There are quite a few movies I’m looking forward to this month, Birdman and Whiplash chief among them, but one film that has really shot up my list in recent weeks is Nightcrawler, directed by Dan Gilroy and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, and Riz Ahmed. I love a good crime thriller, and if Brad’s review is any indication, Nightcrawler may be right up my alley. He called the film “darkly satirical” and “frequently funny in a morally disturbed kind of way”, and that just whets my appetite even more.
Open Road Films, which is distributing Nightcrawler, released a new clip for the film today featuring Gyllenhaal as freelance crime journalist Lou Bloom. He enters a local news station attempting to sell footage to the station’s producer Nina (Russo), footage he’s certain she’ll be “very excited about.”
After several years of so-so performances, Gyllenhaal seems to be on a roll as of late, starring in End of Watch, Prisoners, and Enemy in the last two years, all of which are projects I really enjoyed him in. I personally love his performance in Zodiac, one of my very favorite films, and I’m excited he keeps attaching himself to roles that are a little ways off the beaten path.
Nightcrawler hits theaters October 31, and you can check out the new clip below to help tide you over until then.
