In our Sound of Metal director interview, Darius Marder talks about the process of making his acclaimed film, which is steadily gaining Oscar buzz.
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Get ready for two Mark Ruffalos with HBO's I Know This Much Is True series, adaptated from the novel by Wally Lamb.
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Critically acclaimed writer-director Derek Cianfrance's latest film, The Light Between Oceans, is now in theaters. Read our Derek Cianfrance interview.
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Derek Cianfrance's latest film, which stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, opens in theaters this September. Watch The Light Between Oceans trailer.
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The Light Between Oceans trailer has just come online, showing off Derek Cianfrance's dramatic adaptation of M.L. Stedman's novel of the same name
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Michael Fassbender has been cast in Derek Cianfrance's The Light Between Oceans. However, it puts the Assassin's Creed film in question.
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Insight: Derek Cianfrance, the latest video from Kees van Dijkhuizen, explores the filmmaking process behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines.
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The guy who made Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines is now set to direct a film about clowns on a drunken rampage. Derek Cianfrance says he's attached to make A Cotton Candy Autopsy, and he's got his Place Beyond the Pines supporting actor Ben Mendelsohn to star. The story is one that real…
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Briefly: Derek Cianfrance is best known for heavy indie dramas like Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, but his commercial work shows that he's got an interest in sports. Those various tendencies may well collide in a film that he's just been attached to direct. Focus Features pulled the rights to adapt the…
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Derek Cianfrance knows a thing or two about tricky family relationships, judging by his previous works. Brother Tied explored a troubled sibling rivalry, Blue Valentine examined the breakdown of a once-promising marriage, and The Place Beyond the Pines saw fathers unwittingly passing their sins down to their sons. His next directorial effort continues in a…
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Between his debut feature Brother Tied and his sophomore effort Blue Valentine, filmmaker Derek Cianfrance spent twelve years in what he describes as "the cinematic desert." But he himself readily acknowledges that bounced back a better director, and the excellent Blue Valentine and the upcoming The Place Beyond the Pines seem to bear him out.…
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The Place Beyond the Pines is not the movie you think it is. That’s a good thing. Derek Cianfrance has created an epic generational drama that uses police and crime movie tropes as background to tell a bigger story about the consequences of action. Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes and Dane DeHaan star in…
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Wearing all-white might seem intimidating, but it's easier to pull off than you think.
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Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance and star Ryan Gosling reunited for The Place Beyond the Pines, and the first trailer for the film is below. Here Gosling plays a hasher motorcycle daredevil who turns to crime to support the son he finds he has after the boy's birth. But a couple of cops (Bradley Cooper…
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It wasn't so long ago that Bradley Cooper was mostly thought of as the guy from Wedding Crashers and The Hangover, but these days his dance card is filled with projects by David O. Russell, Susanne Bier, Cameron Crowe, and the like. One he's got coming up next year is The Place Beyond the Pines,…
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We've tracked The Place Beyond the Pines for a couple years now. As the new film from Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance it comes with a lot of interest pre-loaded, and the fact that Ryan Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt driver turned bank robber doesn't hurt. Bradley Cooper is the cop who opposes him, and…
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Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling followed up their 2010 film Blue Valentine by shooting The Place Beyond the Pines, a film in which Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt rider and criminal (a familiar role for him) who tangles with a cop (Bradley Cooper) in the beginning of a conflict that involves their sons, as well.…
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Soon after making his dark relationship indie Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance co-wrote a movie called The Place Beyond the Pines, which he says was inspired by Jack London and features two generations of conflicting fathers and sons, as well as motorcycles and guns. His Blue Valentine star Ryan Gosling signed on to be a motorcycle…
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Blue Valentine director and star Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling are back together for the multi-generational crime/grudge saga The Place Beyond the Pines. The film follows Gosling as a stunt cyclist who robs banks in order to provide for his son, and ands up entangled with cop-turned-politician Bradley Cooper. Their antagonism spills down the family…
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It seems like Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines gets more intriguing with each new casting announcement, and the latest addition is no exception. Ray Liotta has just signed on for Cianfrance's “Deer Hunter meets The Godfather” crime drama, joining Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Ben Mendelsohn. Liotta will be…
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Derek Cianfrance's been collecting quite a solid cast for his next project, the "Deer Hunter meets The Godfather" crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines. Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes are already on board, with Greta Gerwig circling another part. Now the latest addition to his cast is Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn, who…
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Two-thirds of the topline creative team of Blue Valentine, director Derek Cianfrance and actor Ryan Gosling, are reuniting for the film The Place Beyond the Pines. Called a "multi-generational crime drama," the film features a motorcycle stuntman who supports his son by robbing banks, played by Ryan Gosling, who finds his opposite number in police…
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Well, well, Bradley Cooper really is everywhere today. There's the possibility that he'll play Lucifer in Paradise Lost, and a report that The Hangover, Part II is going to be huge. (Duh.) But this is the interesting part: Derek Cianfrance is putting together a film called The Place Beyond the Pines -- we first heard…
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Blue Valentine director and star Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling could very well make another movie together this year. We first heard about The Place Beyond the Pines last year, when Mr. Cianfrance said that it was inspired by Jack London, and would be a film about "fathers and guns." Now there is a bit…
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Late last year, during his battle with the MPAA, Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance said that he is developing an HBO series that would hopefully "give new meaning to the word 'character development'." Given the intensely emotional angle of Blue Valentine, that cryptic statement was taken in exactly the misdirecting manner I suspect the director…
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The undeservedly controversial Sundance smash romance Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams and directed by Derek Cianfrance, was originally set to open on December 31. Deadline is reporting that the film will now open December 29 in New York and Los Angeles. After that it'll add one more screen in New York on the…
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It's award season, and The Hollywood Reporter has begun posting their series of roundtable discussions with the contenders. Last month they posted: The Screenwriters Roundtable between: Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network), Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3), John Wells (The Company Men), Todd Phillips (Due Date) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole) The…
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