Among the many projects bubbling away in his brain and at various companies is Drive / Only God Forgives director Nicolas Winding Refn’s plan to take on horror via I Walk With The Dead. With an eye to making it less man-centric, he’s working with playwright Polly Stenham on the script.“He’s got a lot of stick for doing films some people think are violently misogynistic,” Stenham tells the Evening Standard’s Londoner column. “So he approached me with the idea of doing something different.”Exact details about the film have been hard to come by, though previous talk has been about Carey Mulligan starring in a story set in Miami that features a lot of sex. It’s more recently being described as an all-female horror, with, as Stenham indicates, “a bit of everything” in terms of horror elements.Refn has a talent for teaming up with...
- 10/21/2013
- EmpireOnline
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Written by: Roy Jacobsen, Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Flanagan, Gary Lewis, Gary McCormack, Alexander Morton, Jamie Sives
The world of Vikings isn't necessarily new to film, but it is one that is often misrepresented. Say "Viking" and the listener will immediately conjure up images of giant men in armor and bull-horned helmets. The image won't go much further than that as the old Nordic raiders aren't typically given any depth or real character beyond smashing things with clubs and axes. This is what makes a film such as Valhalla Rising such an unexpected joy; a profoundly artistic story of the travels of a somber mute warrior named One-Eye, caught at the brink of the Christian crusades.
As the story opens, One-Eye is a slave. His uses are limited due to his complete savagery and uncanny knack for killing,...
Written by: Roy Jacobsen, Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Flanagan, Gary Lewis, Gary McCormack, Alexander Morton, Jamie Sives
The world of Vikings isn't necessarily new to film, but it is one that is often misrepresented. Say "Viking" and the listener will immediately conjure up images of giant men in armor and bull-horned helmets. The image won't go much further than that as the old Nordic raiders aren't typically given any depth or real character beyond smashing things with clubs and axes. This is what makes a film such as Valhalla Rising such an unexpected joy; a profoundly artistic story of the travels of a somber mute warrior named One-Eye, caught at the brink of the Christian crusades.
As the story opens, One-Eye is a slave. His uses are limited due to his complete savagery and uncanny knack for killing,...
- 7/20/2010
- by Tristan Sinns
- Planet Fury
Year: 2009
Directors: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers: Nicolas Winding Refn / Roy Jacobsen
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7out of 10
Sparse, intense and atmospheric, barbarian epic Valhalla Rising is an unusually artistic take on a genre more associated with the one-dimensional dumbness of the Conan films, one which in its firm grounding in actual history also manages to move beyond the escapism of the fantasy genre it draws inspiration from. However, a brilliantly realized world and immersive atmosphere are betrayed by a meandering, listless story that draws us too far away from the awe-inspiring early scenes and ends up petering out into nothing.
The film opens oppressively on a barren, windswept mountainside in the Scottish Highlands. A small group of Vikings are among few pagan survivors of Christianity's violent sweep through Northern Europe, driven to the edge of the inhabitable world. In the Vikings' possession is a dangerous caged warrior,...
Directors: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers: Nicolas Winding Refn / Roy Jacobsen
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Ben Austwick
Rating: 7out of 10
Sparse, intense and atmospheric, barbarian epic Valhalla Rising is an unusually artistic take on a genre more associated with the one-dimensional dumbness of the Conan films, one which in its firm grounding in actual history also manages to move beyond the escapism of the fantasy genre it draws inspiration from. However, a brilliantly realized world and immersive atmosphere are betrayed by a meandering, listless story that draws us too far away from the awe-inspiring early scenes and ends up petering out into nothing.
The film opens oppressively on a barren, windswept mountainside in the Scottish Highlands. A small group of Vikings are among few pagan survivors of Christianity's violent sweep through Northern Europe, driven to the edge of the inhabitable world. In the Vikings' possession is a dangerous caged warrior,...
- 10/23/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- Lee Daniels will have trouble topping 2009, unless of course 2010 scores him tons of awards. After receiving the prizes and acclaim from Sundance and making a stop in Cannes' Un Certain Regard section, Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire will receive some more media nurturing during the Toronto Film Festival. The picture is joined by the long awaited film from New Zealand. After wowing audiences with Whale Rider, Niko Caro re-teams with Keisha Castle-Hughes and adds vets Vera Farmiga and Jérémie Renier to The Vinter's Luck mix. Partir - Catherine Corsini's film stars Kristin Scott-Thomas and Sergi López, this is about a well-to-do married woman and mother in the south of France gives up her idle bourgeois lifestyle to go back to work as a physiotherapist. She meets a new man and shares a sudden and violent mutual attraction, and decides to give up everything and live
- 7/14/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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