‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is one of the most exciting films of 2024. It took Jane Schoenbrun a lifetime to make it

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun walks along a path in Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery, looking for the pond they sat next to while working on the script for the film “I Saw the TV Glow.”

Cemeteries are not often the chosen location for interviews, but the place has special significance for Schönbrun. Built in the 1830s on a hill overlooking New York Harbor, Green-wood is where Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and Jean-Michel Basquiat are buried. But it was also a rural retreat for New Yorkers before parks were built. People used to picnic here.