Green Room
2016
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Neil Kopp is an American film producer. His films include Old Joy (2006), Paranoid Park (2007), Green Room (2015), I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017), and Showing Up (2022). Life and career. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kopp attended the Vancouver Film School in British Columbia, Canada where he majored in Film Production.
- Music Plays A Central Role
- The Women in "Green Room" Are Amazing
- Stewart Is Terrifying
- It's An Oregon Film Through and Through
- Your Ears Are Going to Get A Workout
- Macon Blair Is A Star to Keep An Eye on
When the Ain’t Rights take the stage at the neo-Nazi venue, they’re clearly amping up for something big. Sam (Alia Shawkat) prods her cohorts, making sure they’re still on board, before the band breaks into a rendition of the Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks.” When asked the point of this display during the Q&A, the director said that he saw it as a sort...
If you watch the trailer, you can be forgiven for thinking that dudes are the stars of this film. And the beginning of the film seems to confirm that, focusing on the quiet, uncertain underdog, Pat (Yelchin). Yet, as the plot unfolds, it's consistently the women who are pushing for action and who make a stand against their captors. In one scene, Am...
The buttery smooth cadence Stewart’s become known for as an actor is here, but it takes on a new tone in his role as Darcy, the revered, Heisenberg-esque leader of the Neo-Nazis imprisoning the band. It’s like Capt. Picard has gone to the dark side: instead of imploring followers to seek out new life, he’s commanding them to take it. As I overheard...
"Portland is the only place we could make this movie," Saulnier said, adding that it had the geographic juxtaposition of settings that makes the film work: the contrast of the stuffy, oppressive green room with the expansive wilds of the state.
With such a visually striking film, it may seem odd to narrow in on the audio, but it's truly phenomenal. The feedback from a microphone, the claustrophobic score, the distant bark of a dog — "Green Room" is a story you can follow with your eyes closed and still find yourself gripping the edge of your seat. The importance of the audio is nowhere mo...
Blair, a childhood friend of Saulnier who starred in “Blue Ruin,” plays Darcy's number two, Gabe. But rather than embrace the one-dimensional, henchman-style bad-guy that his character could have been, Blair subtly shapes a complex, deeply human character. But the reason you should be paying attention is that he’s shooting his directorial debut in ...
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Interiors spoke with Neil Kopp about his career, his life in Portland, and what he does at 6am every morning. INT: In the past few years, I've realized more and more often that every time your name comes up on the screen, it's a name that I trust. Can you talk about how you started in the industry? Did you grow up around film?
Feb 27, 2020 · While co-producing and acting in Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room in 2014, Blair started to talk with producers Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani of Portland-based production company Film Science about what a film of his own might look like. Kopp and Savjani were encouraging, and within months, Blair sat down to write his nurse character into a ...
Apr 23, 2021 · Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Producers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington, Dany Wolf. Minari. Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina...
Bio. Neil Kopp is a film producer based in Portland, Oregon, where he was born and raised. Kopp was the recipient of the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards’ Producers Award. Kopp is the producer of Kelly Reichardt’s two Portland-based features Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, and Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park.
Portland-based producer Neil Kopp is responsible for generating some of the best independent films of recent years, including Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, and Certain Women, which premiered in Sundance in January 2016.
