City Island

From our day at the strip club, Staten Island, New York, courtesy of the ever effervescent Phil Caruso, God of Stills. The authoritative looking tall guy, pointing and giving direction, is our excellent cinematographer Vanja Cernjul. The guy to the left who appears to be asleep on his feet is me...

Above is an image from "The Longest Night"--an evening where we shot the entire climax of the movie (eleven pagesof script) using three cameras and going from 6PM to 6AM, or whenever the sky began to turn blue with the rising sun...

Enjoy the first of many behind the scenes production stills I'll be posting in the weeks leading up to the release of "City Island" (3/19/10). Click to enlarge.Re: the trailer. I think we'll be ready to put it up on our various sites (movie website, facebook and of course this blog) in twoweeks...

I blogged all last week, but my dog at my posts. I posted. Only I didn't hit "publish".I hit delete by accident?It depends on what your definition of "is" is.Seriously sorry for the disappearing act...

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 I...sland 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...