Tag: Drive
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Nicolas Winding Refn wraps noir series ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ for Netflix
Thriller marks director’s first project in native Denmark in 15 years.Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped filming on a six-part noir series Copenhagen Cowboy for Netflix.Angela Bundalovic stars as a young woman who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld.Copenhagen Cowboy marks Winding Refn’s first production in his native Denmark in 15 years. He is best…
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Nicolas Winding Refn to make noir series ‘Copenhagen Cowboy’ for Netflix
Thriller marks director’s first project in native Denmark in 15 years.Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn has wrapped filming on a six-part noir series Copenhagen Cowboy for Netflix.Angela Bundalovic stars as a young woman who travels through Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld.Copenhagen Cowboy marks Winding Refn’s first production in his native Denmark in 15 years. He is best…
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‘The Gray Man’ Review: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans Try to Out-Kill Each Other in This Spectacular Netflix Fireworks Show
At age 13, Ryan Gosling was spreading cheer on “The Mickey Mouse Club.” But something must have snapped in the dozen years between “The Notebook” and “La La Land.” The Canadian heartthrob seems committed to convincing us that he can be a cold-blooded, even-keeled, unsentimental killer. Starting with Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive,” followed by the…
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Oscar Isaac Discusses His Big Year: ‘Having More Ownership of the Creative Gave Me More Energy Back’
Oscar Isaac likes to quote Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard: “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” In the past two years, Isaac has learned this the hard way, pushing himself into ever riskier emotional terrain as an actor.Ever since he broke out in 2013 with his first lead role as a sensitive finger-picking folk singer in…
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Ryan Gosling Almost Joined Atlanta Season 3, But Had To Back Out At The Last Minute
“Atlanta” returned this past week, making the TV landscape considerably more interesting (as it always does) after four years off the air. The show’s long-awaited third season is set largely in Europe, during Paper Boi’s (Brian Tyree Henry) first international rap tour. While the ever-surprising, genre-defying show surely has some guest stars on deck, there’s…
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How the Academy’s Screening Room Helps Films Find a Global Audience Among Oscar Voters
As the pandemic raged and in-person screenings practically disappeared, the Academy’s Screening Room has found an appreciative audience.Many film distributors are able to send links to their films to various guilds, media members and voters; the Academy has stepped in with its screening room, offering voters those films plus other contenders who can’t afford to…
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Ralph Ahn, Who Played Tran on ‘New Girl,’ Dies at 95
Ralph Ahn, who played the fan-favorite “New Girl” character Tran, died on Feb. 26, the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles reported. He was 95.Ahn appeared in seven episodes of the sitcom alongside Jake Johnson, who played Nick Miller. A man of very few words, Tran serves as a friend and grandfather figure. Through facial…
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Ryan Gosling to Star in Untitled Stuntman Drama Directed by ‘Deadpool Former Stuntman David Leitch
For his next stunt, Ryan Gosling will play a stuntman. This wouldn’t be the first time that the First Man actor had played a stuntman, playing characters with the dangerous job in The Place Beyond the Pines and Drive, but this is the first time he’ll be playing a stuntman in a film directed by…
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Oscar Isaac Says His ‘Star Wars’ Days Are Likely Over & Calls ‘Card Counter’ A Career “Turning Point”
Oscar Isaac has one of the more eclectic acting careers amongst A-listers today. Over the years, he’s worked for filmmakers such as Nicolas Winding Refn (“Drive”), Zack Snyder (“Sucker Punch”), the Coen Brothers (“Inside Llewyn Davis”), Alex Garland (“Ex Machina”), and Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”), just to name several.Continue reading Oscar Isaac Says His ‘Star Wars’…
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‘Ford v Ferrari’ Race Re-Creations Better Than The Real Thing
Over a long career that stretches back 25 years, stuntman and stunt coordinator-turned-second-unit-director and actor Darrin Prescott has choreographed many a spectacular car chase and race in such testosterone-fueled movies as “Drive,” “Deadpool 2,” “Baby Driver” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which won him a Screen Actors Guild award as part of the stunt ensemble.But when…