Is there not yet a thread for DRIVE, the forthcoming Ryan Gosling vehicle (geddit)?

this was...OK. Somewhat disappointing. A little too cool/coy for its own good.

Glenn Kenny kicked up a mild kerfuffle along those lines:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/09/is-there-anything-nicolas-winding-refn-cant-do.html

Dumb.

Hoberman likes.

loved bronson, pumped as all get out for this

what did you think of valhalla rising?

and yeah bronson was super impressive

it was cool and very silly imo xp

spoiler alert on that hoberman review :/

He also told the story of getting Ryan Gosling to do the film, for which he didn’t yet have the story. They went to dinner, and Winding-Refn, who doesn’t drive, asked Gosling to drive him home.

“There was this awkward silence between us. Ryan turns on the radio. It’s soft rock -- REO Speedwagon, ‘I can’t fight this feeling.’ And I start to cry. Literally. Tears falling down my cheek.

“Ryan is thinking how the fuck do I get him out of my car? And I start singing the song. It’s foreplay. I’m really into it. I slapped my knee. And turned to Ryan in car, and I scream in his face, music so loud -- I got it!

“It’s a man driving around in a car at night listening to music, that’s his emotional release.”

That became the film, "Drive," which opens in the fall.

what the fuck

film directors say the dumbest shit, all the time

someone should re-edit that clip cankles posted with can't fight this feeling as the soundtrack

“There was this awkward silence between us. Ryan turns on the radio. It’s soft rock -- REO Speedwagon, ‘I can’t fight this feeling.’ And I start to cry. Literally. Tears falling down my cheek.

“Ryan is thinking how the fuck do I get him out of my car? And I start singing the song. It’s foreplay. I’m really into it. I slapped my knee. And turned to Ryan in car, and I scream in his face, music so loud -- I got it!

Worst date ever.

No date with Gosling can be the worst ever.

That became the film, "Drive," which opens in the fall.

http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/old_pictures/paul_harvey3.jpg

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/328765/thumbs/s-GOSLING-WINDING-REFN-large300.jpg

Anyone not wish they were the guy on the right? If so, sit down and shut up.

will see this because the soundtrack includes Desire and the Chromatics

any idea what drugs these guys are on in this cannes interview?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2011/may/22/cannes-film-festival-ryan-gosling

alcohol

danish people are so weird

you expect them to be really normal and easygoing cause their country is like social democracy most advanced society on planet type shit, but theyre just weirdos

swedes too

i love refn so i expect to love this as well

if i was giving refn a life home and he started crying when reo speedwagon came on, i don't know what i'd do.

OK, didn't realize til skimming the Scott and Edelstein pans what a gorefest this is. Planning to skip.

Already weeping at the uninformed interjections you'll be slipping into the detritus thread in three months' time.

Oops, I meant detrius.

Not gonna blackmail me into any more inglourious timewasters, BUB!

(I let Ed have it for that I'm Not There joke yesterday, I meant to CC you)

Well you can spend your time during next year's Oscarcast whacking off to your Criterion DVD of Design for Living then.

And not watching horror movies c. 2000-2011

I don't even like that one, particularly. (Gary Cooper) xp

whacking off to Gary Cooper is a horror movie.

also, I only behave that way at parties if they're in the basement.

People actually watch Noel Coward movies at parties now and not just in the shame of their lame solitude? I feel ill; need to go watch A Serbian Film now to get my equilibrium back.

in which Eric serves

damn, I hope you used better lines than this on TV's Frank!

The Lubitch film of DoL, anecdotally, used one line of dialogue from the Coward play.

in which Eric serves

You got Ernst'd

I do like it when Cooper stabs Fredric March in the eye with a fork (Oscarworthy)

I'd like that irl

really dark, too gory 4 sure but like bronson there'er some great scenes & refn is v skilled @ building tension. sound design & soundtrack are a+

he does appear to like his monotonous sequencers doesn't he

this will be my first time seeing a refn film (also never watched carey mulligan or gosling in anything)

also really want to see brooks be scary

On the phone from his home in Copenhagen, Drive director Refn says he "always wanted" Brooks for the role, but he still asked that the actor make his case for the part in person.

"There are certain things that I've wanted to do," Brooks says. "And one of them is to play a guy that's that guy — I don't like to call him a bad guy. I went to see Nicolas. [I said], 'You can go with the six people that are the bad guys in every movie ever made' — and I knew he wanted to hear this, because he asked me to come to his house — 'But, to me, it's more exciting when I don't know that I know everything that's going to happen when a guy comes on-screen.'

"So Nicolas liked that, and he said, 'You know, when I was a young man, I watched that movie Lost in America and I saw you yelling at your wife, and it scared the hell out of me.' And I said, 'OK, that's good.'"

"Albert was like a volcano of emotions," Refn remembers, laughing. "There was something really unique — and threatening. I felt that this guy, eventually, he will kill somebody — so let's make it in a movie."

^^^good idea for dark sequel to lost in america

Projecting a #3 for the weekend at 11m. I think a midnight screening will be empty enough for me to see it tonight, after roadworks held me up in traffic and I missed an earlier screening.

yeah i was thinking abt just going to see this tonight since im feeling to sick to go out properly

I like the thought of Morbs trying to find reasons not to see a movie and scrolling through the RT "Top Critics" section and finding the 2 Splats as enough justification to skip.

Nicolas Winding Refn sought advice from Gaspar Noé on how to make brutal and realistic facial damage.

wtg Nick

that a movie is made for nerds who fetishize 'hypermasculine' slick violence is usu reason enough, Guk

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/ryan-gosling-wont-eat-his-cereal-is-basically-the-best-thing

http://www.techyville.com/2013/08/news/police-videotaped-planting-crack-cocaine-in-a-mans-store-so-they-could-arrest-him/

A shocking video is now making its way around the Internet. The video involves a man who was under police suspicion for selling drugs, even though he wasn’t selling anything illegal. The man, Donald Andrews Jr., ran a smoke shop in Schenectady County, New York.

The title is the English meaning of the city of Schenectady, New York, which is derived loosely from a Mohawk word for "place beyond the pine plains."[6][7]

movie was good, a plot was a little too cute by half but i dug the acting, the pacing, the structure

i dug the modern day part of it because of how nicely observed the interactions between the two kids was - felt p true to how teenage boys talk to each other

it was almost a little bit uncomfortable to me how much aj mimiced people who i had known growing up, then i found out that the actor who played aj went to uarts in philly

the way hes just insulting and a-doggin him the whole time is p tuff to take

youre what i like to call one of those stoner loners

brutal

handshake + request for him to bring pills to the party - turning on a dime - too real

i dont remember those parts from drive

Drive II: Still Drivin'

so this is the unofficial Gosling thread instead of the Grinding Refn thread? FUCK THAT

u wish man

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