General News: Producers Shoot Film in Newburgh
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| John Slattery plays a veteran who befriends Cardellini. |
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| Linda Cardellini stars in Return. |
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| The foyer of Holden Home is turned into the reception area where Cardellini first arrives. Seen here, Jane Livingston of St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, which owns the two buildings, and Robert Vitanza, a local realtor. |
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| The lighting crew prepares the scene in the kitchen. |
October 22, 2010
Don’t be surprised if you see groups of people carrying cameras, lights and other film equipment in the area this week. They are all part of the production of the independent feature film, Return, which is being shot in the greater Newburgh-Beacon area this month. On Monday you may have gotten a glimpse of the film crew at the LukOil station on Route 94 in Vails Gate, or filming along Route 9W near the Cornwall/New Windsor Line.
Most of the film’s Newburgh scenes, however, were shot inside the 19th-century homes known as the Holden Home, which until recently housed a senior citizen residence and are now for sale. The film producers kept the name Holden Home, but transformed it into a drug and alcohol recovery residence where the film’s leading actor, Linda Cardellini, ends up after her return from serving in Iraq.
Return Chronicles a Female Veteran's Difficult Adjustment Back Home
The film chronicles Cardellini’s character’s difficult attempt to assimilate back into her family and small-town life after being exposed to the wages of war.
On Tuesday morning, both Cardenelli, who first gained fame as the star of Freaks and Geeks, and John Slattery, whom viewers may know from the series Mad Men, were on set in the kitchen of the Holden Home. More than a dozen people set up for each scene, adding lights to create just the right ambience and tracking shots set for the cameras. Once that was done, the actors rehearsed their scenes a couple of times, then the cameras were rolling.
Holden Home Is Turned into a Residential Rehab Center in the Movie
After the kitchen scene, the crews planned to would move upstairs to one of the elegant front parlors of the Holden Home that had been transformed into a meeting salon for Alcoholics Anonymous. Producer Ben Howe said some of the set pieces had been found in Holden Home and added to the authenticity of the set. He pointed to pieces of paper and small debris that had been tossed over the carpet to give it a well-worn look.
Film producer Noah Harlin, a co-founder of 2.1 Films, which is producing the film, says that the film’s creator, director Liza Johnson, set the action in a depressed Ohio river town like the one she grew up and she found enough similar locations in the greater Beacon-Newburgh area to choose this location for the primary film shoots. Johnson, whose recent short films have dealt with her interest in atmosphere, landscape, and the transmission of feeling, can be expected to explore these elements in Newburgh as well.
Beacon-Newburgh Deemed Good Area for Filmmaking
Last week the crew shot in Beacon, in the ficticious home of the leading character. Cornwall-on-Hudson residents Jacqui Lunchik and her daughter, Sophie, were extras in one of the scenes shot there.
Harlin said that the Newburgh-Beacon proximity to New York was an appealing to the film producers, who could reduce costs by bringing crew members up from New York City on Metro North. Many of the producers and actors stay overnight in Newburgh.
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