Carl Lerner

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

Morte : 1973-08-26

História

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.

Filmes

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, O Passado Condena
Editor
John Klute (Donald Sutherland) é um detetive do interior contratado para descobrir o paradeiro de um empresário desaparecido há seis meses. Ele chega a Nova York para investigar o caso e a única pista que possui são cartas de teor pornográfico enviadas a Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), uma prostituta. Bree já trabalhou para Frank Ligourin (Roy Scheider), mas atualmente faz programas apenas por indicação. Ela foge do detetive, mas, chantageada, acaba aceitando guiá-lo pelo submundo da prostituição.
The 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?
Os Rapazes da Banda
Editor
Os níveis de tensão começam a aumentar e os nervos começam a aflorar conforme uma festa de aniversário se aproxima do clímax e os convidados vão revelando suas naturezas e suas personalidades reprimidas quando um homem heterossexual, convidado por acidente, se vê em meio à uma festa gay.
Enigma de uma Vida
Editor
Neddy Merrill tem estado ausente durante a maior parte do verão. Ele reaparece em uma piscina de amigos. Enquanto eles conversam, alguém percebe que há piscinas em todos os vizinhos, abrangendo todo o vale. Ele decide nadar de piscina para piscina por todo o vale. Quando ele para em cada piscina de seu caminho, conta a sua história de vida. Seus amigos estão perplexos com sua determinação em concluir a missão, "nadando em casa", mas foi imediatamente compreendido intuitivamente. Sua paixão é monumental, assim como é monumental o seu esquecimento e décadas de negligência com aqueles que ele tem de mais caro. Sua odisseia o leva de amor e poder a desespero e ruína.
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 um Lutador
Editor
Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) é um lutador de boxe à beira da aposentadoria que não consegue arrumar um emprego normal e é obrigado por seu empresário a participar de lutas-livres, daquelas que mais parecem um circo.
No Exit
Editor
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Quando a Vida é Cruel
Editor
Uma jovem vítima de estupro tenta desesperadamente juntar os pedaços de sua vida, apenas para depois se ver à mercê de um pretenso salvador. Mary Ann Robinson, uma jovem mulher morando no Bronx, Nova York, com sua mãe neurótica e dominadora e seu gentil mas ineficaz padrasto, é estuprada enquanto caminhava para casa uma noite. Guardando o ataque para si mesma, Mary Ann foge, procurando perder-se em Manhattan, alugando um apartamento miserável e tendo um emprego em uma loja de produtos de dez centavos. Abatida pela hostilidade das pessoas e seu próprio desespero, Mary Ann tenta pular da Ponte de Manhattan, apenas para ser impedida por Mike, um mecânico de garagem que a leva para seu modesto apartamento num porão próximo. No início apreciou a bondade de Mike, mas Mary Ann fica aterrorizada quando ele se recusa a deixá-la ir. Mike é realmente o salvador de Mary Ann - ou ele é apenas outro estuprador?
Vidas em Fuga
Editor
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier, um vagabundo de origens obscuras propenso a problemas, chega numa pequena cidade do Mississippi e consegue um emprego numa loja administrada por Lady Torrence cujo marido, Jabe M. Torrance, está morrendo de câncer. Apesar de estar em busca de uma vida simples e honesta, se vê envolvido com mulheres cheias de problemas. Val é perseguido por Carol Cutere, a enigmática vadia local de boa família.
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.
Middle of the Night
Editor
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
The Goddess
Editor
Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress' rise to stardom.
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 Homens e Uma Sentença
Editor
Um jovem porto-riquenho é acusado do brutal crime de ter matado o próprio pai. Quando ele vai a julgamento, doze jurados se reúnem para decidir a sentença, levando em conta que o réu deve ser considerado inocente até que se prove o contrário. Onze dos jurados têm plena certeza de que ele é culpado, e votam pela condenação, mas um jurado acha que é melhor investigar mais para que a sentença seja correta. Para isso ele terá que enfrentar diferentes interpretações dos fatos, e a má vontade dos outros jurados, que só querem ir logo para suas casas.
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.