Mark A. Livolsi, a respected film editor who collaborated with filmmakers including Cameron Crowe and Oliver Stone and edited “The Devil Wears Prada” and “The Blind Side” died September 23 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 56. The cause of death is not yet known.
Livolsi’s most recent project was editing the upcoming 2019 live-action remake of “The Lion King,” starring Donald Glover. He had also worked with director Jon Favreau on the remake of animated film “The Jungle Book” in 2016.
He worked several times with Crowe, editing “Vanilla Sky,” “We Bought a Zoo” and “Elizabethtown” in addition to cult classic “Almost Famous,” and worked on “Heaven & Earth” and “Wall Street” for Stone.
In addition to “The Devil Wears Prada,” he worked with director David Frankel on “Marley and Me” and “The Big Year.”
Livolsi was born in Mt. Lebanon, New Jersey. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in...
Livolsi’s most recent project was editing the upcoming 2019 live-action remake of “The Lion King,” starring Donald Glover. He had also worked with director Jon Favreau on the remake of animated film “The Jungle Book” in 2016.
He worked several times with Crowe, editing “Vanilla Sky,” “We Bought a Zoo” and “Elizabethtown” in addition to cult classic “Almost Famous,” and worked on “Heaven & Earth” and “Wall Street” for Stone.
In addition to “The Devil Wears Prada,” he worked with director David Frankel on “Marley and Me” and “The Big Year.”
Livolsi was born in Mt. Lebanon, New Jersey. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in...
- 10/4/2018
- by Margeaux Sippell
- Variety Film + TV
Carlo Di Palma and Woody AllenThe only thing more consistent than the quality of Carlo Di Palma’s cinematography is the routine variance of his work. Though his most prominent titles were primarily those done in collaboration with two key directors—Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen—what he demonstrated over the course of his career, in these films and dozens more, revealed a remarkable exhibition of visual range. His decades-spanning career produced a gallery of fluctuating colors, lighting techniques, temperatures, movements, and tones. And more often than not, what he refined in this richly varying field proved to be a directly corresponding realization of profound psychological consequence.Born April 17, 1925 in Rome, the son of a camera repair man, Di Palma’s cinematic commencement went from focus operator on Neo-Realist essentials like Rome, Open City (1945) and Bicycle Thieves (1948) to serving various capacities on largely subpar Italian fare. A turning point came...
- 7/28/2017
- MUBI
Everyone knows Woody Allen. At least, everyone thinks they know Woody Allen. His plumage is easily identifiable: horn-rimmed glasses, baggy suit, wispy hair, kvetching demeanor, ironic sense of humor, acute fear of death. As is his habitat: New York City, though recently he has flown as far afield as London, Barcelona, and Paris. His likes are well known: Bergman, Dostoevsky, New Orleans jazz. So too his dislikes: spiders, cars, nature, Wagner records, the entire city of Los Angeles. Whether or not these traits represent the true Allen, who’s to say? It is impossible to tell, with Allen, where cinema ends and life begins, an obfuscation he readily encourages. In the late nineteen-seventies, disillusioned with the comedic success he’d found making such films as Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), and Annie Hall (1977), he turned for darker territory with Stardust Memories (1980), a film in which, none too surprisingly, he plays a...
- 1/24/2015
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
Woody Allen used to joke that television was the result of how Los Angeles disposes of its trash, but now he's in the business himself. There's a lot that's fascinating, surprising, confusing, even shocking about the news that he'll be creating a TV series for Amazon. For one thing, he's maintaining the same secrecy about plot and title that he does for his movies. Still, Moviefone can try to answer your burning questions about the Allen project.
Does Allen know how to write for TV? Yes, he does. Surprisingly, no one seems to remember that one of his first jobs in showbiz was as a TV comedy writer for the great 1950s sketch comic Sid Caesar, whose legendary writer's room launched not just Allen's career but also those of Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks. He wrote for some other golden-age comedy series as well. Concurrent with his movie career over the last 45 years,...
Does Allen know how to write for TV? Yes, he does. Surprisingly, no one seems to remember that one of his first jobs in showbiz was as a TV comedy writer for the great 1950s sketch comic Sid Caesar, whose legendary writer's room launched not just Allen's career but also those of Neil Simon, Carl Reiner, and Mel Brooks. He wrote for some other golden-age comedy series as well. Concurrent with his movie career over the last 45 years,...
- 1/16/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Has it really been 20 months since Louie, a strong contender for the greatest show currently on TV (half-hour meta-comedy about a stand-up that runs on FX division) graced our airwaves? How time flies when you're busy watching long-running sitcoms disappoint their fans with so-so finales and chemistry teachers-turned-drug lords go out in a blaze of glory. The return of Renaissance man Louis C.K.'s brilliant, Beckett-like series is a cause for celebration, and as the back-to-back episodes that kicked off its fourth season last night confirmed, the time off has paid off,...
- 5/6/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Maybe, just maybe, Louis C.K. can do it. Bring home the Emmy for Best Comedy Series, that is.
