Drive unscripted ryan gosling, nicolas winding refn. All 10 nicolas winding refn movies ranked from worst to best posted on august 3, 2017 august 4, 2017 by max rumjanek when one thinks of contemporary successful mainstream movie directors, nicolas winding refns name might not immediately come to mind, with the likes of david fincher and christopher nolan taking up most of the spotlight and. One of the many pleasures of nicolas winding refns drive 2011 is that the shots feel both tightly composed and weirdly unpredictable. Drive is a 2011 american action drama film directed by danish filmmaker nicolas winding refn. Nicolas winding refn pop culture news, movie, tv, music. Everything you need to know about the amazon tv show the drive director has a new series for amazon starring miles teller and jena malone. It suggests that the female character is passive and represents the male characters weaknesses. Nicolas winding refns next movie will be about a mute spy. Nicolas winding refn drive and wonder woman interview.
Nicolas winding refn says there will be no drive sequel, but driver might spinoff into another movie. Find movie and film cast and crew information for drive 2011 nicolas winding refn on allmovie. He also won a best adapted screenplay award from the austin film critics association for his screenplay adaptation of nicolas winding refns drive 2011, based on the novel by james sallis. Sep 15, 2011 drive director nicolas winding refn talks flunking driving tests, practical effects, and wonder woman. Upgrade to a letterboxd pro account to add your favorite services to this listincluding any service and country pair listed on justwatchand to enable oneclick filtering by all your favorites. I dont think anyone would deny that drive was one of the years most distinctive films, and so heres a video interview with director nicolas winding refn that was just posted by dp30. If nicolas winding refn set out to make a name for himself with his first film, pusher, he succeeded. Hes picked an eclectic mix of seven films, a weird and wonderful curation where, in his words, theres something for the midnight section, something for the early morning intellectual and something for the.
Amazon on wednesday handed out a straighttoseries order to a 10. Cinematic masculine archetypes gangstas, thugs, vikings and. Aug 03, 2017 all 10 nicolas winding refn movies ranked from worst to best posted on august 3, 2017 august 4, 2017 by max rumjanek when one thinks of contemporary successful mainstream movie directors, nicolas winding refns name might not immediately come to mind, with the likes of david fincher and christopher nolan taking up most of the spotlight and. Following a lowlife drug peddler, frank kim bodnia, over the course of a week, things go from bad to worse. Jan 31, 2015 tony zhou delivers another quick bite of film education with this video on the interesting framing used by nicholas winding refn in drive. Nicolas winding refn dissects his bloody confection the. Refns film, for which he took home the cannes best director prize, brings fresh meaning to the term as it regards to narrative cinema. Nicolas winding refn drive is a movie about movies popmatters. No drive sequel but the driver character may return in a.
Nicolas winding refn says there will be no drive sequel, but. Ryan gosling is a steve mcqueenstyle knight in tarnished armor in nicolas winding refns drive, a slick urban fairy tale punctuated by shocking bursts of graphic violence, and distinguished by its stylized, yet uncompromisingly classical approach to material that could have easily become cliched and forgettable in the hands of a lesser filmmaker. You can watch this movie, see the differences with the book and still like it, and you can still admire the book as well. How the cinematography of drive utilized quadrants for. Writer, director, and producer nicolas winding refn was born in copenhagen, denmark, in 1970, to anders. Amazon on wednesday handed out a straighttoseries order to a 10episode crime series from the drive director. The hypermasculine characters that appear in refn s films tend to conform to more traditional notions of cinematic masculine archetypes, which often position masculinity. Sep 16, 2012 in this unscripted video, actor ryan gosling and director nicolas winding refn speak about their 2011 movie drive complete interview. Nicolas winding refn is a danish film director, screenwriter and producer. Movie talk drive nicolas winding refn 2011 ryan gosling, carey mulligan, ron perlman, etc valhalla is fucking awesome too. Thus, by making use of cinematic masculine archetypes to explore the negative consequences that result from conforming to hegemonic masculinity, the films of nicolas winding refn can be viewed as both a reflection and a critique of the culture of violent and aggressive masculinity that is perpetuated and essentialized by mass culture see. Nicolas winding refn sets amazon crime series too old to.
