Carl Lerner

Nacimiento : 1912-06-17, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1973-08-26

Historia

American film editor and film director. Mr. Lerner's editor credits included Klute, The Swimmer, with Burt Lancaster, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Middle of the Night The Fugitive Kind, The Goddess, and 12 Angry Men. He had directed commercial 1 and industrial films and was director and editor of Black Like Me. Mr. Lerner had taught film technique at City College, New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and other institutions, and had written many articles on the subject.

Películas

The First Circle
Editor
The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Crawlspace
Editor
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Klute
Editor
En Nueva York, un hombre ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro. Klute (Donald Sutherland), un policía íntimo amigo suyo, encuentra una pista en las cartas que aquél le escribía a una prostituta llamada Bree (Jane Fonda). Va a verla para interrogarla y surge entre ellos una apasionada relación amorosa. Mientras Klute prosigue sus investigaciones en los bajos fondos, empiezan a aparecer prostitutas asesinadas; entonces le asalta la sospecha de que Bree pueda ser la próxima víctima.
El angel Levine
Editor
Morris Mishkin is a elderly religious Jew in New York. His wife Fanny is very ill. He's a tailor, but he can't work because his back has given out. He doesn't even have enough money for Fanny's medicine. Finally, a black fellow appears from nowhere in the Mishkin kitchen. He says he's an angel from God, sent to help Mishkin. The black angel is even Jewish, named Alex Levine? But will Morris believe in the angel? And can the angel perform the miracle that he promises?
Los chicos de la banda
Editor
Adaptación de una exitosa obra de Mart Crowley. Nueve chicos se reúnen para una fiesta de cumpleaños; ocho de ellos se declaran abiertamente gays, y el noveno sostiene que no lo es. Primer film con homosexuales con final no trágico producido en Hollywood.
El nadador
Editor
Ned Merrill vive en una zona residencial de clase alta en las afueras de Connecticut. Una día, Ned se da cuenta de que todo el valle donde vive está lleno de piscinas privadas. Ante el asombro de sus amigos, Ned decide recorrer el valle de piscina en piscina hasta llegar a su casa. Por el camino, se encuentra a varias de las mujeres que formaron parte de su vida: una apasionada adolescente a punto de dejar de serlo, una ex amante despechada, la sensual esposa de un viejo amigo...
Revolution
Editor
The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of the movement . Viewpoints from many kinds of people. Music by Steve Miller Band, Mother Earth, Quicksilver Messenger Service and others.
Brown Eye, Evil Eye
Editor
The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.
A Man Called Adam
Editor
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Smiles
A short film by John G. Avildsen.
The Confession
Editor
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
Black Like Me
Writer
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
Black Like Me
Director
Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man.
All the Way Home
Supervising Editor
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Greenwich Village Story
Consulting Editor
A struggling writer dumps a pregnant dancer for a well-off socialite. Later, he realizes his true feelings and opts to make amends.
Réquiem por un campeón
Editor
Tras ser noqueado por Cassius Clay, a Mountain Rivera ya no le queda nada que hacer en un ring. Dada su edad y las lesiones sufridas a lo largo de su carrera, su entrenador le recomienda que busque un nuevo trabajo. Sin embargo, su representante necesita que vuelva a enfrentarse a Clay...
No Exit: A puerta cerrada
Editor
El Mayordomo conduce a Garcín a una habitación sin espejos ni ventanas; sólo tiene una puerta, tres sillones, una estatua de bronce y un abrecartas. Primero Inés y después Estelle entran en la habitación. El Mayordomo sale y cierra la puerta con llave. Todos temen ser torturados, pero acaban descubriendo que han sido llevados a ese lugar para que se torturen entre sí.
Algo salvaje
Editor
