Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultraviolent collaboration with Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives, has taken the top prize at the 2013 Sydney Film Festival. Jury president Hugo Weaving announced the Official Competition winner on the closing night of the fest, declaring it “a visually mesmerizing and disturbing film which polarised our opinions.” Only God Forgives trumped 11 other movies for […]
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Sydney Film Festival – Only God Forgives review
June 16, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo June 16, 2013 If a boy’s best friend truly is his mother, this guy is seriously screwed. In Only God Forgives, Nicolas Winding Refn’s laboriously paced follow-up to Drive, Ryan Gosling plays Julian, a drug-dealer based in Bangkok, seemingly hiding out from his American tiger mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas). When his brother Billy is brutally murdered, Crystal comes […]
Continue readingSoderbergh, Polanski, Payne, and the Coens compete at 66th Cannes Film Festival
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song will face off against the latest efforts by Roman Polanski, Asghar Farhadi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, and the Coen brothers at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The lineup reveals which pictures will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, collected last year by Michael Haneke’s Amour. Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling exits Logan’s Run remake
October 29, 2012 1 Comment
Ryan Gosling chooses not to go to carousel and be renewed as he bows out of the Logan’s Run remake, according to Variety’s Justin Kroll. The long-awaited remake had Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Gosling on board earlier this year, but now a busy workload is believed to be the reason for Gosling’s […]
Continue readingThe driver from Drive may return, just not in Drive 2
October 10, 2012 0 Comments
Drive author James Sallis suggested earlier in the year that a film sequel was being developed based on his own literary follow-up, Driven. Needless to say, everyone began to furiously collate all the French electro they could find for an anticipatory and celebratory iTunes playlist. Director Nicolas Winding Refn has since told The Evening Standard that another Drive movie “is never […]
Continue readingArmie Hammer could be the new Batman (again)
October 10, 2012 0 Comments
As exclusively reported in Moviehole, Armie Hammer may don Batman’s cape in an upcoming Justice League film. Previously nabbing the role of Batman in George Miller’s Justice League Of America, a doomed production that fell apart literally days before shooting in 2007, Hammer apparently is up again for the role in another take on the […]
Continue readingNicolas Winding Refn working on Barbarella TV series
June 21, 2012 0 Comments
Nicolas Winding Refn has long wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie, so maybe this is the next best thing? According to Deadline, the Drive director is working with Gaumont International Television and Martha De Laurentiis to bring Barbarella to the small screen. Created by Jean-Claude Forest in the comics, the sci-fi sex-kitten was made iconic by Jane Fonda in the […]
Continue readingDrive sequel in the works?
June 5, 2012 0 Comments
File this one under, ‘probably not.’ Still, it’s fun to imagine! James Sallis, author of the novel upon which Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive was based, has written a sequel entitled Driven. Speaking with The Independent, Sallis claims his follow-up might indeed be headed to the big screen, claiming “they” (Refn? Star Ryan Gosling? Random producers?) “love the book.” Driven takes place seven […]
Continue readingNicolas Winding Refn takes on The Killing Game
June 1, 2012 0 Comments
Drive and Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn might direct an adaptation of the graphic novel Button Man: The Killing Game for DreamWorks. According to Deadline, the Danish filmmaker is in talks with the studio to bring John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s tale to the big screen. The Killing Game concerns assassin Harry Exton, who is hired by a millionaire to compete against […]
Continue readingInterview: Albert Brooks (Drive)
March 12, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Albert Brooks (Drive). By Simon Miraudo. Albert Brooks’ chilling performance in Drive was one of the breakout turns of last year; not bad for an Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director with a career that spans four decades. Although we know him best from his witty supporting performances in Broadcast News, Taxi Driver and Out of Sight, his directorial efforts Defending […]
Continue readingInterview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad)
March 9, 2012 0 Comments
Interview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad). By Simon Miraudo. Bryan Cranston is enjoying something of a career renaissance, thanks to his iconic turn in TV’s Breaking Bad (it may be a little early to describe his performance as ‘iconic’, but hey, we’re calling it). As chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, Cranston has earned three consecutive Emmys as […]