Drive director nicolas winding refn talks flunking driving tests, practical effects, and wonder woman. May 20, 2016 there was a brief window when it looked like nicolas winding refn was on the brink of becoming hollywoods next big thing. He is known for directing the pusher trilogy 19962005, the fictionalised biographical film bronson 2008, the adventure film valhalla rising 2009, the action drama film drive 2011, the crime film only god forgives 20, and the. Drive by nicolas winding refn nicolas winding refn, ryan. That was the only other successful movie that was a deep, dark world, but was transformed. Nicolas winding refns favorite films on notebook mubi. Yet, with the film so heavily centered on a gearhead, i found it incredible that the director, refn, not only doesnt have a drivers license, but failed. Drive nicolas winding refn 2011 ryan gosling, carey. Drive 2011 nicolas winding refn cast and crew allmovie. Mar 14, 2018 drive explores what drives human beings. Nicolas winding refns next movie will be about a mute spy fighting the yakuza. I thought a lot about scorpio rising by kenneth anger and a lot about pretty woman. The film stars ryan gosling as an unnamed hollywood stunt driver who.
All 10 nicolas winding refn movies ranked from worst to best. In this unscripted video, actor ryan gosling and director nicolas winding refn speak about their 2011 movie drive complete interview. With ultra cool sound and style and some beautiful performances, nicolas winding refns drive flashed us back to the eighties in a good way. Cinematic masculine archetypes gangstas, thugs, vikings. Nicolas winding refn, vinyl curator the new york times. Nicolas winding refn dissects his bloody confection the new. All 10 nicolas winding refn movies ranked from worst to. One theory of psychoanalysis and feminism was produced by laura mulvey.
Many theorists and scholars who have studied the psychoanalytic traits of film production and criticism. Nicolas winding refn drive and wonder woman interview collider. Writer, director, and producer nicolas winding refn was born in copenhagen, denmark, in 1970, to anders refn, a film director and editor, and vibeke winding nee tuxen, a cinematographer. Nicolas winding refn celebrity profile check out the latest nicolas winding refn photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Ryan goslings deathly silent superhero reminded us with how little the best actors really need to speak. In 2008, refn cofounded the copenhagenbased production company space rocket nation. Nicolas winding refn on drive, ryan goslings jacket. It gets even better, though, because the playlist has uncovered some. The hypermasculine characters that appear in refns films tend to conform to more traditional notions of cinematic masculine archetypes, which often position. Nicolas winding refn and the search for a real hero cinema scope. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film the wings of the dove, including an academy award for best writing adapted screenplay.
Antihero in antagonists universe drive 2011 poster. Nicolas winding refn on drive, ryan goslings jacket, and. Kim bodnia does a fantastic job as frank in the original but it is truly mads mikkelsen who shines as tonny, a low level drugdealer and criminal, in the streets of copenhagen in pusher 2. Understanding driver drive 2011 character analysis. Visceral and gutwrenching the pusher trilogy is a throwback to early martin scorseses gangster films. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to new york with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. With a director like nicolas winding refn valhalla rising it was to be expected that the movie would be visually compelling but not shy away from graphic scenes and strong violence. Female characters, after being told where they belong, reflect upon and change their place in the world. Nicolas winding refns 2011 acclaimed film drive has cinemas best, badass and more importantly morally ambiguous character. Disney reveals new mcu movie release date schedule. Nicolas winding refn is the latest auteur filmmaker to make the move to television. An interview with nicolas winding refn, the director of drive vice. There was a brief window when it looked like nicolas winding refn was on the brink of becoming hollywoods next big thing.
It gets even better, though, because the playlist has uncovered some details about. Spike lee, nicolas winding refn and the coens are set to join the ongoing exodus to tv, yet there are lessons to be learned from those who have gone before published. The story centres on a character known simply as driver ryan gosling. Remember when drive almost made nicolas winding refn. The voice in question belonged to nicolas winding refn, a selfprofessed fetish filmmaker from copenhagen whose pusher trilogy and recent englishlanguage films have developed a cult following among europeans and europhiles alike and earned him the audience of actor ryan gosling, who happened to flip on the radio in that moment of fateful.