Mary Ann Robinson, una mujer joven que vive en el Bronx, Nueva York, con su neurótica y autoritaria madre, y con su amable pero ineficaz padrastro, es violada mientras camina hacia su casa una noche. Guarda el secreto de su ataque, Mary Ann se escapa, buscando perderse en Manhattan, alquila un piso de mala muerte y toma un trabajo en una tienda. Abrumada por la hostilidad de la gente y su propia desesperación, Mary Ann intenta saltar desde el puente de Manhattan, sólo para ser detenida por Mike, un mecánico que la lleva a su ,odesto apartamento. Al principio se siente agradecida de la bondad de Mike, pero después Mary Ann se ve aterrorizada cuando Mike se niega a dejarla ir. Es realmente Mike un salvador o es otro violador?
Piel de serpiente
Editor
Adaptación de "La caída de Orfeo", drama de Tennessee Williams. Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (Marlon Brando) es un músico de Nueva Orleáns que lleva una vida errante y muy irregular que le crea frecuentes problemas con la ley, razón por la cual se ve obligado a cambiar de ciudad continuamente. Durante un viaje, se detiene en Two Rivers, cerca del Mississippi. Allí consigue trabajo en la tienda de Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani), una mujer madura de origen italiano que se convierte en su amante. Al mismo tiempo, tambien se siente atraído por Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward), una joven alcohólica que corresponde a sus sentimientos.
Rosie
Editor
Unsold television sitcom pilot about a talking dog that befriends a boy.
Come Back, Africa
Editor
Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.
En mitad de la noche
Editor
Jerry Kingsley (March), un hombre viudo y solitario, es el propietario de una fábrica de ropa, en la que trabaja Betty Preisser (Novak), una joven y atractiva divorciada de la que se enamora. Al igual que en "Marty" (1955), su opera prima, Delbert Mann vuelve a tratar el tema de la soledad.
La Diosa
Editor
Una muchacha de origen humilde sueña con triunfar en el mundo del cine. Está dispuesta a todo con tal de conseguir su objetivo: acostarse con productores y manipular a quien sea necesario. Pero, por ese camino, acaba recubriéndose de una coraza protectora que la priva de cualquier sentimiento.
Uncle Vanya
Editor
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
12 hombres sin piedad
Editor
Tras escuchar todos los testimonios y valorar las pruebas presentadas, un jurado popular compuesto por doce hombres tiene que decidir, por unanimidad, si absuelve o condena a muerte a un joven acusado de haber matado a su padre. Al principio, once están completamente convencidos de su culpabilidad y se inclinan por la condena, pero el que discrepa empieza a plantear dudas razonables que, poco a poco, van resquebrajando la inicial seguridad de los demás. Alabadísimo debut cinematográfico de Sidney Lumet.
On the Bowery
Editor
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City's skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have the story of Ray.
Patterns
Editor
Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.
A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
Editor
Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview features the artist talking with James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the Guggenheim Museum. Duchamp describes his transition away from Impressionism toward a Cubist, and then post-Cubist, approach, providing commentary while standing before Nude Descending a Staircase
The Big Break
Editor
Marty is a shipping clerk in the garment district and a wise guy trying to cut corners and get by on angles, and not very good at it. He meets Helen and decides to change his ways, but lack of patience in slow-progress jobs leads him to become involved with a neighborhood gang.
So Young, So Bad
Editor
Idealistic and naive Dr. Jason arrives at a school for delinquent girls and immediately begins to try to make a difference in the lives of some of the inmates. Oblivious to the sadistic treatment of the girls by the matrons, it takes a rebellious girl named Loretta to open his eyes. Assisted by a female staff member, Jason finally gets proof of the abuse and threatens the head of the school with exposure unless he is given full rein to run things.
Cry Murder
Editor
A young actress has retired from films to marry the son of a prominent and rich politician in New York City. The father objects strongly to the marriage. The actress is being blackmailed by a second-rate artist who has stolen some letters from her that could be misconstrued. During the payoff, she is knocked unconscious, and awakens to find herself involved in a murder and the police have her marked as the number-one suspect.