Interview - S. Craig Zahler on Dragged Across Concrete

In a special interview episode, we speak with writer-director S. Craig Zahler of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. His new drama is a tense, satisfying film that features everything that one could expect from an S. Craig Zahler film—vivid and unsparingly complex characters; a pup throwback story with a modern texture; patient, mature pacing; and jazz-rhythm dialogue that’s equal parts profanity and profundity. The performances are uniformly excellent. The soundtrack by The O’Jays layers on a veil of cool that helps the violence and ugliness go down smooth. All-in-all, another home run by perhaps the greatest modern practitioner of the slow-burn thriller. We also discuss the film at length in episode 338, available on this feed.