Free screening tonight: Green Room

Originally Posted on Emerald Media via UWIRE

Life as a student can be rough.

Between midterms, finals, closing shifts and hangovers, there are a few precious perks to being in college. But fret not, weary movie lovers. As a young adult between the ages of 18 and 23, your brain is considered prime real estate by all manner of film studios. So when a hot new release is about to hit cinemas nationwide, Hollywood will provide free screenings for college students.

This Thursday, April 7, University of Oregon students can be treated to a free screening of Jeremy Saulner’s Green Room, plus an exclusive Q&A with the director and producer. The screening will start at 6:30 p.m. at Lawrence 177, with doors opening at 6 p.m.

Green Room is Saulner’s second feature film after the critically beloved Blue Ruin (2013). His eye for brutally realistic violence is likely to be on full display in this dark rural thriller. Set in a backwoods nightclub, the film follows a punk band who find themselves witness to a grisly murder. As the last remaining evidence of the crime, a gang of white supremacists begin to surround the band – who have holed up in the club’s green room. Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), Ali Shawkat (Arrested Development) and Imogen Poots (V for Vendetta) star as The Ain’t Rights, who are forced to fight their way to safety in the Pacific Northwest-set, hyper-violent thriller. Patrick Stewart also makes his presence known as the gang leader seeking to clean the slate.

A Q&A session with writer-director Jeremy Saulner and producer Neil Kopp will begin at 8 p.m. UO ID is required for admittance, and seating is first-come, first-served. Arrive early to ensure a seat for what looks to be one of 2016’s most nerve-rattling films.

Green Room is rated R for “strong brutal graphic violence, gory images, language and some drug content.”

 

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