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Interview with Nicolas Winding Refn and Liv Corfixen of “My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn”
Nicolas Winding Refn makes hyper-sexed, ultra-violent films with a 1980s neon hue. Pusher, Bronson, and Drive all share a theme of masculine brutality. Audiences anticipated what would come after Drive, his most commercially and critically praised film to date...
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“My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn”
When news of Liv Corfixen’s making-of documentary on her husband Nicolas Winding Refn’s critically lambasted Only God Forgives landed, there was a smattering of discontent over whether or not Refn was “deserving” enough of a (second, following Phie Ambo’s 2006...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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Reevaluation: ‘Only God Forgives’ Isn’t A Perfect Film, But Its Dream Is Potent
Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest picture, Only God Forgives, could be referred to as ‘pure style,' in that it's obsessed with its own craft. Mannered and deliberate, Only God Forgives finds Refn wholeheartedly rejecting the docu-style of his early work and instea...
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Only God Forgives’ Is Like A Sleepwalker In Hell
Republished from our coverage of the Los Angeles film festival.
When I was a kid, there was this toy that was a kind of do-it-yourself aquarium that when you added a special powder mix to the water, it turned into a gel and made all the plastic dolphins, d...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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