY – Editor and Executive Producer
Jake Pushinsky reteams with writer-director Dito Montiel, following their successful collaborations on Montiel’s first two feature films, Guide to Recognizing Your Saints and Fighting. They originally met as musicians when they were each playing in a punk rock band.
Pushinksy’s other films as an editor are Howl, Columbus Day, and the documentary, Chops. He has also worked on films in other capacities, including second unit director, music editor and title designer.
SANDRA HERNANDEZ – Costume Designer
Sandra Hernandez began her illustrious career working under Academy Award® nominated Costume Designer Ruth Carter on Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee, and Amistad, directed by Steven Spielberg.
Hernandez’ first opportunity as a feature film costume designer came in 1994, designing Darnell Martin’s I Like That, which she followed up with a three-picture collaboration with Spike Lee on Girl Six, Get on the Bus and He Got Game. Using her fashion forward, urban designs, she has lent her unique style to such films as Thomas Carter’s Save the Last Dance, starring Julia Stiles; Leon Ichaso’s Pinero, starring Benjamin Bratt; El Cantante, starring Jennifer Lopez; and Spike Lee’s The 25th Hour, starring Edward Norton. Hernandez also designed Dito Montiel’s first feature film, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which received two awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Recently, Hernandez designed Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, directed by Peter Sollett, and starring Michael Cera; the award-winning The Secret Life of Bees, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, with an ensemble cast including Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys; and Lottery Ticket, directed by Erik White, and starring Ice Cube.
JONATHAN ELIAS – Music
Jonathan Elias is a renowned music industry veteran. His place in music history is firmly secured, after several Emmys®, a Grammy nomination, and many successful records.
Born in New York City in 1956, Jonathan began playing piano at the age of six, and was composing original pieces by age 12, inspired in equal parts by rock music, Broadway musicals, and the work of Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Aspiring to become a full-fledged classical composer and conductor, he entered the Eastman School of Music before attending Bennington College in Vermont in 1976. While still in school, Jonathan made his first successful foray into the industry, scoring the trailers for Alien, Blade Runner, Gandhi and Back to the Future – a portend of his successful film composition career.
In 1980, Jonathan formed Elias Associates – later to become Elias Arts. The company had several early successes that put it on the map as being at the forefront of modern advertising innovations, including the crunching theme behind MTV’s “Moon Landing,” the Columbia Pictures logo theme, and the instantly recognizable Yahoo! yodel. Today, Elias Arts is one of the world’s forefront commercial production companies. Whether working with a worldwide-recognized brand or an upstart company, Elias is renowned for its exceptional inventiveness.
The company has received literally hundreds of industry awards, and has worked for such prestigious clients as Intel, Coca-Cola, Apple, Microsoft and eBay, just to name a few.
After meeting composer John Barry in the early 1980s, Jonathan began working with him on scores for feature films such as Jagged Edge and A View To A Kill. Through his work with Barry, Elias met and began working with members of Duran Duran, making his first foray into the pop music world. Elias worked independently as well, scoring films like Children of the Corn, A Guide to Recognizing your Saints, and in more recent years, Fighting.
DAVID WITTMAN – Music
David Wittman is an award winning film and commercial composer from Berkeley, California. He grew up playing drums and DJing at a young age, and moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to attend UCLA. In 1999 he began working at Elias Arts in Santa Monica where his commercial scores earned top honors including a Cannes Lion, Clio, AICP, and First Boards award for excellence in original music. He has also been featured in SHOOT, Creativity, Boards, and Entertainment Weekly magazines. In 2006 he contributed to the score for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBoeuf) working with Jonathan Elias and director Dito Montiel. After the success of the film, they continued working together on the score for Fighting (Channing Tatum, Terrence Howard, 2009). David also recently worked with up-and-coming independent filmmaker Victoria Mahoney on Yelling to the Sky (Zoe Kravitz, Gabourey Sidibe, 2011.) He teamed up with his friend and colleague Jimmy Haun for David Arquette’s directorial debut thriller The Tripper in 2006, and most recently completed an original score for Sony Pictures Never Back Down II with Michael Jai White.