Comedian Louis C.K.’s free form FX show, Louie, got six Emmy nominations with its biggest score in the category for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was also nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Melissa Leo) and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series (Susan E. Morse, A.C.E., Editor – (“Daddy’s Girlfriend Part 2”).
This was the first time any basic cable show has been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series and for once stop the domination of network comedies like Modern Family from taking all of the major awards in the comedy categories. Other basic cable comedies like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Psych, and Archer have long been ignored.
Comedian Louis C.K.’s free form FX show, Louie, got six Emmy nominations with its biggest score in the category for Outstanding Comedy Series. It was also nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor a Comedy Series, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (Melissa Leo) and Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series (Susan E. Morse, A.C.E., Editor – (“Daddy’s Girlfriend Part 2”).
This was the first time any basic cable show has been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series and for once stop the domination of network comedies like Modern Family from taking all of the major awards in the comedy categories. Other basic cable comedies like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Psych, and Archer have long been ignored.
- 7/18/2013
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
When we learned that Louis C.K. was using Woody Allen's longtime editor Susan E. Morse and acting in Allen's Blue Jasmine, we got excited that the two greatest redheaded comedians ever (sorry, Carrot Top and Kathy Griffin) were going to become best friends. It seems like our wishes came true. Allen, in an interview with the New York Times, said he didn't know C.K.'s work beforehand, first seeing him while trying to watch Bobby Cannavale in one of C.K.'s short films. "He’s clearly such a sweet guy. I was dying to use him in something, so we used him to play the sweeter guy [in Blue Jasmine]," Allen explained. But Allen doesn't see this as the last time the two will work together: I’d love to do a movie with him and me, a comedy. I’m looking for some idea that would work, for the two of us to do.
- 7/17/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Louis C.K. has always been a big Woody Allen fan — he even hired Allen's longtime editor, Susan E. Morse (who cut together classics like Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters), to work on the last season of his FX series Louie — but in Allen's upcoming film, Blue Jasmine, C.K.'s actually part of the movie's impressive ensemble cast. The movie stars the galvanizing Cate Blanchett as a disgraced Manhattan society wife who loses her wealth and must move to San Francisco to live with her agreeably impoverished sister (Sally Hawkins); C.K. and Bobby Cannavale play two suitors with romantic designs on Hawkins. In this exclusive clip, you can watch as an unusually cheerful and romantic C.K. woos Hawkins during a postcoital stroll on the beach, but is there more to his easygoing character than initially meets the eye? You can find out on July 26, when Blue Jasmine...
- 7/15/2013
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
There will be a fourth season of "Louie" on FX, but you'll have to wait a while for it.
Series creator/writer/director/star Louis C.K. and FX president John Landgraf say the show won't return until the spring of 2014. C.K. wants to take some extra time to figure out where he wants the show to go and, he says, make it better.
"The last three seasons have been this surge of fun and work and stories. It's been great to share all this stuff, but I want to keep going. I want the show to keep getting better," C.K. says. "That's my goal. I don't want it to be making the doughnuts. I want it to keep being something that comes from somewhere fun and important, and I want it to stay funny."
C.K. says he wants the fourth season of "Louie" to go "somewhere new,...
Series creator/writer/director/star Louis C.K. and FX president John Landgraf say the show won't return until the spring of 2014. C.K. wants to take some extra time to figure out where he wants the show to go and, he says, make it better.
"The last three seasons have been this surge of fun and work and stories. It's been great to share all this stuff, but I want to keep going. I want the show to keep getting better," C.K. says. "That's my goal. I don't want it to be making the doughnuts. I want it to keep being something that comes from somewhere fun and important, and I want it to stay funny."
C.K. says he wants the fourth season of "Louie" to go "somewhere new,...
- 10/9/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Louie, Season 3, Episode 13: “New Year’s Eve”
Written by Louis C.K.
Directed by Louis C.K.
Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX
The last time Louie ended a season, we said goodbye to Pamela, the one who quite literally got away. This time around, it’s Liz (Parker Posey), who finally reunites with Louie thanks to a chance encounter, only to collapse and die literally moments later. It’s a rather literal, and shocking, manifestation of Louie‘s ultimate theme, particularly this season: shit happens, and you have to learn to roll with the punches when it does. “New Year’s Eve” throws its cruelest punch yet in Louie’s direction, so he responds with an appropriately wild move: he hightails it to Beijing.
The only thing stopping “New Year’s Eve” from being the quintessential Louie episode is that it turns out to be one of the...
Written by Louis C.K.
Directed by Louis C.K.
Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX
The last time Louie ended a season, we said goodbye to Pamela, the one who quite literally got away. This time around, it’s Liz (Parker Posey), who finally reunites with Louie thanks to a chance encounter, only to collapse and die literally moments later. It’s a rather literal, and shocking, manifestation of Louie‘s ultimate theme, particularly this season: shit happens, and you have to learn to roll with the punches when it does. “New Year’s Eve” throws its cruelest punch yet in Louie’s direction, so he responds with an appropriately wild move: he hightails it to Beijing.
