{"id":14115,"date":"2014-04-24T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qgp.ykq.mybluehost.me\/cinephiled\/?p=14115"},"modified":"2014-04-24T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:27:58","slug":"lunch-jeremy-saulnier-macon-blair-blue-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinephiled.com\/lunch-jeremy-saulnier-macon-blair-blue-ruin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lunch with Jeremy Saulnier and Macon Blair of &#8216;Blue Ruin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Blue Ruin<\/em> may be one of the strongest American independent films of 2014: It&#8217;s a revenge saga, but it isn&#8217;t; the hero isn&#8217;t a terse one-man army but instead a shy, silent man driven to desperate, dangerous acts; it isn&#8217;t about swift, cinematic slaughters visited on the deserving but, instead, on the slow, arduous and awful work of killing. \u00a0Mr. Jeremy Saulnier (R) is the director, writer and cinematographer of\u00a0<em>Blue Ruin<\/em>; Macon Blair (L) plays Dwight, the film&#8217;s off-center center. We spoke with the two in Los Angeles about silence in filmmaking, happy accidents, location scouting and the journey of work and will that took\u00a0<em>Blue Ruin<\/em> from \u00a0a work-in-progress rejection by Sundance and the doubts that came in its wake to re-shooting, re-cutting and then a premiere at Cannes to rave reviews. <a href=\"https:\/\/qgp.ykq.mybluehost.me\/cinephiled\/sundance-review-blue-ruin-offers-revenge-served-cold-raw-bloody-beautiful\/\">My review of the film, at Cinephiled.com from Sundance 2014, can be found here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film can be found on Twitter @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@blueruinmovie\">BlueRuinMovie<\/a>, while Mr. Saulnier can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saulnier_jeremy\">@Saulnier_Jeremy<\/a> and Mr. Blair <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@maconblair\">@MaconBlair<\/a>\u00a0&#8230;\u00a0<em>Blue Ruin<\/em> is in select theaters and on VOD tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, The Lunch Podcast is available on iTunes; The Lunch Podcast is proudly sponsored by Snoot Films, makers of &#8220;Cheap Thrills&#8221; 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