BETH MICKLE – Production Designer
Beth Mickle began her career as a production designer when she designed her first feature film Madness and Genius, directed by Ryan Eslinger, in 2002. The film’s success brought several more features including the acclaimed Half Nelson, directed by Ryan Fleck and written by Fleck and Anna Boden. Produced by Journeyman Pictures, Half Nelson won the Best Film prize at the Gotham Awards and received a Best Actor Academy Award® nomination for Ryan Gosling in 2007.
Mickle re-teamed with Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden on their sophomore film, Sugar, the story of an aspiring baseball player from the Dominican Republic, produced by Journeyman Pictures. She then designed Cold Souls, directed by Sophie Barthes, also for Journeyman. Starring Emily Watson, Paul Giamatti, and David Strathairn, Cold Souls was presented at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
In 2007 Mickle was named as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Production Designer to Watch.” She was also nominated for a BAFTA award for production design in 2010 for her work in An Englishman in New York, starring John Hurt. Her latest film, It’s Kind of a Funny Story with Zach Galifianakis is the third film by Fleck and Boden. She most recently designed Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan and directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, who won the Best Director award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Mickle is currently represented by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
TRUDIE STYLER – Executive Producer
Trudie Styler’s UK production company Xingu Films was formed in 1993, initially making documentary films for the BBC. Over the last 18 years this award-winning company has maintained this focus on social issues through its documentaries, while also building a reputation as a nurturing home for talented first-time feature filmmakers.
Styler’s producer credits with Xingu Films include the documentaries Boys from Brazil (1993) about travesti prostitutes in Brazil; Moving the Mountain (1995) directed by Michael Apted, which told the stories of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989 and won an International Documentary Association Award; the highly acclaimed but controversial documentary on the making of a Walt Disney animation The Sweatbox (2002) which Styler co-directed; and with the Cannes award-winning team of Catherine and Tareque Masud, A Kind of Childhood (2002), which follows the lives of a group of working children in Bangladesh over a period of six years. Her most recent documentary was The Lost Art of Oratory (2009), co-produced with the BBC and exploring the power of the spoken word through history from Ancient Rome to Barack Obama.
Always the champion of first-time filmmakers, Styler’s feature production credits include The Grotesque (1996) directed by John-Paul Davidson; Guy Ritchie’s first two films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) which she executive produced; Green Fingers (2001) written and directed by Joel Hershman; Cheeky (2003) by actor/writer/director David Thewlis; Alpha Male (2005) written and directed by Dan Wilde; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Directing Award for its writer/director Dito Montiel, and the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance; and the BAFTA-winning Moon (2009), written and directed by Duncan Jones.
In 2005, Styler was commissioned by Glamour magazine to direct her first short film entitled Wait, and is scheduled to direct her first full-length feature in 2012.
This year sees an exciting new venture for Styler in the United States. In partnership with Celine Rattray, Styler’s Maven Pictures has already begun filming its first movie in New York. Imogene stars Kristen Wiig (“Saturday Night Live,” Bridesmaids) alongside Annette Benning and Matt Dillon.
ALEX FRANCIS – Executive Producer
Alex Francis worked as a screenwriter, producer, director, and script editor, before taking up the position of Head of Development at Trudie Styler’s Xingu Films in 1999. During his time there, the company has made 11 feature-length films, including Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Greenfingers, and Dito Montiel’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which was his first film at Xingu as a Producer. The film won two Special Jury Awards at Sundance, Best Film at Venice International Critics Week, and was distributed worldwide in 2006.
