I watched a video with the cinematographer of the movie. There was a street scene that took about 14 minutes to shoot, mainly because of improvisation by Faulk and cassevette Unfortunately, I guess all cameras only contain 10 minutes of film. As the cinematographer got close to the 10 minute mark, he made the slashing gesture to his throat, signaling that he was almost out of film. May said to keep filming. When it came time to edit she called the cinematographer and asked where was the rest of the footage. He guessed that, in her mind, it was on film. May is a very great writer, a great director and a pretty good actor. She probably would have had a loner career going the Woody Allen way of making movies and not the studio method of making movies.
Doesn't necessarily indicate improvisation. If the actors are exceeding the maximum film time, it may be that they're doing repeated takes on scripted material.
I watched a video with the cinematographer of the movie. There was a street scene that took about 14 minutes to shoot, mainly because of improvisation by Faulk and cassevette Unfortunately, I guess all cameras only contain 10 minutes of film. As the cinematographer got close to the 10 minute mark, he made the slashing gesture to his throat, signaling that he was almost out of film. May said to keep filming. When it came time to edit she called the cinematographer and asked where was the rest of the footage. He guessed that, in her mind, it was on film. May is a very great writer, a great director and a pretty good actor. She probably would have had a loner career going the Woody Allen way of making movies and not the studio method of making movies.
Doesn't necessarily indicate improvisation. If the actors are exceeding the maximum film time, it may be that they're doing repeated takes on scripted material.
I dont believe it was all scripted- still I liked it a lot
It wasn't all scripted. Peter Falk and John Cassavetes ad-libbed like crazy.