Becoming a producer Sarah Schechter love baseball again. Today the powerhouse behind a record-breaking 17 current television series, Schechter found her way in the business making movies.
“When I first started working in film, what became so nice about watching sports was you didn’t know what was going to happen,” she says. “When you’re reading so many scripts, you start to feel like you know what’s going to happen in each one. Then you work on projects where you read the script over and over again, and you don’t have surprises. So I kind of fell back in love with baseball, particularly, because it was like, “Oh, I don’t know what’s gonna happen here. There’s no script to read. You’re going to have to wait till the end.’”
Schechter doesn’t just work in film anymore. The chairman of Berlanti Prods., she’s...
“When I first started working in film, what became so nice about watching sports was you didn’t know what was going to happen,” she says. “When you’re reading so many scripts, you start to feel like you know what’s going to happen in each one. Then you work on projects where you read the script over and over again, and you don’t have surprises. So I kind of fell back in love with baseball, particularly, because it was like, “Oh, I don’t know what’s gonna happen here. There’s no script to read. You’re going to have to wait till the end.’”
Schechter doesn’t just work in film anymore. The chairman of Berlanti Prods., she’s...
- 10/30/2020
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Danny Schechter, an unabashed advocacy journalist and media critic who moved in and out of mainstream television and wore his legend as “Danny Schechter, the News Dissector” like an escutcheon, died on March 19 of pancreatic cancer in Manhattan, the New York Times reports. The phrase dated from his early work in the 1970s as a pundit on Wbcn, a Boston prog-rock radio station where his sign-off was, “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.” Schechter…...
- 3/24/2015
- Deadline TV
"What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary?" asks Mike Everleth, pointing us to a multi-part special program happening tonight in Brooklyn and co-presented by UnionDocs and Cinebeasts. Following "a smattering of classic campaign commercials, ranging from the Eisenhower days to the wealth of populist YouTube-targeted spots from this year's midterms" (so reads the program; see ten of the wackiest from this year's go-round here) and Brian Springer's 1995 documentary Spin (Video Data Bank: "Pirated satellite feeds revealing Us media personalities' contempt for their viewers come full circle"), there'll be a panel discussion featuring David Bushman, curator-in-chief of the Paley Center for Media, "News Dissector" Danny Schechter and playwright and screenwriter Beau Willimon, whose play Farragut North is currently being adapted as The Ides of March, with George Clooney directing Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood...
- 11/2/2010
- MUBI
Nov 2
6:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Cinebeasts
What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary? That is, what better way after you’ve actually gone out and voted. You’re going to vote, right? You better!
Plus, after tonight’s screenings, David Bushman of the Paley Center for Media and investigative reporter Danny Schechter will lead a panel discussion on the “evolution of political media language.”
As for the screenings, it seems that every year politician TV ads get more and more mean-spirited and deceptive. But, is that really the case?
UnionDocs and Cinebeasts have collected a treasure trove of classic campaign ads that reach all the way back to Eisenhower. Some of the better well-known ads that will screen are ’70s Coke commercials that featured Richard Nixon as a punchline and Ronald Reagan’s famous — or infamous,...
6:30 p.m.
UnionDocs
322 Union Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Hosted by: Cinebeasts
What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary? That is, what better way after you’ve actually gone out and voted. You’re going to vote, right? You better!
Plus, after tonight’s screenings, David Bushman of the Paley Center for Media and investigative reporter Danny Schechter will lead a panel discussion on the “evolution of political media language.”
As for the screenings, it seems that every year politician TV ads get more and more mean-spirited and deceptive. But, is that really the case?
UnionDocs and Cinebeasts have collected a treasure trove of classic campaign ads that reach all the way back to Eisenhower. Some of the better well-known ads that will screen are ’70s Coke commercials that featured Richard Nixon as a punchline and Ronald Reagan’s famous — or infamous,...
- 10/28/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
DVD Playhouse—April 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
- 4/16/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time, at its heart, is a film championing the little guy — the wronged, screwed-over, little guy. It knows no neutrality, blatantly decrying the misdeeds of the wealthy (at least the dishonest wealthy, but come on — is there really any other kind?) and standing up for the people cheated by these misdeeds.
Plunder, Danny "the News Dissector" Schechter's look into how closely Wall Street influenced — even caused — the financial crisis in which we're living today, focuses on those at fault, and the reactions of the citizens most directly affected by the so-called "Second Depression." Schechter conducts interview after interview with economic analysts and experts, as well as journalists, and even Sam Antar, the former Cpa of Crazy Eddie, Inc. and a convicted white-collar criminal, who dishes the dirt on his colleagues. Protesters, usually homeowners who took the brunt of the injustice, were filmed swarming the offenders...
Plunder, Danny "the News Dissector" Schechter's look into how closely Wall Street influenced — even caused — the financial crisis in which we're living today, focuses on those at fault, and the reactions of the citizens most directly affected by the so-called "Second Depression." Schechter conducts interview after interview with economic analysts and experts, as well as journalists, and even Sam Antar, the former Cpa of Crazy Eddie, Inc. and a convicted white-collar criminal, who dishes the dirt on his colleagues. Protesters, usually homeowners who took the brunt of the injustice, were filmed swarming the offenders...
- 4/11/2010
- by Jess Goodwin
- JustPressPlay.net
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