editorlisa
Hi! I'm Lisa. I work in TV and film as writer, producer & editor. This is my blog about the work I do and the news, trends and technologies that touch it. With the occasional totally unrelated bits thrown in.
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FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MATT STERLING
- Matt used to do stand up comedy
- Matt was my (Steve Taylor’s) first intern at Squint...
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Commercial I did for Sundance / L’Oréal a couple months ago.
Notes: I mentioned the twitter name plate necklace to pimp out BaubleBar but they...
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The fact that this is the most media attention I’ve seen Julia Allison get in the last two years notwithstanding, I think the question of what you...
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A Response to Julia Allison's Op-Ed Addressed To Women Moving To NYC, From A Woman Who Once Moved To NYC
[Warning: TLDR]
Tonight on Twitter I...
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One of most amusing things about shooting a movie in California is the requirement to have someone on set who, every half hour, writes down that...
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Heading to SXSW? If you checked the weather you know its going to be rainy. What better timing than now to spice up your rain boots! Check out my...
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This seems like the ideal use of the Tumblr photoset feature.
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“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
JK Rowling, Harvard University Commencement Address, 2008
THE INCREASINGLY POOR DECISIONS OF TODD MARGARET premieres tonight on IFC. Got a sneak peek of the first episode yesterday and it’s definitely promising. One of the benefits of a comedy series on an unrated cable network: a lot of fucking cursing. David Cross & Will Arnett are dirty, dirty boys.
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Now I’ve been here for eleven years and have spent more time as an adult here than anywhere else. I feel at home here and if I had to move it would have to be to somewhere similar—a non-car-town where everything is walkable or doable within public transport constraints; restaurants and bars don’t close at ten; you can always get a great coffee or espresso; most people read; and you can find great art nearby. Which leaves me with… Europe.
Which is not entirely unpalatable. But I do love New York. There’s really nowhere else like it in the U.S.
”Elizabeth Spiers, “Gawker, Denton, New York, etc.”
Eight years for me, but otherwise, yes. Exactly.
Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino’s editor on all his films, was found dead this morning in Griffith Park, where she’d taken her dog yesterday for a walk in the intense Los Angeles heat. Her first film was TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, but she hooked up with Tarantino for RESERVOIR DOGS, and he never worked with anyone else. Above is a video of cast members of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, at the end of particular takes or flubbed lines, saying, “Hi, Sally!” a message to Menke back in the editing room. She was 56 years old.
Bye, Sally. :(
cajunboy: Colbert’s hilarious opening statement from his Congressional testimony today.
My favorite part, also called out by leitch:
“…this is America. I don’t want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.”
“I’m tired of cable news. It’s like watching 4 year olds play soccer.”
Jim Gaffigan
It’s not too late to save LONE STAR, people! (Though the same cannot be said for David Keith’s face.)
Lowbrow. Brilliant. BTW, I also see a bit of:
Something like 20,000 years ago, a rock slide sealed up the entrance to a large cave set into a limestone cliff above the Ardèche River in southern France. No human being entered it again until 1994, when a trio of explorers wedged themselves through a tiny aperture and made one of the most extraordinary discoveries of cultural history: Chambers upon chambers of spectacular prehistoric art, both figurative and abstract, including images of many extinct species of Ice Age animals. You and I will never see any of this, except with the help of Werner Herzog’s strange, flawed and mesmerizing 3-D film CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night.
Let me go over that again briefly: Yes, Werner Herzog has made a movie in 3-D that’s largely set inside a cave full of Stone Age art. His producer, Erik Nelson — who is a friend and an occasional Salon contributor — says that Herzog is the first director of the new 3-D wave to use the technology for good, not for evil. Secondly, yes, the art is beautiful, even stunningly accomplished, and these images are breathtaking — unlike anything you’ve seen before or will see again. And thirdly, yes, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS will become a classic drug movie almost immediately, although the experience is mind-altering enough without any augmentation.
What’s now known as the Chauvet Cave (after Jean-Marie Chauvet, leader of the exploring party) was promptly seized and sealed by the French government; more people have visited the summit of Everest since 1994 than have seen the interior of the cave. Much of the struggle for Herzog and Nelson was getting in there in the first place. Beyond the 400 or so Paleolithic cave paintings in pristine condition, and the important artifacts and fossils (cave-bear skulls! cave-bear scratches!), Chauvet has far-reaching implications for the study of cultural prehistory and the birth of human consciousness. These paintings are roughly twice as old as any other known examples of pictorial art. (The earliest of them may go back 33,000 years.) They’re as close as we can come, at least for now, to the dawn of art.
— Salon
Leave it to Werner Herzog.
IFC Films announced their acquisition of CAVE today. Coming to a (small indie) theater near you and VOD hopefully soon.
Free coffee on Sundance Channel today. Stop by the GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO LIKE BOYS mobile café from 1:30 - 3:00 across from Penn Station (7th & 31st).
I watch a lot of TV, but not many sitcoms. The list pretty much consisted of 30 ROCK, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, and this show, MY BOYS. Which TBS canceled today, one day after ordering 90 — yes, nine zero — episodes of something much less original.
I work in this industry, but sometimes I just don’t get it.
Will.i.am + Sesame Street + original song = A video you’ll watch ten times today.
The Millennials are obviously a lost cause, but I’m feeling pretty confident about whatever our current generation of four-year-olds is.
Cuteness and coolness. Hard to pull off for most humans, not to mention muppets.
Launch promo for CARLOS, the 3-part miniseries premiering on Sundance Channel in October.
“Nothing I’ve encountered on any size screen matches the lucidity of this fact-based fiction—it amounts to a textbook on state-sponsored terrorism—and nothing I’ve seen in recent years has held my attention so relentlessly.”
Joe Morgenstern in The Wall Street Journal on CARLOS
“People tell you who they are, but we ignore it. Because we want them to be who we want them to be.”
Don Draper
