Synopsis
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the most overlooked and least understood crafts in filmmaking.
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Cast
- Deborah AquilaSelf
- Risa Bramon GarciaSelf
- Ellen ChenowethSelf
- Marion DoughertySelf
- Mike FentonSelf
- Nessa HyamsSelf
- Lora KennedySelf
- Nancy KlopperSelf
- Ronna KressSelf
- Ellen LewisSelf
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The Playlist
This film reveals not just how integral casting directors are to the creative process of filmmaking, but really how important they have been in shaping the history of American cinema. - 80
Village Voice
While Dougherty clearly had an almost eerie sense of how a particular actor might inhabit a part, this film also shows that she may have single-handedly created a filmmaking craft and then made it indispensable. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This is an illuminating close-up on a vital cog in the moviemaking machine and a fresh perspective on key episodes in the birth of the New Hollywood. - 70
Los Angeles Times
A vivid reminder of the hand-in-glove importance of right actor/right role — and the indispensability of those casting mavens who helped make movie history. Good stuff. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Casting By is also something of an elegy for a lost era, when talent, even at its rawest, stood far above prettiness as the primary reason for getting the part. - 60
New York Daily News
A look into one of the most invisible, and crucial, of cinematic disciplines. Using the seminal casting director Marion Dougherty as a subject, the film walks us through the intricacies of casting, with insight from Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford and others.