Supporting the old adage, violence begets violence, blue ruin is a film that explores the cost of revenge for both those seeking bloody retribution and the people who ultimately suffer. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Blue ruin is a 20 american thriller film written and directed by jeremy saulnier and starring macon blair. One morning after drinking heavy in the night every inch of my poor bones seemed to ache and moan in wait cause all our troubles come tomorrow. Everything you need to know about blue ruin movie 2014. Mandolin orange perform blue ruin from their 2015 album such jubilee emily frantz guitar, vocals andrew marlin guitar, vocals recorded in beehive productions studio in. I loved blue ruin, but jesus christ was the rover ever painful to watch. Photographed on a canon c300 ambient light only during the course of a three day location scout throughout delaware and virginia for. Blue ruin is a classic american revenge story that recently won the fipresci international critics prize at the cannes film festival where it screened in the directors fortnight. The film premiered at the cannes film festival as part of the directors fortnight section on may 17, 20, where it won the fipresci prize. The narrative is a crime movie or thriller, centred on dwight macon blair, a vagrant living in his old rusty car in america even vagrants have cars. With macon blair, devin ratray, amy hargreaves, kevin kolack. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own. Apr 25, 2014 blue ruin for cineastes of a certain age, think back to when you saw blood simple in 1984 or pulp fiction in 1994.
Apr 30, 2014 blue ruin is a gorgeously shot, welloiled machine thats moody, spare and sore in the american sense. A oneofakind blue ruin guitar this is a stratocaster electric sixstring artistically customized in the style of the film by craftsman and blue ruin technical consultant bill blair. Blue ruin for cineastes of a certain age, think back to when you saw blood simple in 1984 or pulp fiction in 1994. A drifters unfolding plan to right a family wrong draws sympathetic portraits of its antiheroes, while. One gory death leads to more, but saulniers story is of a simplehearted, at times simplemindedseeming.
Jeremy saulnier has drawn comparisons with the coens for his dark, subversive revenge thriller. A dark and moody revenge thriller, blue ruin is not your typical crowdfunded film. In the movie surrogates, filmed in and around boston, massachusetts, fbi agents bruce willis and radha mitchell investigate the mysterious murder. Their third studio album, im gonna smile december 1990, was nominated for best independent release at the aria music awards of 1991. Schoolmates jeremy saulnier and macon blair make blue ruin.
Marina and the diamonds blue official music video youtube. Saulnier funded production on the film through a successful kickstarter campaign, which called the perfect example of what crowdfunding. Dwight is a beach vagrant who leads a seemingly quiet life, living out of his rundown car. Apr 24, 2014 blue ruin is in select theatres april 25. Director jeremy saulnier retraces his path to winning the indie film lotto with his sleek bullet of a revenge flick, blue ruin. For this project, the 2014 book of the same name by william giraldi served as a story template. A lean and suspenseful genre piece that follows a bloody trail of vengeance to its cruel, absurd and logical. Blue web series is an american drama web series created by rodrigo garcia and starring julia stiles. Blue ruin is a revenge thriller film directed by jeremy saulnier. I could have missed something though, if you wanted to elaborate on what you liked about it. Patrons were psyched to find bono and u2 at hells kitchen bar, blue ruin, where one grammer did a shot with bono following the bands music video shoot at the bar. The lead actor macon blair is saulniers childhood friend and the important showdown is said to have filmed in saulnier mothers house. Blue ruin filmed for 30 days in four states, largely employing locations that saulnier had free access to through family connections, including his childhood home in alexandria, virginia, where. Nb i used a dash of egg white as i thought the white foam would complement the pale blue but its entirely optional.
Information and translations of blue ruin in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. A bloody, brilliant revenge thriller a likable loner goes on a rampage in jeremy saulniers blue ruin, an unforgettable yarn of crime and punishment. On may 1st of 2018, blue passed 10 million youtube views. But as blue ruin reminds us, it can always use more filmmakers of saulniers resourcefulness, sensitivity and quiet assurance. Jeremy saulnier makes a striking debut that brings to mind blood simple and pulp fiction. Does his sister just never go back to her house or did william go to pittsburgh to finish the job. Jeremy saulniers sophomore feature following in the footsteps of his underrated dark comedy, murder party is a film that manages to smartly subvert and reinforce the conventions of the revenge fantasy movie.