Francis was Co-Producer on the science-fiction film Moon, directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell, which premiered at Sundance in 2009, where it was picked up by Sony Pictures. Moon went on to win Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards, as well as winning a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by director Duncan Jones. Current producing projects for Alex include American Reaper, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Pat Mills and Clint Langley (of “Judge Dredd” and “Marshall Law” fame), The Outlander, an adaptation of the celebrated Western novel by Gil Adamson, and The Harder They Come, a modern day reworking of Perry Henzell’s 1974 Jamaican classic, which introduced reggae to the world.
Cast and Crew
Unit Production Manager
BRIAN BELL
First Assistant Director
URS HIRSCHBIEGEL
Second Assistant Director
BRIAN KENYON
In association with HANNIBAL, INC.
Cast
Detective Charles Stanford
AL PACINO
Jonathan “Milk” White
CHANNING TATUM
Officer Thomas Prudenti
JAMES RANSONE
Captain Marion Mathers
RAY LIOTTA
Kerry White
KATIE HOLMES
Charolette “Charlie” White
URSULA PARKER
Young Vinny (Carter)
BRIAN GILBERT
Vincent Carter (Adult)
TRACY MORGAN
Jonathan “Milk” White (Young)
JAKE CHERRY
Young Vicky
SIMONE JONES
Loren Bridges
JULIETTE BINOCHE
Geronimo
LEMON ANDERSON
Hanky
ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH
Dominican Nada Puerto Rican
MICHAEL RIVERA
Martinez
SEAN CREGAN
Olive Oil
KAREN CHRISTIE WARD
Dispatcher Numnuts
PETER TAMBAKIS
Grandma White
MARILYN DOBRIN
Adult Vicky
DECORTE SNIPES
Other Cop
CRAIG WALKER
Vinny’s Mother
JOHNNIE MAE
Vinny’s Mother’s Boyfriend
OBERON K.A. ADJEPONG
Kid #1
MALIK CHERRY
Kid #2
TEVON FLEMMING
Hector J. Uhuyes
TONY VASQUEZ
News Reporter #1
PAT KIERNAN
News Reporter #2
GISELLA MARANGO
Sientate Rodriguez
RALPH RODRIGUEZ
Grandpa
GEORGE JAMES
Officer Pregnant Bitch
PAUL “THE REVEREND” POPLAWSKI
News Reporter Walnum (Voice)
MICHELLE WALNUM
Top Floor Aisha
IESHA RICHARDSON
Vomit Bum
DITO MONTIEL
Stunt Coordinator
DOUG CROSBY
Stunt Coordinator/Stunt Driver
JARED BURKE
Stunt Driver
PETER DAMATO
Mr. Liotta’s Stunt Double
CHRIS CENATIEMPO
Mr. Morgan’s Stunt Double
DERRICK SIMMONS
Stunt Utilities
ROCCO FORGIONE
JENNIFER WEISEENBERG
KENNY FLORIAN
BRYCE BURKE
Co-Executive Producers
JOY GORMAN
LONNIE RAMATI
Production Supervisor
KATIE MUSTARD
Second Second Assistant Director
ARIANNE APICELLI
“A” Camera Operator
TIMOTHY NAYLOR
“A” Camera First Assistant
SARAH L. HENDRICK
“A” Camera Second Assistant
RANDY SCHWARTZ
“B” Camera Operator
CHRIS LAVASSEUR
“B” Camera First Assistant
LINDA SLATER
“B” Camera Second Assistant
DAVID REGAN
Loader
KATHRYN WAALKES
Steadicam Operator
GEORGE BIANCHINI
Video Assistant
ANDREW R.H. LANG
Video Playback Operator
IGOR SRUBSHCHIK
Still Photographer
PHILIP V. CARUSO
Gaffer
BILL NEWELL
Best Boy Electric
JOHN COOTS
Electricians
FRANK STUBBLEFIELD
LARA SFIRE
YOSHI SONADA
Generator Operator
RYAN WEBB
Rigging Gaffer
GAVIN CURRAN
