The Neon Demon | June 24 | Nicolas Winding Refn (director), Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves

[CoolioD1]

great. i'll be there with bells on.

[bartonfink]

Nicolas Winding Refn must be enjoying all this controversy. He's one of the most provocative artists. I wanna see the film ASAP.

[CoolioD1]

 

[JohnnyGossamer]

12 minutes ago, marveldcfox said:

Hahahaha. Refn is too much for the critics to handle. Another classic for the future. Refn and Trank should team up to fuck with everyone. Now that would be something.

I mean, aside from Only God Forgives, his movies are well received by critics, might even go so far as to say he's kind of darling among them.

 

Speaking of fucking with everyone, I feel a Southland Tales comment is permitted in a Refn movie thread... Anyway, finally saw that one. And, I'll admit, I really, really, really liked the last 30 minutes of it. Hell, that Timberlake dance number with the nurses was strangely entrancing too. But, wow, the trolling of the young century in the film industry. Just, unreal, bizarro mesh of maddeningly clashing castings, framing, storytelling, etc. Quite a trip. I bring it up because I'd read the reaction it received at Cannes was pretty brutal.

Edited May 19, 2016 by JohnnyGossamer

[La Binoche]

Can't wait. But Verhoeven's Elle is still my most anticipated out of Cannes. 

[JohnnyGossamer]

1 minute ago, La Binoche said:

Can't wait. But Verhoeven's Elle is still my most anticipated out of Cannes. 

Well, after all, Refn is kinda/sorta a Verhoeven in training. He'll get there. Just, not quite yet.

[Otakusai]

That trailer didn't have nearly enough of the only thing I care about in it.

 

  Less isn't more!

   Don't body shame her. 

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by Otakusai

[Otakusai]

1 hour ago, La Binoche said:

It just screened @ Cannes. This is the critic for The Telegraph: 

 

Robbie Collin ‏@robbiereviews  4m4 minutes ago

Ahahaha how do I even review that now? It's basically Death Becomes Her with explicit lesbian necrophilia

 

 

Yuck. 

 

I hope Nicholas Winding Refn isn't becoming too married to that off kilter brand of cinema European directors are too (in)famous for.

[JohnnyGossamer]

[Jake Gittes]

 

 

 

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by Jake Gittes

[Jake Gittes]

This is glorious. GIVE IT TO ME.

[Jake Gittes]

[Otakusai]

35 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

[kowhite]

7 hours ago, La Binoche said:

It just screened @ Cannes. This is the critic for The Telegraph: 

 

Robbie Collin ‏@robbiereviews  4m4 minutes ago

Ahahaha how do I even review that now? It's basically Death Becomes Her with explicit lesbian necrophilia

 

 

Well shit two of my favorite things all in one movie!  And the visuals are gorgeous!

[The Stingray]

Probably my most anticipated movie of the year (alongside Rogue One). And it's only three weeks away!
 

[The Stingray]

Mmm.

 

"Beauty mingles with mangled flesh, and each fastidiously slick image seems to have come out of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me or The Shining or a very sick version of a Calvin Klein commercial."

 

- Variety

 

Btw, I'm seeing Only God Forgives for the first time tonight.
 

[AniNate]

21 hours ago, Otakusai said:

 

Yuck. 

 

I hope Nicholas Winding Refn isn't becoming too married to that off kilter brand of cinema European directors are too (in)famous for.

 

He's always been. Drive just had more of a heart to it than usual.

Edited May 20, 2016 by tribefan695

[RichWS]

46 minutes ago, The Stingray said:

Btw, I'm seeing Only God Forgives for the first time tonight.

 

 

Bask in its glory. 

[Otakusai]

7 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

 

He's always been. Drive just had more of a heart to it than usual.

 

 

When I first watched Drive -I stumbled into it unknowingly-, I knew after ten minutes that it wasn't directed by an American. The framing, the tone, the sudden fits of visceral violence, the flavor of it all became a burden throughout the movie.  The part I enjoyed the most (after the opening sequence) was watching Hendricks trot in those heels to the scene of the robbery..

 

;-;

 

After he killed my baby   (I had a feeling she wouldn't make it anyway, lol) I lost interest.

 

 

Are you looking for to this movie?  If so, why?

 

Edited May 20, 2016 by Otakusai

[AniNate]

Not really apart from the new Cliff Martinez tunes this will bring. Senseless depravity has its place but I do prefer a little bit of humanity to it.