Maestro Team on Crafting Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Biopic | NYFF61

At the North American premiere of Maestro, our Spotlight Gala selection, NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim discussed the film with screenwriter Josh Singer, producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, Leonard Bernstein’s daughter Jamie Bernstein, makeup designer Kazu Hiro, costume designer Mark Bridges, production designer Kevin Thompson, production sound mixer Steve Morrow, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the conducting consultant and conductor for new recordings and Music Director of The Metropolitan Opera.  A tour de force for director and star Bradley Cooper, Maestro dramatizes the public and private lives of legendary musician Leonard Bernstein with sensitivity, visual ingenuity, and symphonic splendor, depicting the complicated yet devoted decades-spanning relationship between Leonard and his wife Felicia (Carey Mulligan). A Netflix release, presented at NYFF in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. More info: Subscribe: