Over her two-decade-long career, music supervisor and self-confessed music nerd Susan Jacobs has worked with directors such as Robert Altman, Jean-Marc Vallée and Spike Lee. She has worked on notable TV series and films such as I, Tonya, American Hustle, and Little Miss Sunshine. She won the first ever Emmy award for music supervision for her work on Vallée’s Big Little Lies, where she worked without a composer, handpicking specific sounds and musical artists for each character in an attempt to mirror the intricacies of their personal lives. On another Vallée project, Sharp Objects, Jacobs exhibited this aptitude again, building […]
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- 12/19/2023
- by Arrow Peretz
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Over her two-decade-long career, music supervisor and self-confessed music nerd Susan Jacobs has worked with directors such as Robert Altman, Jean-Marc Vallée and Spike Lee. She has worked on notable TV series and films such as I, Tonya, American Hustle, and Little Miss Sunshine. She won the first ever Emmy award for music supervision for her work on Vallée’s Big Little Lies, where she worked without a composer, handpicking specific sounds and musical artists for each character in an attempt to mirror the intricacies of their personal lives. On another Vallée project, Sharp Objects, Jacobs exhibited this aptitude again, building […]
The post “If You Know the Song, and Your Mother Knows the Song, You Can’t Afford the Song”: Music Supervisor Susan Jacobs Demystifies the Profession first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “If You Know the Song, and Your Mother Knows the Song, You Can’t Afford the Song”: Music Supervisor Susan Jacobs Demystifies the Profession first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 12/19/2023
- by Arrow Peretz
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The medical drama Transplant’s second season ended with a shocking departure and several cliffhangers for York Memorial’s emergency department docs. Longtime boss Jed Bishop (John Hannah) quit; an injured Theo Hunter (Jim Watson) was alone in a forest after a helicopter crash; and “Bash” Hamed (Hamza Haq) paid a meaningful late-night visit to “Mags” Leblanc (Laurence Leboeuf). (Credit: Yan Turcotte/Sphere Media/CTV) 1. Bash and Mags Are Getting Close But, exec producer Josée Vallée notes, “The road will be bumpy. The chemistry is there, but [Syrian refugee] Bash is complicated with a lot of baggage, and Mags must face tough decisions about her [congenital] heart condition.” 2. A New Chief Arrives Bishop’s resignation “is hard on all our doctors,” Vallée says. His replacement: American public health expert Neeta Devi (Rekha Sharma). “This is her first job as a department chief, and she’s filled with big ideas.” Like patient satisfaction surveys.
- 10/11/2023
- TV Insider
Season 2 of "Big Little Lies" (in 2019) ended with an explosive reveal, one that undoubtedly helped result in the highest viewership the series had seen. The Monterey Five, made up of Reese Witherspoon's Madeline Mackenzie, Nicole Kidman's Celeste Wright, Shailene Woodley's Jane Chapman, Laura Dern's Renata Klein, and Zoë Kravitz's Bonnie Carlson, ostensibly put their titular lie to bed. In the finale, after suffering through a season of guilt and repressed rage stemming from their involvement in and subsequent cover-up of Perry Wright's (Alexander Skarsgård) death, all five women walk together to the Monterey police station, presumptively going inside to confess.
The series ends there, though for sticklers it concluded a season before when the show wrapped the story contained in source author Liane Moriarty's original novel. The cover-up, Meryl Streep's ferocious mother-in-law Mary Louise — all of that was fiction stemming from fiction.
The series ends there, though for sticklers it concluded a season before when the show wrapped the story contained in source author Liane Moriarty's original novel. The cover-up, Meryl Streep's ferocious mother-in-law Mary Louise — all of that was fiction stemming from fiction.
- 8/14/2023
- by Chad Collins
- Slash Film
Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA) has unveiled the selection for its 20th edition running from August 30 to September 9, featuring a surprise short by Céline Sciamma, a new feature by Teona Strugar Mitevska as well as a tribute to late Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée.
The line-up spans 10 films in competition, seven special events, eight titles in Venetian Nights as well as a special day-long event devoted Vallée and the cinema of Québec, featuring a screening of his 2005 coming of age drama C.R.A.Z.Y.
Highlights of the competition include Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize’s quirky vampire tale Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person; Atlas Mountains-set ensemble theatre group road movie Backstage by directorial debut Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane; Through The Night, in which Belgian director Delphine Girard expands her Oscar-nominated short A Sister, and Sidonie In Paris, starring Isabelle Huppert as a writer mourning the...
The line-up spans 10 films in competition, seven special events, eight titles in Venetian Nights as well as a special day-long event devoted Vallée and the cinema of Québec, featuring a screening of his 2005 coming of age drama C.R.A.Z.Y.
