F2K Ep. 26: Director Jeremy Saulnier - Musicians The Blair Bros

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Today, our first show to feature two segments, and three guest as we welcome film director Jeremy Saulnier and Will and Brooke Blair, known professionally as The Blair Brothers. The Brothers are childhood friends of Saulnier's who have scored all three of his features as well as writing and performing with two popular Philadelphia bands over the past decade and a half, the hip-hop group Infectious Organisms and the dreamy pop rock group East Hundred. The third Blair brother, Mason Blair, was the lead in Saulnier's 2014 breakthrough film BLUE RUIN playing the haunted murderer at its center and he has supporting roles in both Saulnier's first film, 2007's MURDER PARTY, a gore satire about young artists in Brooklyn as well as Saulnier's latest, THE GREEN ROOM. THE GREEN ROOM gives Saulnier's nuanced work a wide release for the first time as the film is being marketed to young audiences as a seat-clutching thriller. It succeeds admirably on that level, helped immeasurably by performances by a top-flight set of actors, including Anton Yelchin of Jim Jarmusch's vampire pic ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE and Chekov in the Star Trek reboots, Imogen Poots from Terrence Malick's most recent film KNIGHT OF CUPS, Alia Shawcat of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and the Starship commander himself, Patrick Stewart. We discuss Saulnier's body of work as well as Brooklyn today, film funding, what Saulnier's future looks like and what THE GREEN ROOM might be saying about America today.