Dec 10, 2011 nicolas winding refn on his vinyl releases, the neon demon, an upcoming poster book, and more duration. With ryan gosling, carey mulligan, bryan cranston, albert brooks. Jan 15, 2012 with a director like nicolas winding refn valhalla rising it was to be expected that the movie would be visually compelling but not shy away from graphic scenes and strong violence. Nicolas winding refn on his vinyl releases, the neon demon, an upcoming poster book, and more duration. Is it our nature ie who we are or our desires who we want to be. Remember when drives nicolas winding refn was poised to be. A striking image from the neon demon, so typical of nwrs cinema. In the middle of nicolas winding refns drive, a film punctuated by extreme flourishes of violence and vengeance, there is a period of peace. Nicolas winding refn talks about the possibility of a drive sequel. The circulating story of drive revolves around an awkward silence between two men broken by reo speedwagons i cant fight this feeling anymore, sung obnoxiously by a dane hopped up on flu medication. Drivers fine doing that, but things get complicated, as they things always tend to in films, when driver falls in love with his beautiful, nextdoor. Director nicolas winding refn says drive 2 is never going to happen but claims that the driver character could return in another movie. Given i just closed down comments on a post about camera technology, i felt the need to post something about movies writing, directing, anything other than cameras.
As for the film in question, he apparently wanted to create something spiritual for a change and going back to the roots of his nation. A mysterious hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor in this action drama. Nicolas winding refn shoots down rumors of a drive sequel. Nicolas winding refn has enjoyed enormous popularity in his home country denmark and i must admit as well his pushersbleeders drivers are at least good, if not great. To celebrate the release of the electric and divisive the neon demon weve handed over the reins of mubi in the united kingdom to the man of the moment, nicolas winding refn. Nicolas winding refn rotten tomatoes movie trailers.
No drive sequel but the driver character may return in a spinoff. Nicolas winding refn, vinyl curator the artist jay shaw created the cover art for a new reissue of basil poledouriss robocop soundtrack that is. The screenplay, written by hossein amini, is based on james sallis 2005 novel drive. The film stars ryan gosling as an unnamed hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver. The drivers not any better at talking with her than with her son, and so, after he learns her husband is in prison and tells her what he does i drive. I bring the singular, the narcissistic, the high art. One of the many pleasures of nicolas winding refns drive 2011 is that the shots feel. What are the core themes of nicolas winding refns film. May 20, 2015 nicolas winding refn, vinyl curator the artist jay shaw created the cover art for a new reissue of basil poledouriss robocop soundtrack that is part of milan records nicolas winding refn. Nicolas winding refn pop culture news, movie, tv, music and. Tony zhou delivers another quick bite of film education with this video on the interesting framing used by nicholas winding refn in drive.
The films of director nicolas winding refn are filled with complex but ultimately troubled men who find themselves navigating the tensions between rigid notions of hegemonic masculinity and rapidly changing gender norms. Ryan gosling, carey mulligan, bryan cranston, carey mulligan, ron perlman, oscar isaac kinostart deutschland. For cool people who like cool stuff, thats pretty good news all on its own. After seeing nicolas winding refns drive, however, one must reevaluate this clear over usage. Drive the book by james sallis 2006 and the movie by. He is known for directing the pusher trilogy, the fictionalised biographical film bronson, the adventure film valhalla rising, the action drama film drive, the crime film only god forgives, and the psychological horror film the neon demon. As we were wrapping up our conversation about his new film drive, he pressed me to tell him something i didnt like about it. Nicolas winding refns the neon demon was a nice return to form after the disappointing only god forgives, but it sounds like his next film will be a direct attempt to cater to fans of his phenomenally stylish 2011 thriller drive. Hes picked an eclectic mix of seven films, a weird and wonderful curation where, in his words, theres something for the midnight section, something for the early. The voice in question belonged to nicolas winding refn, a selfprofessed fetish filmmaker from copenhagen whose pusher trilogy and recent englishlanguage films have. With ultra cool sound and style and some beautiful performances, nicolas winding refn s drive flashed us back to the eighties in a good way. Nicolas winding refn is the first ive ever spoken to who actively solicited negative feedback about his movie.
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