Continue readingInterview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad)
October 27, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Breaking Bad). By Simon Miraudo. Bryan Cranston is enjoying something of a career renaissance, thanks to his iconic turn in TV’s Breaking Bad (it may be a little early to describe his performance as ‘iconic’, but hey, we’re calling it). As chemistry-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White, Cranston has earned three consecutive Emmys as […]
Continue readingInterview: Albert Brooks (Drive)
October 25, 2011 0 Comments
Interview: Albert Brooks (Drive). By Simon Miraudo. Albert Brooks’ chilling performance in Drive is one of the breakout turns of the year; not bad for an Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director with a career that spans four decades. Although we know him best from his witty supporting performances in Broadcast News, Taxi Driver and Out of Sight, his directorial efforts […]
Continue readingRuns like a dream – Drive review
October 25, 2011 0 Comments
Drive – Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Rated MA. Originally published August 7, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. This review was first run during the Melbourne International Film Festival. Drive opens in Australian cinemas October 27, 2011. The best word to describe Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive – based on James Sallis’ […]
Continue readingWoman sues over misleading Drive trailer
October 10, 2011 7 Comments
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, ‘this is nothing like the trailer promised!’? Then did you quickly get over it and carry on living your life? Not Michigan woman Sarah Deming! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deming has filed a lawsuit against distributor Film District over their “misleading” trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s […]
Continue readingDie Hard 5 to be directed by Max Payne’s John Moore
September 1, 2011 1 Comment
After almost six months of searching, 20th Century Fox and Bruce Willis have settled on a director for Die Hard 5: John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines). According to Deadline, Moore is in final negotiations to come on board. He will replace previously hired helmer Noam Murro, who moved on to the 300 spin-off […]
Continue readingPoster and Trailer Debut: Drive
August 15, 2011 0 Comments
Start your engines Gosling fans. A new poster and trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s high octane drama Drive have been released. Slashfilm wisely points out the possibility of overhyping this punchy film – which we caught at the Melbourne International Film Festival – but it deserves all of the praise being heaped on it. Drive […]
Continue readingNicolas Winding Refn wants Christina Hendricks for Wonder Woman
June 21, 2011 0 Comments
Nicolas Winding Refn – the acclaimed director of the Pusher trilogy, Bronson and Cannes hit Drive – has, weirdly, long wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie. And as he told Vulture at the U.S. premiere of Drive, he wants Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks to star in it. Last year he told Movieline, “Wonder Woman, […]
Continue readingThe Tree of Life takes top prize at Cannes
May 23, 2011 0 Comments
Although Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life was met with a few boos following its debut screening at Cannes, the jury charged with handing out the festival’s top awards were more receptive, bestowing upon it the prestigious Palme d’Or for Best Film. At a press conference following this year’s awards ceremony, chair Robert De Niro […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling in Drive is fast(er) and furious(er)
May 9, 2011 0 Comments
Back in January we named Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive the “16th most exciting film of 2011” based on its stellar cast alone. Now, having seen the first bit of footage from the picture, we’ll admit that we probably underestimated its potential awesomeness. Drive stars Gosling as a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for […]
Continue reading2011 Cannes lineup announced!
April 15, 2011 2 Comments
A bunch of exciting, controversial and most-likely confounding feature films will compete for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The competition lineup was announced yesterday, confirming rumours that Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia would make their debut on The Croisette. Other big names debuting their […]
Continue readingChristina Hendricks joins Drive
September 10, 2010 0 Comments
Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Drive is gearing up for production, and his increasingly impressive cast is beginning to rival Inception‘s “dream team” of actors. Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks is the newest addition to the action thriller. She joins Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks and Oscar Isaac. The news of Hendricks’ involvement comes from […]
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