Brianna Zigler, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedJanuary 8, 2020

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Brianna Zigler is a freelance film journalist based in the Philadelphia suburbs. Her work has appeared at Birth.Movies.Death, Slash Film, Bloody Disgusting, Film School Rejects, Girls On Tops, Paste, and more. She's a one-woman Movie 43 fan club.

The Endless Road

Brianna Zigler·

Issue 117: On The Road

Bookended by the post-industrial Midwestern hellscapes of Stranger Than Paradise and the twilight tourist Americana of Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law takes us to the bayous of New Orleans, where a pimp, a radio DJ, and an Italian traveler all wind up in jail.

Friends, Girlfriends, and Lovers

Brianna Zigler·

Issue 96: Best Laid Plans

In Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends, a best friendship is thrown to the margins as their paths to adulthood diverge.

I Think You Should Leave, or: How I Learned to Sate My Existential Dread with The Absurd

Brianna Zigler·

Issue 79: Best of 2019

Whenever I put on I Think You Should Leave, its bedlam feels like a weighted blanket—a brief and soothing respite from the horrible truths of the outside world.