Written and directed by Dan Gilroy (with editing by his brother, John Gilroy) and featuring lurid cinematography from AFI Alum Robert Elswit (AFI Class of 1977), NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) was honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “NIGHTCRAWLER digs deep into the shadows of a news machine fueled by in the morbid maxim: ‘If it bleeds, it leads.’ Jake Gyllenhaal’s turn as opportunistic videographer Lou Bloom is both bold and bravura, his sociopathic stare masked only by the camera he hides behind. This modern noir from writer/director Dan Gilroy illustrates the fine line between breaking news and making news, and Rene Russo is formidable as both victim and accomplice to Bloom’s mesmerizing violation of all boundaries in pursuit of the dark side of an American dream.”
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