Editor Stephen Berger has come aboard Cut+Run, continuing the company's growth curve over the past year which has included expansion into San Francisco and Austin. Berger will be available to work from any of the Cut+Run offices including Los Angeles, New York, and London.
Berger has a natural inclination to connect with each project, which can be seen in his beautiful, lyrical and intense work for Activision directed by Reynald Gresset, XBOX directed by David Fincher and Tim Miller, the Cannes-winning Logitech directed by Paul Hunter, BMW directed by Carl Erik Rinsch, and Sony Dreams by director Jessica Sanders.
Among Berger's other high-profile projects the Chevy Volt Super Bowl spot directed by Filip Engstrom and a Battlefield 3 spot directed by Noam Murro, as well as the BMW clean diesel launch directed by Raf Wathion, and Ugg spots with Tom Brady directed by the Guard brothers. Berger also garnered attention for Logorama, which earned the Academy Award for Best Animated Short; two Spike Jonze short films I'm Here and We Were Once A Fairytale; and Patrick Daughters' Grizzly Bear music video "Two Weeks" which won a Yellow Pencil. Berger, formerly of Final Cut, comes to Cut+Run having just edited a Target holiday campaign via 72andSunny.
Berger joins a Cut+Run's editing roster which includes Eve Ashwell, Ben Campbell, Isaac Chen, Nick Diss, Georgia Dodson, Alex Dondero, Frank Effron, Steve Gandolfi, Jon Grover, TG Herrington, Akiko Iwakawa, Sam Jones, Staci LeVan, Julia Knight, Gary Knight, Pete Koob, Dan Maloney, Chris McKay, Joel Miller, Jay Nelson, Sam Ostrove, Nathan Perry-Greene, Dan Robinson, Julian Tranquille, Graham Turner, and Dayn Williams.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More