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“Lost River”
Some movies arrive in body bags, crushed under the weight of toxic advance word to which too many critics, eager to join the consensus pile-on, gleefully align themselves. Since its catastrophic reception at Cannes nearly a year ago, Ryan Gosling’s directorial...
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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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5 Films That Were DOA and Premiered on VOD
One of the advantages to being a well-known actor is that if you want to experiment behind the camera, studios are more than willing to take a chance on you. They’ll invest the money you need, hire the best crew they can, and do everything in their power to en...
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Warner Bros May Sell Ryan Gosling’s “Lost River” Following Critical Backlash
Following the world premiere a few days ago at Cannes, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River was met with polarizing reactions. I'll let Sam Adams from Criticwire catch you up on the initial reactions. Now Deadline reports that Warner Bros, who had broug...
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Seven Deadly Sins of Cinema
Kevin Spacey's immortal turn as the sin-obsessed John Doe took Seven and launched it into the stratosphere of crime classic. The way he dispatched with sinners so heartlessly and with conviction lead me to ponder what others movie characters would have drawn h...
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New Images From Ryan Gosling’s Directorial Debut “Lost River”
I've been a mighty big fan of Ryan Gosling's work as an actor for quite some time. He's reliable in going after interesting roles with visionary directors. Naturally when he announced he would be focusing on directing his first feature film I was on board. Pre...
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Birthday Wishes: Obligatory “Hey Girl, It’s Ryan Gosling’s Birthday”
Ryan Gosling, born 1980, is 33 today. A former Mouseketeer, the infamous star of The Notebook, the infamous star of the "Hey Girl" meme, co-owner of a Moroccan restaurant in L.A., member of the band Dead Man's Bones, the man everyone is in love with... it's so...
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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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Family and Fate Converge in the Intimate Epic The Place Beyond the Pines
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Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally-charged, uncomfortable-yet-beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind...
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