Green-Wood Cemetery helped filmmaker write, finish `I Saw the TV Glow,’ psychological drama
May 9, 2024 Jake Coyle, Associated Press
Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun poses for a portrait in Green-Wood Cemetery on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, with a mausoleum in the background. Photos by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP
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GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film “I Saw the TV Glow.”
Cemeteries aren’t often the chosen location for interviews, but the place holds particular meaning to Schoenbrun. Built in the 1830s on a hillside overlooking New York Harbor, Green-Wood is where Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried. But it was also a rural sanctuary to New Yorkers before any parks were built. People used to picnic here.
“It’s amazing that it’s here,” Schoenbrun says, smiling beneath a cloudy spring sky. “The level of seclusion compared to everything surrounding it is so crazy.”