City Island

Location work on "The Good Wife" (which I'm observing the production of) negates the possibility of regular blogging, so forgive my spotty comings and goings. Okay, you got a better excuse...

Tonight we're showing "City Island" at a special invitation only screening hosted by the Tribeca Film Festival for SAP, the major business software company. I understand that I'll be joined by Emily Mortimer and Ezra Miller, as well as by my producer Lauren Versel.Do you know Ezra MIler...

My week (or the week according to this blog) now begins on Tuesdays. It's an Obama thing. Don't ask what that means. I don't know.Still "shadowing" on "The Good Wife", though the shoot doesn't begin until Thursday. Much driving around strange byways of Queens and Long Island searching for locations...

Thanks to all for the many comments and for the enthusiastic initial response to the blogathonging. The daily entries, though shorter then my previous verbose digressions, will continue apace. Although I'm tempted to take the weekend off...

Good morning.Yesterday, we had a terrific meeting with the Anchor Bay people--the folks releasing our movie--on everything to dowith their marketing plan. Poster, trailer, timeline for private screenings, long lead press, online presence etc...

Reminder: "City Island" is your movie. Help us get the word out. Forward the posts to your friends and enemies alike. Comment on our Facebook page (I'll check in on that every day as well). And don't forget the ever-delightful, still confounding Twitter stream...

Tired of my stale postings staying up for a week or more at a time? Exhausted by my carping and complaining about glammyfestivals that didn't treat me like royalty? Wondering if this whole damn blog is simply an excercise in meta-fiction, with me being the ultimate unreliable narrator...

Forget the fact that none of us were invited to Korea for the 14th Annual Pusan International Film Festival for what I assume must be the Korean Premiere of "City Island"; I didn't even know there was such a festival...

Well, before I could say "If it's Tuesday it must be Belgium", the invaluble JC has managed to locate press and photos of our trip to Ghent that are so recent, they seem to have been pubiished before having actually occurred...

Sorry for the serious lag in updates, posts, entries, what have you. I've been on a major writing roll with my new screenplay and have, literally, been too wrung out from writing every day to post. I took today off so here I am. Plus which I have a story which may amuse some of you...

I wish I hadn't eaten that hat.The Festival du Cinema a la Rio, or whatever the hell they're called, blew us off. Not the movie--they're showing that. But it appears that my presence and (Steven Strait's) wasn't quite ringing the same bell for them that Andy Garcia's was...

Just moments ago I posted a confused blast of impatience directed toward the Festival in Rio that will be showing "City Island"...

This is getting weird. A month or two ago I was told that we were part of the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival. They wanted to bring me, Andy Garcia, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer, Julianna Margulies and my producers Lauren Versel and Zachary Matz...

Dig the above photo--a lovely grouping capturing literally ALL of us who attended at Deauville. The handsome little boy is my son, Lorenzo De Felitta. The beautiful little girl belongs to our executive producer Militun Gatsby...