Aleks Gezentsvey is editing Couchgarden in New York. Looks very pretty.
These BLOW UP STILLS will not be in the movie because they happened after Robbie called CUT but we like them for the process they show, the things that will happen in Arizona in the summer if you drink your juice for breakfast.
Jonothon Lyons as Mousey Patriquin. Mousey emerges from the pool at the Clarendon Hotel clutching the vastly important hock of ham.
We are out of the desert and back in the mountains. Principal photography for Couchgarden is complete.
It is like this from Hemingway:
"We tried to count the number of mountain ranges we had crossed and figure the mileage we had made and then we gave it up. It did not matter. It was made."
There were boats and airplanes and lakes and pools and sunsets behind rings of mountains; rooftops, resorts, and all the time the Phoenix summer heat which you cannot really tell to someone if they have not felt it underneath their skin.
But everyone mostly survived and we have come out with a story in sound and pictures that gave itself to us easier than we expected. But maybe it only seemed easier. Maybe we had been in the ring with it so long that we actually earned the prize we took home.
Still from COUCHGARDEN. Filming at the Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix.
7 days until shooting commences in the desert.
They named Phoenix the summer after the stars fell...
Icelandic Paradise Hunters (1847)
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Together we go UP UP UP.
How we move through the desert. Strings are still synthetic here until we get the real juice down; the drums are real.
