First published by Little White Lies Jeremy Saulnier‘s second feature, the self-financed, lo-fi revenger Blue Ruin (2013), won him the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and a welter of critical plaudits. So when I met him during last year’s London Film Festival where he was promoting the ‘siegepunk’ thriller Green Room, I was curious to know…
First published by Real Crime Magazine Although his feature debut Murder Party (2007) built a cult following, writer/director Jeremy Saulnier only really attracted critical attention – and the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes – with his revenger Blue Ruin (2013). His third feature Green Room shares with Blue Ruin a colour-coded title, and the introduction of…
After writing and directing the self-financed, darkly comic cult film Murder Party (2007) and the slow-simmering, lo-fi revenger Blue Ruin (2013) – the latter being selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes where it won the FIPRESCI Prize – Jeremy Saulnier has now turned his craft to the genre-inflected siege thriller Green Room that…
Longer version of piece published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 The last time Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots shared the big screen was in Craig Gillespie’s over-the-top 2011 remake of cult vamp-camp hit Fright Night. Yet if Green Room, which reunites them, boasts…