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“There Is a Bombardment of Violent Images in Our Lives”: Director Pascal Plante on His High-Tech Serial Killer Drama Red Rooms

Red Rooms

Real world inspirations and dark web folklore converge in Red Rooms, the third feature from Quebecois filmmaker Pascal Plante that has conjured much buzz since its U.S. theatrical release last month. Named after the fabled sinister backdrop of covertly circulated…  Read more

By Oct 9, 2024

“Day Car Work on Stage is Really Tough”: DP Larkin Seiple on Wolfs

On the set of Wolfs

It seems strange to call a $100-plus million dollar Brad Pitt and George Clooney movie a return to a director’s roots, but in a way that’s exactly what Wolfs is for Jon Watts. Like his breakthrough feature Cop Car—a spartan…  Read more

By Oct 4, 2024

“North Dakota is Trump Country Today”: John Hanson and Rob Nilsson on the 4K Restoration of Northern Lights

Northern Lights

It would be easy to call 1979 a red letter Cannes for New Hollywood: Apocalypse Now got Francis Ford Coppola his second Palme d’Or (split with Volker Schlöndorff for The Tin Drum), Terrence Malick received Best Director for Days of…  Read more

By Oct 2, 2024

Cap’n Crunch and the Serial Killer: John McNaughton on His Career

A man in a white undershirt stares into a grimy mirror.Michael Rooker in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Currently underway at the the Nitehawk Cinema in Prospect Park, “Portraits of Wild Things: The Films of John McNaughton” is a long overdue retrospective of the Chicago-based filmmaker of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). Like The Texas Chain…  Read more

By Oct 2, 2024


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