Highlights of the competition include Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize’s quirky vampire tale Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person; Atlas Mountains-set ensemble theatre group road movie Backstage by directorial debut Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane; Through The Night, in which Belgian director Delphine Girard expands her Oscar-nominated short A Sister, and Sidonie In Paris, starring Isabelle Huppert as a writer mourning the...
- 7/27/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Kathryn Hahn has a type. Since starring in Joey Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight” in 2013, the actor has spent a decade delivering nuanced portrayals of messy, horny, hilarious women who bluster their way through middle age. It is a miracle of modern television that Hahn’s hyper-specific specialty has supported three separate series: “I Love Dick,” also helmed by Soloway; “Mrs. Fletcher”; and now, “Tiny Beautiful Things.”
Created by Liz Tigelaar of “Little Fires Everywhere,” the Hulu half-hour casts Hahn as a fictional version of Cheryl Strayed, the memoirist and advice columnist who rose to fame by blending both forms into one. The show is adapted from the 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays Strayed first published under the moniker Dear Sugar. Strayed met her readers’ deeply personal disclosures with some of her own, sharing her experience with addiction, grief and abuse in long missives more meandering and literary than straightforward tips.
Created by Liz Tigelaar of “Little Fires Everywhere,” the Hulu half-hour casts Hahn as a fictional version of Cheryl Strayed, the memoirist and advice columnist who rose to fame by blending both forms into one. The show is adapted from the 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays Strayed first published under the moniker Dear Sugar. Strayed met her readers’ deeply personal disclosures with some of her own, sharing her experience with addiction, grief and abuse in long missives more meandering and literary than straightforward tips.
- 4/6/2023
- by Alison Herman
- Variety Film + TV
Auteur Jean-Marc Vallée died on Christmas Day 2021, and, given the sudden nature of his death — the coroner attributed it to “a fatal cardiac arrhythmia secondary to severe coronary atherosclerosis” — and a Covid-19 surge, his Hollywood family wasn’t able to gather to honor his life until a recent December day.
In what was described as a “small, intimate and private” gathering, actors, writers, producers, crew and execs from Vallée’s projects like Dallas Buyers Club, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects and Wild headed to Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica for an afternoon service that was supported by HBO and Searchlight and organized by his two sons, Émile and Alex.
After eulogies, guests took a stroll to the Pacific Ocean during magic hour to toss roses into the sea, and everyone went home with a mixtape made by one of his sons, per a tradition started by Vallée, who...
In what was described as a “small, intimate and private” gathering, actors, writers, producers, crew and execs from Vallée’s projects like Dallas Buyers Club, Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects and Wild headed to Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica for an afternoon service that was supported by HBO and Searchlight and organized by his two sons, Émile and Alex.
After eulogies, guests took a stroll to the Pacific Ocean during magic hour to toss roses into the sea, and everyone went home with a mixtape made by one of his sons, per a tradition started by Vallée, who...
- 1/6/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Item 7, the producer of Jean-Marc Vallée’s breakout movie C.R.A.Z.Y., is at work on a documentary about the Dallas Buyers Club and Big Little Lies director, who died suddenly in December 2021 at the age of 58 years.
Marie-Julie Dallaire will direct Cut Print Thank You Bye, which has the support of and participation from the family of the late Canadian filmmaker — his sons Alex and Émile Vallée, and their mother, Chantal Cadieux.
Pierre Even will produce the feature-length doc that will use archives and original footage to recall the life of Vallée, who grew as a director in Quebec before breaking out in Hollywood with a string of studio films and TV hits.
“Jean-Marc and I became friends at the release of C.R.A.Z.Y. His sudden departure leaves me without words. Yet, I feel the need to...
Item 7, the producer of Jean-Marc Vallée’s breakout movie C.R.A.Z.Y., is at work on a documentary about the Dallas Buyers Club and Big Little Lies director, who died suddenly in December 2021 at the age of 58 years.
Marie-Julie Dallaire will direct Cut Print Thank You Bye, which has the support of and participation from the family of the late Canadian filmmaker — his sons Alex and Émile Vallée, and their mother, Chantal Cadieux.
Pierre Even will produce the feature-length doc that will use archives and original footage to recall the life of Vallée, who grew as a director in Quebec before breaking out in Hollywood with a string of studio films and TV hits.
“Jean-Marc and I became friends at the release of C.R.A.Z.Y. His sudden departure leaves me without words. Yet, I feel the need to...
- 6/16/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The late, great Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée was honored in Banff with a moving tribute during Tuesday’s Rockie Awards.
The Montreal filmmaker — who is best known for directing “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Wild” along with TV series “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects” — died suddenly on Dec. 25, sending shockwaves across the Canadian film industry and Hollywood. Vallée made his name in Canada with films such as “C.R.A.Z.Y.” and “Café de Flore” before transitioning into Hollywood fare.