Blue ruin 20 out of 5 this film is stripped down to its bare essentials. Macon blair, devin ratray, amy hargreaves, kevin kolack, eve plumb, david w. Currently, as of march 2020, the blue music video has over 14 millions views. Blue ruin stars macon blair as a man with a vendetta. The minimalism in blue ruin is a pretty stark contrast to what i felt was a bloated, boring, and drawn out film. Blue ruin is a classic american revenge story that recently won the fipresci international critics prize at the cannes film festival where it screened. The group had released three other studio albums, such sweet thunder january 1986, flame may 1987 and tattoo tears 1993, before disbanding in 1995. The band started as and instrumental band with roots in classic and alternative rock, jazz and blues.
The closing credits show that blue ruin is dedicated to kathryn stephens, a longtime employee of the virginia film office. Blue ruin were an australian blues rock band, which started as scrap museum in 1984. May 12, 2017 the blue lagoon does a fantastic job at informing their guests about the water vs. Blue ruin eschews these classic stereotypes, offering instead a cast of unfamiliar faces, to me, anyway in unknown locations, looking like real people, minus the buff bodied stars, artificially whitened teeth, and worldweary smarts that have become so ubiquitous, to be almost a requirement. Apr 20, 2014 blue ruin contains a notable number of scenes where our endangered hero puts down his weapon, going unarmed at times when doing so might seem suicidally stupid. Really cool movie though, very much enjoyed its stripped down style, pacing and storytelling methods. Brilliantly shot and staged by directorcinematographer jeremy saulnier who also wrote the script, the film locates the sweet spot between poised art cinema and exploitationflick pandering and hits it over and over again. For those who could stomach the violent shocks of graphic carnage that were usually offset by sardonic humor, it felt exhilaratingly cathartic to gasp in horror and then laugh nervously at the outlandish amount of bodily. It was funded through a successful kickstarter campaign and had premiere at 20 cannes film festival as part of the directors fortnight section. Macon blair stars as dwight, a homeless drifter whose parents were murdered when he was. One of the establishing shots of an oceanside boardwalk was filmed in rehoboth. Blue ruin on dvd july 22, 2014 starring macon blair, devin ratray, amy hargreaves, kevin kolack.
Blue ruin is a reference to the blue and ruined pontiac, the carhome of dwight. Bbcbacked gang film blue story banned from vue cinemas after. However there is no evidence that the kind or amount of light coming from computer screens is damaging to the eyes. My initial attempts to diminish or deny this reality seemed more and more like false modesty as the fairytale unfolded. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Blue ruin is a brilliant, grounded deconstruction of the. Obviously, i really didnt get much enjoyment from the rover.
Blue ruin is not a truly organic story in terms of originality, but its brutal take on revenge and macon blairs mesmerising performance makes it one of the years best films that noone will. Supporting the old adage, violence begets violence, blue ruin is a film that explores the cost of revenge for both those seeking bloody retribution and the people who. Apr 27, 2017 the problems supposedly linked to blue light range from dry eyes to digital eye strain, sleep cycle disruption and even macular degeneration, which causes people to lose some or all of their central vision. No other sex tube is more popular and features more blue ruin scenes than pornhub. Apr 23, 2014 prologue ive come to embrace the story of blue ruin as one of smashing success. U2 takes shots with fans at blue ruin in hells kitchen. Behind this netflix movie are director jeremy saulnier and writer macon blair, the makers of the indie cult hits green room and blue ruin. When saulnier and blue ruins star, macon blair, sat down to watch the film at the packed theatre croisette, it was the first time theyd seen. Jun 16, 2015 blue ruin is a brilliant, grounded deconstruction of the standard revenge thriller the revenge genre has experienced a small renaissance of late with films like taken and john wick portraying purposeful and expert killers running roughshod through those who have wronged them in some way. Already embraced by fanboys and critics on the film festival circuit, the movie evokes the bleak, deadpan humor of the coen brothers and the. A sticky thriller about a vagrant blunderingly avenging. Blair, a childhood friend of saulnier who starred in blue ruin, plays darcys number two, gabe. A mysterious outsiders quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Following the additions of michael delouker on drums and adam thomas on lead vocals the band was named blue ruin. It originally aired on the wigs channel on youtube but eventually streamed on hulu, and wigs own website for its third season, which takes the form of four longform episodes lasting 4060 minutes rather than the shorter episodes of the. Mar 08, 2015 a music video for blue was released on july 16, 2015. Its in this way that blue ruin ends up within the broad realm of movies which, despite wellintentioned efforts to make a statement on violence, end up themselves consumed by the power of that force. Blue ruin eschews these classic stereotypes, offering instead a cast of unfamiliar faces, to me, anyway in unknown locations, looking like real people, minus the buff bodied stars, artificially whitened teeth, and worldweary smarts that have become so ubiquitous, to be almost a. Plus, the thank you, the updates, the score, the bluray, the mp shirt, and the poster less. The film follows a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of. Blue ruin is a 2014 independent thriller directed by jeremy saulnier and starring macon blair.
