Barry Sonnenfeld in conversation with Rob Reiner at Live Talks Los Angeles

Barry Sonnenfeld in conversation with Rob Reiner at Live Talks Los Angeles discussing his memoir,
"Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time: True Stories from a Career in Hollywood." This event was taped on October 22, 2024.
One-of-a-kind filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld tells stories only he can tell, from his blockbuster career with iconic actors, studio execs, and producers. His humor and insight provide an inside glimpse into how Hollywood really works, or how it doesn’t.
Barry Sonnenfeld is a filmmaker and writer who broke into the film industry as the cinematographer on the Coen Brothers’ first three films: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, and Miller’s Crossing. He also was the director of photography on Throw Mamma from the Train, Big, When Harry Met Sally, and Misery. Sonnenfeld made his directorial debut with The Addams Family in 1991, and has gone on to direct a number of films including Addams Family Values, Get Shorty, and the first three Men in Blacks. His television credits include Pushing Daisies, for which he won an Emmy, Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and most recently Apple TV+’s Schmigadoon! He is the author of Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother.
Rob Reiner first came to fame as a two-time Emmy Award-winning actor in the landmark television series All In The Family. He went on to become an acclaimed director whose credits include the satire This is Spinal Tap to dramas Stand By Me, Misery, A Few Good Men, and Ghosts of Mississippi, to romantic comedies When Harry Met Sally and The American President, to the enduring classic, The Princess Pride. His now 20 films also include The Bucket List, Flipped, LBJ, Shock and Awe, and most recently, the documentary Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, and a sequel to This is Spinal Tap. Reiner is also a dedicated political activist.
Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time delivers a cavalcade of sometimes baffling, often enlightening, and always funny stories about Sonnenfeld’s many films and television shows. From battling with studio executives and producers to bad-script-solving on set to coaxing actors into finding the right light and talking faster, Sonnenfeld provides an entertaining master class in how to make commercial art in the face of constant human foible. Over four decades in Hollywood, the mega-franchises include The Addams Family and Men in Black movies; the critical favorites, Get Shorty and Pushing Daisies; and working with Will Smith, John Travolta, and Michael Jackson; and the projects that got away, Forrest Gump, Ali, and anything starring Jim Carrey.
The true stories escalate from surreal to outrageous to unbelievable. And then there’s magic hour. But you’ll never see Hollywood the same way again.

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