Rigging Best Boy Electric
MICHAEL GREEN
Rigging Electric
BRETT MCDERMOTT
Key Grip
DAVE STERN
Best Boy Grip
TAYLOR DRAKE
Dolly Grip
FRANCIS LEACH
“B” Dolly Grip
TIM FERRAER
Key Rigging Grip
STEVE LYNCH
Rigging Best Boy Grip
RICHARD SUFFERN
Grips
LIZ CAMPBELL
NICK HAINES-STILES
MICHAEL KIRSCH
DANIEL KIRSCH
ROBERT MARKUS
Sound Mixer
BRYAN DEMBINSKY
Boom Operators
AMANDA JACQUES
TOM JORDAN
Script Supervisor
JEAN-PAUL CHREKY
Art Director
MICHAEL AHERN
Art Department Coordinator
RACHEL JONES
Graphic Designer
ROBERT LUDEMANN
Title Design
JAKE PUSHINSKY
Set Decorator
CARRIE STEWART
Leadman
MIKE LEATHER
Foreman
EUGENE MELVIN
On-Set Dressers
MAIA DANIELLE ROSE
Set Dressers
JOHN RAFFAELE
DAN NERODA
Additional Set Dressers
GARY SOMMERS
MIKE BOUCHER
ZACK SELTER
Buyer
LISA NILSSON
Property Master
DAN FISHER
Assistant Property Master
ALEXIS WEISS
Assistant Costume Designer
NINA SCHELICH
Wardrobe Supervisor
LAURA STEINMAN
Key Set Costumer
PETER WHITE
Costumer
ANGIELETTE SMITH
Tailor
COLLEEN MORRIS
Wardrobe Production Assistant
COLLEEN EHRLICH
Make-up Department Head
SHARON ILSON BURKE
Key Make-up Artists
LESLIE FULLER
KYMBRA CALLAGHAN
Mr. Pacino‘s Make-up Artist
MICHAEL LAUDATI
Hair Department Head
FABIAN GARCIA
Key Hair Stylist
JOHNNY MARUYAMA MOOI
Mr. Pacino’s Hair Stylist
ROSE CHATTERTON
Mr. Morgan’s Hair Stylist
DUANE MOODY
Construction Coordinator
RICH HEBRANK
Key Construction Foreman
PETER BUNDRICK
Key Construction Grip
MICHAEL MILLER
Charge Scenic
EMILY GAUNT
Scenic Artists
MARY-BETH KUHN
WILLIAM GROOM
Camera Scenic
MICHELLE MAYAS
Special Effects Coordinator
DREW JIRITANO
Special Effects Foreman
ANDREW MORTELLITI
Location Manager
RONNIE KUPFERWASSER
Assistant Location Manager
DAN TRESCA
Second Assistant Location Manager
MEGAN FOERSTER
Location Scout
TRISH GRAY
Location Assistant
PETER PYUN
Location Assistant
ROB APUZZO
Unit Production Assistant
ETHAN CARLSON
Parking Coordinator
MAURICE CABRARE
Parking Production Assistant
RAFAEL DIAZ
Transportation Captain
THOMAS LEAVEY
Transportation Co-Captain
BOBBY COLLINS
Drivers
EDWARD RILLO
JOHN HUNT
GEORGE ROTH
CARL HETTLING
HENRY BOYLE
PADDY HOGAN
JAMES COLLINS
JOSEPH FARINA
MATT CONKLIN
JOHN BRADY
MATT CONNORS
Helicopter Pilot
AL CERULLO
D.O.T. Compliance Coordinator
JULIA AIN-KRUPA
Production Business & Legal Affairs
LONNIE RAMATI
Assistant to Mr. Lerner
ALEXANDRE COSCAS
Assistant to Mr. Davidson
JOAN MAO
Assistant to Mr. Thompson
BORYANA ALEXANDROVA
Assistant to Ms. Weirsma
BRANDON PARK
Assistants to Mr. Montiel
V. HUGHES
MICHELLE WALNUM
Assistant to Mr. Pacino
MARY VIVIANO
Assistant to Ms. Holmes
MOLLY IRWINE
Production Supervisor (Queens)
DEBORAH DEVRIES
Production Coordinator
RICHARD P. KEESHAN
Assistant Production Coordinator
RYAN MCDONALD
Production Secretary
MELISSA FINELL
Office Production Assistants
RAY PARADA
JOE L. SALTERS
Set Production Assistants
SCOTT BOWERS
ANGELA CUTRONE
MIKE REIERSEN
PAUL KAHIL
KYLE CAMPBELL
LIZ ADAMS
Set Production Assistants (Queensbridge)
BRYANT DONAHUE
CLIFFORD JOSEY, JR.