The only thing stopping “New Year’s Eve” from being the quintessential Louie episode is that it turns out to be one of the...
- 9/28/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
"Louie" begins its third season on FX Thursday night (June 28), and it remains maybe the purest expression of a creator's vision on television. Because as much control as, say, "Mad Men's" Matthew Weiner or "The Newsroom's" Aaron Sorkin may have over their shows, they don't write, direct and star in every episode.
Louis C.K. does that, and he used to edit his own show too. He's now turned those reins over (mostly) to Susan E. Morse, a long-time Woody Allen collaborator, but he still puts his stamp on virtually every aspect of the show, in part, he says, because he doesn't want to become complacent.
"One way I do that is to make it harder. I mean, this season was a lot harder than last season," C.K. says. "It's just that the production was more difficult, and I did ... more things that I wasn't sure I would be able to pull off.
Louis C.K. does that, and he used to edit his own show too. He's now turned those reins over (mostly) to Susan E. Morse, a long-time Woody Allen collaborator, but he still puts his stamp on virtually every aspect of the show, in part, he says, because he doesn't want to become complacent.
"One way I do that is to make it harder. I mean, this season was a lot harder than last season," C.K. says. "It's just that the production was more difficult, and I did ... more things that I wasn't sure I would be able to pull off.
- 6/28/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Louis C.K., whose career path is very similar to that of fellow filmmaker/comedian Woody Allen, will appear in the legendary filmmaker's next movie. Variety reports that C.K. has been cast in the currently untitled film.
Also announced in the cast for the film are Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Emerson, Sally Hawkins and Peter Sarsgaard.
Not only are Allen and C.K. both talented stand-up comedians, but they also both transitioned into film and TV careers marked by prolific outputs and near-total control of their art. Allen has directed, written and often starred in a movie nearly every single year since the mid-1960s, and C.K. does the same roles on his critically-acclaimed FX show "Louie" in addition to writing and performing a new hour of stand-up each year.
In fact, C.K. recently hired editor Susan E. Morse, who edited every...
Also announced in the cast for the film are Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Emerson, Sally Hawkins and Peter Sarsgaard.
Not only are Allen and C.K. both talented stand-up comedians, but they also both transitioned into film and TV careers marked by prolific outputs and near-total control of their art. Allen has directed, written and often starred in a movie nearly every single year since the mid-1960s, and C.K. does the same roles on his critically-acclaimed FX show "Louie" in addition to writing and performing a new hour of stand-up each year.
In fact, C.K. recently hired editor Susan E. Morse, who edited every...
- 6/4/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
Laurence Anyways
Written by Xavier Dolan
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada / France, 2012
No one will dispute Xavier Dolan’s ambition. The now 23-year-old filmmaker already has three features under his belt, each more audacious than the last. Laurence Anyways, his follow-up to the warmly received Les Amours Imaginaires, seems on its face to represent Dolan’s vault into greater things: a gender-breaking anti-romance spanning a decade, boasting a daunting 161-minute runtime and an unusual aspect ratio (1.33:1), and shot in both France and Québec, Laurence promises either greatness or utter folly. The truth, as usual, rests somewhere in the middle: Dolan’s film contains revelatory performances, moments of startling beauty, and his most strikingly empathetic material, but his excesses nearly discard the goodwill built up over the film’s first 100 or so minutes.
Ostensibly, the film revolves around Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), a high-school teacher who harbors and then acts on...
Written by Xavier Dolan
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada / France, 2012
No one will dispute Xavier Dolan’s ambition. The now 23-year-old filmmaker already has three features under his belt, each more audacious than the last. Laurence Anyways, his follow-up to the warmly received Les Amours Imaginaires, seems on its face to represent Dolan’s vault into greater things: a gender-breaking anti-romance spanning a decade, boasting a daunting 161-minute runtime and an unusual aspect ratio (1.33:1), and shot in both France and Québec, Laurence promises either greatness or utter folly. The truth, as usual, rests somewhere in the middle: Dolan’s film contains revelatory performances, moments of startling beauty, and his most strikingly empathetic material, but his excesses nearly discard the goodwill built up over the film’s first 100 or so minutes.
Ostensibly, the film revolves around Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), a high-school teacher who harbors and then acts on...
- 5/23/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Louis C.K.’s FX series Louie is commonly wowed at for, among other, funnier things, his total creative control — he writes, directs, stars, and sits in with musicians giving the episodes their wompy bebop scores. And to complete his total grasp on everything, he edited much of season one and the entirety of season two — often, as he told New York last summer, in his living room or in coffee shops. For the upcoming third season, he sent out a nonchalant tweet in February — “Exciting: I have fired myself as editor of Louie for season 3 and hired Susan E. Morse. check her out, yo” — accompanied by a link which, when clicked through, revealed that his new editor was Woody Allen’s go-to editor for two decades. She’s Susan E. Morse, and she cut everything from 1977's Annie Hall (as an assistant) to Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and...
- 5/21/2012
- by Zach Dionne
- Vulture
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