Category Archives: May Prelude

May Prelude: ‘God’s Pocket’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1WaXhUhjnM

Producers: Lance Acord, Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Sam Bisbee, Philip Seymour Hoffman , John Slattery, Emily Ziff (“Jack Goes Boating”)

Director: John Slattery

Screenwriter(s): Alex Metcalf, John Slattery

Based on: ‘God’s Pocket’, a novel by Peter Dexter

Cinematographer: Lance Acord (“Where the Wild Things Are”, “Marie Antoinette”, “Lost in Translation”, “Being John Malkovich”)

Composer: Nathan Larson (“Margin Call”, “Boys Don’t Cry”, “The Woodsman”)

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, John Turturro, Calev Landry Jones, Glenn Fleshler, Richard Jenkins, Eddie Marsan

Interviews:

Director John Slattery (“Mad Men”) talks about the challenges of being a new director and advice given to him by his peers about the filmmaking process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZtp0HrANb4

Christina Hendricks, John Slattery, and the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman talk about the script, shooting ‘God’s Pocket’, and being scared of each other on set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwFtJ9s5X5E

In this interview, they talk more in-depth about the story, small towns, their characters, and about John Slattery as a director.

ReviewAll is not what it seems in ‘God’s Pocket’

May Prelude: ‘Chef’

Producers: Sergei Bespalov (“Machete Kills”), Jon Favreau, Karen Gilchrist

Director: Jon Favreau (“Elf”, “Iron Man”, “Iron Man 2”, “Cowboys & Aliens”)

Screenwriter(s): Jon Favreau (“Swingers”, “Couples Retreat”)

Cinematographer: Kramer Morgenthau (“Fracture”, “Thor: The Dark World”, “The Express”)

Cast: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofia Vergara, Amy Sedaris, Robert Downey Jr., Russell Peters

Clips:

Carl’s (Jon Favreau) friends urge him not to send a harsh critic a response to his review on Twitter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfX4ckJB14

Interviews:

Roy Choi, a chef in LA who owns a gourmet Korean taco truck, “Kogi”, talks about being introduced to the film industry and how he felt about Jon Favreau making a film about his specific craft.

Jon Favreau talks about filming, food, and friendships developed on the set of “Chef”.

Review: COMING SOON!