Best Male LeadRonald Bronstein"Daddy Longlegs"Beginner's luck? Ronald Bronstein is an award-winning writer-director of indie films. But in writer-directors Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie's film "Daddy Longlegs," he makes his film acting debut. Here he plays Lenny, a divorced father of two young boys who has little grasp on parental responsibility and skill, and even less good judgment.When we first meet Lenny, he pompously mouths off to the school principal in a juvenile defense of his two boys. That scene sets our teeth on edge for what's to come. Lenny takes his sons on vacation with a woman he first met at a bar the night before. He brings the kids to his job as a projectionist, then lets them run wild and even operate the projector—badly. Told he can't bring them again, he gives them a wee dose of sedatives that sends them into Stage 4 sleep for days on end.
- 1/20/2011
- backstage.com
Ever since college, Dan Schrecker has helped animate Darren Aronofsky's visions.
Without Dan Schrecker, Natalie Portman would have never become the black swan. And Darren Aronofsky would have never become a director.
"I would certainly not be in film," Aronofsky jokes as he grasps for an alternate ending. "I probably would have started Facebook."
It's typical to see career-long pairings of director and actors (Scorsese and De Niro), or directors and producers (the Coen Brothers). It's more rare to see a director cling to his effects man, as Aronofsky does with Schrecker (left), his friend since college who has done graphics, effects, title design, or post-production work on all of Aronofsky's films--Pi (which was filmed at Schrecker's mother's Upper West Side apartment), Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and now, Black Swan, which opens nationwide Dec. 22, and has been nominated for both Golden Globe and SAG awards.
Without Dan Schrecker, Natalie Portman would have never become the black swan. And Darren Aronofsky would have never become a director.
"I would certainly not be in film," Aronofsky jokes as he grasps for an alternate ending. "I probably would have started Facebook."
It's typical to see career-long pairings of director and actors (Scorsese and De Niro), or directors and producers (the Coen Brothers). It's more rare to see a director cling to his effects man, as Aronofsky does with Schrecker (left), his friend since college who has done graphics, effects, title design, or post-production work on all of Aronofsky's films--Pi (which was filmed at Schrecker's mother's Upper West Side apartment), Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and now, Black Swan, which opens nationwide Dec. 22, and has been nominated for both Golden Globe and SAG awards.
- 12/17/2010
- by Susan Karlin
- Fast Company
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