New York, Nov. 11, 2014
Former mugg Fred Lombardi alerts us to a new feature film that is now in release in the States made by a Variety alumnus, albeit one whose tour of duty was only for a few months.
Nightcrawler, written and directed by Dan Gilroy and starring Jake Gyllenhall and Rene Russo (Dan’s wife) opened in New York on October 31. Dan, the son of the playwright (The Subject Was Roses) and film director (From Noon to Three) Frank Gilroy, worked briefly as a reporter on 46th Street, circa 1986.
I remember Dan as a good guy. He gave me a review copy of a book on John Ford that he had received and I wound up reviewing the book for Variety.
P.S. Fred recently received the longest in-depth critique of his book Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios from the Bright Lights Film Journal, reviewed by its editor Gary Morris. Bright Lights was begun as a printed publication back in the 1970s but, in a sign of the times, now appears only online.
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