Blue ruin eschews these classic stereotypes, offering instead a cast of unfamiliar faces, to me, anyway in unknown locations, looking like real people, minus the buff bodied stars, artificially whitened teeth, and worldweary smarts that have become. The most obvious interest in blue ruin is that it has a generic storyline, while being filmed in a largely realist way. The result of a successful kickstarter campaign, this. Blue ruin is a hard rock band from long island, new york.
But when a policewoman pulls him aside one day to inform him the man who murdered his parents has been released, dwights life is turned upside down again. It features a pareddown premise, yet what it lacks in surprises it makes up for in tension and efficiency. John wick chapter 2 was filmed basically in brooklyn and manhattan areas of new york, in rome italy and montreal canada. We sold our film to radiustwc two hours after its cannes premiere. Blue ruin is a classic american revenge story that recently won the fipresci international critics prize at the cannes film festival where it screened in the. Sep 07, 2017 patrons were psyched to find bono and u2 at hells kitchen bar, blue ruin, where one grammer did a shot with bono following the bands music video shoot at the bar. Jeremy saulniers film blue ruin stars his friend macon blair as a nearsilent, homeless shadow awakened to a longpercolating vengeance. Blue ruin is a gorgeously shot, welloiled machine thats moody, spare and sore in the american sense. It depicts dolleys iconic and instantly recognizable lighted sign, dolleys is known locally for their saltwater taffy and long history on the. One of the establishing shots of an oceanside boardwalk was filmed in rehoboth beach, delaware. Thompson writer director jeremy saulnier has been crafting indie films on a shoe string budget for quite some time, but like most talented. All 36 songs from the blue ruin 20 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Here is a complete compilation of the locations and sets featured in this symphony of violence. Mar 05, 2016 blue ruin is a tiny independent film produced on a kickstarter fund, but is a fascinating, visceral revenge movie that has never left my conscience from the moment i first saw it.
This connects to the wobbly hesitance of the film, which wants to be about more than guns and the men who wield them, but is unsure of how to make that push, trapped inside a routine. Blue ruin is what would happen if the characters in saulniers favorite escapist childhood films. The bloody fingerprints of quentin tarantino and the coen brothersamong other violenceprone auteursare smeared all over his tidy and tautlytold blue ruin, a lowbudget revenge thriller that has been steadily gaining a cult rep on the film festival circuit since showing last year at cannes. As much as the film may want to convey a negative impression of its ensuing bloodshed, through grubby public bathroom stabbings and unglamorous shootouts, it. Nov 25, 2019 blue story, a bbcbacked gang film, has been banned from vue cinemas following 25 significant incidents at 16 cinemas on the day it was released, including a mass brawl involving youths armed. Sep 15, 2014 a oneofakind blue ruin guitar this is a stratocaster electric sixstring artistically customized in the style of the film by craftsman and blue ruin technical consultant bill blair. Jeremy saulnier elevates the horror genre with new film blue ruin.
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