Vallée received a post-humous Canadian Award of Distinction, with a beautifully edited reel of the director’s movies and candid moments leaving few dry eyes in the audience. The video was set to songs that were used in Vallée’s films, which relied heavily on music. (The director got his start making music videos.)
Vallée was honored by his close friend and collaborator Marc Côté, who was meant to...
The Montreal filmmaker — who is best known for directing “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Wild” along with TV series “Big Little Lies” and “Sharp Objects” — died suddenly on Dec. 25, sending shockwaves across the Canadian film industry and Hollywood. Vallée made his name in Canada with films such as “C.R.A.Z.Y.” and “Café de Flore” before transitioning into Hollywood fare.
Vallée received a post-humous Canadian Award of Distinction, with a beautifully edited reel of the director’s movies and candid moments leaving few dry eyes in the audience. The video was set to songs that were used in Vallée’s films, which relied heavily on music. (The director got his start making music videos.)
Vallée was honored by his close friend and collaborator Marc Côté, who was meant to...
- 6/15/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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Channel Four’s Help, starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Banff Rockie Awards after the British pandemic drama won the best feature length film prize at the Banff World Media Festival’s international TV competition on Monday night.
The film from The Forge, Channel 4 and All3Media International is set in a Liverpool care home and stars Comer as a carer who bonds with a patient, played by Graham, and is put to the test as the Covid-19 pandemic hits in March 2020. Past recipients of the Grand Jury Prize include I May Destroy You, Fleabag, Big Little Lies, Planet Earth II and Sharp Objects.
In other prize giving on Tuesday night, the dramedy series Sort Of, from the CBC and HBO Max and starring and co-created by Bilal Baig, won the program of the year prize.
Channel Four’s Help, starring Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham, has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Banff Rockie Awards after the British pandemic drama won the best feature length film prize at the Banff World Media Festival’s international TV competition on Monday night.
The film from The Forge, Channel 4 and All3Media International is set in a Liverpool care home and stars Comer as a carer who bonds with a patient, played by Graham, and is put to the test as the Covid-19 pandemic hits in March 2020. Past recipients of the Grand Jury Prize include I May Destroy You, Fleabag, Big Little Lies, Planet Earth II and Sharp Objects.
In other prize giving on Tuesday night, the dramedy series Sort Of, from the CBC and HBO Max and starring and co-created by Bilal Baig, won the program of the year prize.
- 6/15/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Banff World Media Festival revealed the winners of the 2022 Rockie Awards International Program Competition on Monday, with big winners including the “Friends” Reunion, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “We Are Lady Parts” and more.
The event, held in Banff and hosted by comedian Rakhee Morzaria (“Run the Burbs”) featured winners chosen by a panel of 150 international industry professionals. The Rockie Awards International Program Competition presented awards in 28 categories spanning Documentary & Factual, Arts & Entertainment, Children & Youth, Scripted, and Podcast.
The competition featured 148 nominations from 45 countries including the UK, United, Canada, Australia, France, China, Germany, Italy and Norway.
On Tuesday, the Banff World Media Festival will honor late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée posthumously with its Canadian Award of Distinction. Vallée will be joined in being honored at Banff’s Rockie Award Gala by “American Auto” star Ana Gasteyer, who will receive the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award, and the “Yellowjackets” team of Ashley Lyle,...
The event, held in Banff and hosted by comedian Rakhee Morzaria (“Run the Burbs”) featured winners chosen by a panel of 150 international industry professionals. The Rockie Awards International Program Competition presented awards in 28 categories spanning Documentary & Factual, Arts & Entertainment, Children & Youth, Scripted, and Podcast.
The competition featured 148 nominations from 45 countries including the UK, United, Canada, Australia, France, China, Germany, Italy and Norway.
On Tuesday, the Banff World Media Festival will honor late filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée posthumously with its Canadian Award of Distinction. Vallée will be joined in being honored at Banff’s Rockie Award Gala by “American Auto” star Ana Gasteyer, who will receive the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award, and the “Yellowjackets” team of Ashley Lyle,...
- 6/14/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Jean-Marc Vallée, an Emmy-winning director and executive producer, has died. He was 58.
Vallée, who was Canadian, died in his cabin outside of Quebec City, our sister site Variety reports.
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Vallée was behind HBO’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. In 2017, he won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Big Little Lies‘ first season.
Vallée, who was Canadian, died in his cabin outside of Quebec City, our sister site Variety reports.
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Vallée was behind HBO’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. In 2017, he won the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or a Dramatic Special for Big Little Lies‘ first season.
- 12/27/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
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