Released on: 2005
Rating: 6.50
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Vincenzo Natali’s Neuromancer to film in early 2012
Splice director Vincenzo Natali has been trying to make sci-fi Neuromancer for years, and finally he’s got his chance.The adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal novel was shopped around Cannes this week, and was finally picked up by a distributor.With the film rights also bought, filming is expected to commence early 2012, with locations including Canada, Istanbul, Tokyo, and London. Pre-visual effects work has already begun.Released in 1984, Gibson’s novel kicked off the cyberpunk craze, the plot following Case, a...
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- Josh Winning
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Cannes 2011 review: Drive
He won't race off with the Palme d'Or, but Nicolas Winding Refn's existential heist movie will go down in a blaze of glory
The mile-o-meter is ticking all the way back to the 1980s on Drive, an existential heist movie that doffs its cap to the back catalogues of Walter Hill, John Carpenter and Michael Mann. Directed with savvy aplomb by the Danish film-maker Nicolas Winding Refn, this plays out under cloudy La skies and thrums to a narcotic synth-pop soundtrack as it rides shotgun alongside an imperilled Hollywood stuntman. Buckle up; it's quite a ride.
Ryan Gosling stars as Driver, who flips cars for a living and occasionally moonlights as a getaway man for jewel thieves and bank robbers, offering them five minutes of his time, after which they're on their own. Driver, we soon come to realise, is an American riff on Jean-Pierre Melville's solitary samourai,»
- Xan Brooks
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