ALANENA WALKER
PETER ROZARIO
MARIA CONQUEST
Production Assistants
JESSIE KATZ
BRIDGET RAFFERTY
Production Interns
EVA HANNON
ELINOR LEE
ARIEL MEADE
ENIOLA DAWODU
ANDREW HAYNES
CORY FLIEHS
CAITLIN SAUNDERS
CHRISTOPHER BROWN
NORA TENNESSEN
ANDREA FINLAYSON
ASSIA LAHKLIF
JODI INNERFIELD
ANDREA GORKOVSKY
AHANNA LEE
MICHELLE JEFFERSON
Unit Publicist
BOB LEVINE
EPK Creator
PRIMALUX VIDEO
Product Placement Coordinator
KAREN NEASI
Product Placement Assistant
LAUREN COZZENS
Clearance Coordinator
ASHLEY KRAVITZ
Production Controller
ALAN LAM
Production Accountant
KATHI SCHARER
First Assistant Accountant
J. MAX RUSCHAK
Second Assistant Accountant
STEPHANIE WU
Payroll Accountant
GREG WYRICK
Payroll Clerk
BRADFORD EAVES
Casting Associate
ALLISON ESTRIN
Casting Assistant
MICHAEL FREDLUND
Extras Casting
KAREN ETCOFF
Extras Casting Assistant
BILL TRIPICIAN
Catering
GREG LIMONIDES
Craft Services
EVA VEDOCK
WILL SEPULVEDA
Set Medic
DAVID CUGNO
Studio Teacher
MELODIE COURTNEY
Security
GERARD FARINON
Post Production
First Assistant Editor
ANTHONY SMEDILE
Assistant Editor, New York
MYRON TOOKES
Post Production Supervisor
SARAH R. PARKER
Post Production Coordinator
BRIAN HAYASHI
Post Production Accountant
TSILA ADLER
Post Sound Services Provided by
C5, INC.
Supervising Sound Editor
PAUL HSU
Assistant Sound Editor
CLEMENCE STOLOFF
Dialogue Editor
BRANKA MRKIC-TANA
ADR Editor
MARISSA LITTLEFIELD
Foley Editor
JAMIE BAKER
Foley Mixer
GEORGE LARA
Foley Artist
MARKO COSTANZO
Studio Manager
SHERRELL HODGES
Score Produced and Mixed by
DAVID WITTMAN
JONATHAN ELIAS
Score Orchestrator
MICHAEL FRAUMENI
Music Supervisor
SELENA ARIZANOVIC
Additional Music
JIMMY HAUN
Visual Effects by
IDENTITY FX, INC.
