Forgive my brief step into celebrity stalkerville, but via my favorite neighborhood blog, EV Grieve, comes this video showing, apparently, Ryan Gosling stepping into some rather low-key fisticuffs at Astor Place in the East Village. What’s great here is the soundtrack as the shooter slowly realizes that she’s got a celeb in her iPhone sights. (“That’s the guy from the movie!”)
by Scott Macaulay on Aug 22, 2011Here’s the just released redband trailer for Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive, which stars Ryan Gosling and picked up the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes’ Film Festival. I flat out loved this smart throwback to the neon lit, stylish and smart genre movies of the ’80s. More Drive (2011) Videos
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 22, 2011Here Oscar-winner Robert Benton interviews Derek Cianfrance. The piece was originally printed in the Fall 2010 issue. Blue Valentine is nominated for Best Actress (Michelle Williams). As a child, Derek Cianfrance always worried his parents would divorce. When he was 20 his fears were realized. Both upset as well as curious about his own emotional antennae — how he somehow sensed discord in his parents’ relationship — Cianfrance decided to tackle the subject head-on with a movie. After gaining notice in the indie community with his debut feature, Brother Tied, in 1998, Cianfrance got to work on Blue Valentine, a […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Feb 24, 2011Here’s one of the most beautiful end title sequences you’ll ever see, one that extends the film’s themes of love found and lost until the final moments the lights come up. It’s for Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 31, 2011Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine opens December 31 and stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. Here’s the first trailer from the Weinstein Company.
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 8, 2010In news that just makes you scratch your head, according the Mike Fleming at Deadline, the MPAA ratings board has given Derek Cianfrance‘s Sundance gem (and Oscar hopeful) Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating. Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple who are on the verge of a divorce, Fleming says the rating was given due to the scene where Gosling and Williams’ characters spend the night in an adult fantasy suite. “They get drunk and their problems intensify when he wants to have sex and she doesn’t, but will to get him off her back. It is […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Oct 8, 2010Announced today, Andrew Jarecki‘s long awaited narrative All Good Things, starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella, will be released through Magnolia Pictures in December. In the press release from Magnolia the story is described as a murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. It’s inspired by true events of Robert Durst who was suspected of killing his wife who disappeared in 1982 but never tried. It’s considered the most notorious missing persons case in New York history. This will be Jarecki’s first foray into narrative features, his previous film […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Aug 24, 2010RYAN GOSLING DINES WITH PAUL SCHNEIDER, EMILY MORTIMER AND “BIANCA” IN CRAIG GILLESPIE’S LARS AND THE REAL GIRL. COURTESY MGM. Leading up to the Oscars on Feb. 24, we will be highlighting the nominated films that have appeared in the magazine or on the Website in the last year. Nick Dawson interviewed Lars and the Real Girl director Craig Gillespie for our Director Interviews section of the Website. Lars and the Real Girl is nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Nancy Oliver). In one of the more unusual coincidences on this year’s movie release schedule, Craig Gillespie has seen his first […]
by Nick Dawson on Oct 12, 2007The following interview appeared originally in Filmmaker‘s Fall, 2007 print edition. We don’t cover enough screenwriters in Filmmaker, but that’s not entirely our fault. This magazine is devoted to independent film, and for many, the director is also the writer. Or the script has emerged from improvisation or some other nontraditional means. And while there is a new breed of independent-minded screenwriters today — Charlie Kaufman, Capote’s Dan Futterman and Juno’s Diablo Cody come immediately to mind — many of the “marquee screenwriters” still work almost exclusively in the studio world. By virtue of the unique niche that screenwriter Oren […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 1, 2007