Movies Til Dawn

A tour round a process trailer with Cameron Gorman.

A clip from the shooting on Day 21, Friday August 15th, out in the dark, desolate depths of Long Island. The section of the prison we were located in had not seen any inmates for 15 years, but if you were to slink down certain corridors, one could see the brief flash of a bone fide orange jumpsuit, hear the macho banter and as a result resolve to tread no further...

From the day of shooting at our fictional "Dalegrove". De Felitta takes a moment before filming to begins, to ready himself for what are some of the most emotionally supressed scenes of the film. Andy Garcia's character Vince Rizzo, runs in to his illegitimate and forgotten son: Tony Nardella (Steven Strait) whilst doing the roll call.

Bang! And we are back at Orchard Beach on a blistering hot day. Picking up some left over driving shots, which means for Raymond and his first team, being clipped on to a process trailer, literally shackled to a machine. The Ford Galaxy is having one of it's last outings, along with Steven Strait. Steven has been a 'tour de force' on the set of "City Island", and as well as bringing his charm and skill, Strait also brought his lovely (and supremely talented) actress wife Lynn Collins (Collins plays opposite Andy Garcia in the movie-within-a-movie scene). Subscribe in a reader

Click here for a look at a nice features piece on our movie, "City Island". The New York Daily News came out to set on one of our last days in City Island proper and interviewed both me and Andy for this piece. I'm off to try to get a seat to "Gypsy", for my money one of the three best musicals ever written. ("Guys and Dolls" and "Carousel" being the others). Arthur Laurents, who wrote the original book, directed this revival at the age of ninety. Clearly a good role model for both directing longevity as well as plain old living of life longevity. Below is Patti LuPone from the Tony Awards singing "Everything's Coming Up Roses". I much prefer posting this than anything from the execrable 1960 movie version starring Rosalind Russell. Come to think of it, the above mentioned shows were all made into mediocre movies--Mankiwicz's "Guys and Dolls" is almot as boring as "Cleopatra" and "Carousel" is p...

Thanks for such a powerful response pro-posting clips. The result is that the folks who didn't like me posting the clips have come around somewhat and now feel that so long as I don't post anything to lengthy or any cut sequences it's okay to resume the clips. I thank them for being forward thinking and hope that the pieces that I post are elucidating and silly at the same time. A few directorial aphorisms: "The first thing to go is the legs". This from the late Sydney Pollack. It happened to me this week. Standing is, for the most part, no longer an option beyond a few minutes. I'm lying down as I write this. "Just tell Raymond not to work too hard." This from Robert Altman who, before I ever met him told this to Peter Gallagher. I asked Peter, who was having dinner with my director hero, to ask him for any advice for me on my first movie. The above was his response. He later told me himself to listen to everyone's suggestions and use the good...

As a week of variety and multiple locations draws to an end Raymond keeps it together and perfects his pointy directorial finger. We have had everything from Strippers to correctional officers and a shoot out in Washington Heights. Next week awaits with promises of Alan Arkin and threats of Steven's final day. A reminder for you Sir Raymond: Barber's appointment, tomorrow morning, 11am. Be there or be unkempt. Subscribe in a reader