Director Matthew Penn, of 'Law & Order' fame, finds his muse for his next film in Housatonic
GREAT BARRINGTON — Matthew Penn was driving through the village of Housatonic here about six months ago, as he has done 10,000 times before (by his count). But this time, the old village provided a fresh thought.
Penn, a director best known for his work on the television series “Law & Order,” got out of his car, walked around and took photos of the tiny, chimney-topped community — its crooked streets, modest, handsome homes, bedraggled former mill buildings and the river that fishtails through it all like a getaway car.
“Gosh,” he recalled thinking to himself, “no matter which way one would point the camera, it feels like it’s this wonderful set of this American town.”
