Dark Was the Night
Scary Movies 8
October 31 - November 6, 2014
Q&A with director Jack Heller and actors Kevin Durand and Sabina Gadecki!
The quiet lives of a sheriff (The Strain’s Kevin Durand—finally a leading man!) and his deputy (Lukas Haas) are put to the test when an ancient creature begins preying on the local livestock and the small logging town’s human residents in this wholly entertaining old-school monster movie.
Q&A with director Jack Heller and actors Kevin Durand and Sabina Gadecki!
A refreshingly old-school monster movie, Jack Heller’s sophomore feature is character-driven, beautifully framed and shot (by Ryan Samul, Jim Mickle’s regular DP), and wholly entertaining. The main characters, sheriff Paul Shields (The Strain’s Kevin Durand—finally a leading man!) and his deputy, Donny Saunders (Lukas Haas), are likable and broody as befits their traumatic backstories—but their quiet, small-town lives are put to the test when an ancient creature, apparently driven out of its forest habitat by the activities of a logging company, begins preying on the local livestock as well as its human residents. The panicked townspeople must band together to battle the beast, and face their own demons in the process.
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Rose of Nevada Director Mark Jenkin on His New Sci-Fi Tinged Tale
On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin discusses his sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration.
Kamal Aljafari on With Hasan in Gaza and ‘The Camera of the Dispossessed’
Our 63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation with With Hasan in Gaza director Kamal Aljafari, moderated by Film Comment editor Devika Girish.
Lucrecia Martel on Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), the Filmmaker’s First Feature Documentary
On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) director Lucrecia Martel discusses her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary.