Supervising Visual Effects Producer
DAVID SCOTT VAN WOERT
Visual Effects Supervisor
LEO VEZZALI
Visual Effects Producer
ALISON SAVITCH
Visual Effects Producer, Budapest
ROBERT LOVY
Visual Effects Supervisor, Budapest
PETER BERKY
Visual Effects Coordinator
ANREA GROSZ
Lead Compositor
DENES MOLNAR
Digital Compositors
ANDOR ZAHONYI
MIKLOS POLGAR
PENCY KINNARD
ZAK MARX
Graphic Design
ATTILA CSEPY
OTTO SZENTGYORGYI
Digital Intermediate Service Provided by
DELUXE NEW YORK & NEXT ELEMENT BY DELUXE
Digital Intermediate Producer
DARRELL R. SMITH
Digital Intermediate Colorist
JULIUS FRIEDE
Digital Intermediate Online Editor
JONATHAN SANDEN
Scanning Manager
MARKUS JANNER
Scanning Operator/ Digital Clean-up Artist
MARIKA LITZ
Digital Clean-up Artists
MOLLE DEBARTOLO
For MILLENNIUM FILMS
President of International Sales & Distribution
CHRISTIAN MERCURI
Executive in Charge of Post Production
TODD GILBERT
Business & Legal Affairs
RICK EYLER
Executive in Charge of Marketing & Publicity
ERIC GREEN
Human Resources
BRADLEY WEISS
Nu Image, Inc. Accounting
CHRISTINE J. FORGO
TINA ROSEN
DEVON BOYD
JULIE WEISEL
JODIE KUHUSKI MERCURI
ASHLEY LEARY
RAY TAMAYO
ANNIE DOMINGO
IMELDA SANTIAGO
PATRICIA STANLEY
GUSTAVO SANTANA
Production Financing Provided by
COMERICA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP – ADAM J. KORN AND ANDREW C. ROBINSON
Completion Bond by
FILM FINANCES, INC.
MATT WARREN
Insurance Services
CLAUDE H. FOREST
MULTIMEDIARISK.COM
Additional Legal Services Provided by
DAVID ALBERT PIERCE, ESQ
ANTHONY J. HANNA, ESQ.
PIERCE LAW GROUP LLP
Travel
AVIVA SHARON
NEW ACT TRAVEL
Lighting Equipment Provided by
K/A/S LIGHTING
Fisher Dollies Provided by
CAMERA SERVICE CENTER
Camera Cranes, Dollies, Remote and Stabilized Camera Systems by
MAJESTIC LIGHTING
Camera Car by
ACTION CAMERA CARS, INC.
Remote Cranes and Heads Provided by
MOVIE MOBILE, INC.
Transportation Equipment Provided by
HADDAD’S
Filmed in part at
K/A/S STUDIOS
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The NYPD And City of New York Parks and Recreation logos and insignia are trademarks of the City of New York and are used with the City’s permission.
Use of the New York Post courtesy of NYP Holdings, Inc.
Special Thanks
DAMON GORDON
DEVORAH HERBERT
GRAHAM TAYLOR
MIKE SPERA
RAYMOND AND RITA FRAZIER NORDMANDEAU
THE STUART FAMILY
MIKE’S DINER
THE PEOPLE OF ASTORIA, NEW YORK
RETIRED OFFICER VINCENT LOTITO FROM THE 114
KIM BAKER OF TRVL CORP.
SLIMEWATER GREEN
DELUXE TORONTO
PARACHUTE
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
SONIC MAGIC STUDIOS
AUSTIN SOUNDMINE
ADAM BREEDEN
MARY RUSSELL
THE 114 PRECINCT IN ASTORIA, NEW YORK
KATHY KATZ
TED PUSHINSKY
BRADFORD YOUNG
JOE ANDERSON
CHRISTIANNE HEDTKE
AKIRA
ALL OF MY OLD FRIENDS AT THE RAVENSWOOD AND QUEENSBRIDGE PROJECTS IN QUEENS, NEW YORK
JAE NASDAQ
THOUGHT EQUITY MOTION
MY GOOD FRIEND CRAIG KESTEL
JAMIE PHILLIPS
CHINESE JAMES
KIM JAIME
TINA REYES
DAMIEN CHOCK
OLIVER PEOPLES
I.S. 296 HALSEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
For CHARLIE ROSABELLE
Song
“MY MARIA”
Written by Louis C. Stevenson, Daniel Joseph Moore
Performed by B W Stevenson
Published by Universal Music Publishing Group (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc. by arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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