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Nicolas Winding Refn

December 2023

  • The Famous Five: the Curse of Kirrin Island

    ‘Something magical’: the Famous Five are back – thanks to a hyperviolent director

    He is a Cannes-winning auteur famed for brutality, who once declared: ‘I am a pornographer.’ Can Nicolas Winding Refn really turn The Famous Five into a heartwarming Christmas treat?

June 2023

  • Danish film director, screenwriter and producer Nicolas Winding Refn.

    Lashings and ginger beer: how safe are the Famous Five with Nicolas Winding Refn?

  • Nicolas Winding Refn attending a photo session during the 11th Beaune Film Festival (Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune) in Beaune, France on April 04, 2019. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM<br>2DEFC3P Nicolas Winding Refn attending a photo session during the 11th Beaune Film Festival (Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune) in Beaune, France on April 04, 2019. Photo by Aurore Marechal/ABACAPRESS.COM

    Nicolas Winding Refn to reinterpret Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for the BBC

January 2023

  • A still from Copenhagen Cowboy.

    TV review
    Copenhagen Cowboy review – Nicolas Winding Refn’s scattershot Netflix series

    The hit-and-miss Drive director brings some spellbinding visuals to a new six-part thriller but struggles to make what counts for a plot feel quite as arresting

September 2022

  • A pre-torn Prada pencil skirt at Milan fashion week 2022.

    Prada lets it rip with ‘gestures of error’ at Milan fashion week

    Prada and Raf Simons added pre-lived defects to their immaculate simplicity, with abstract filmic backdrops by Nicolas Winding Refn

February 2021

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    'My father and I disagree on the purpose of cinema': Anders and Nicolas Winding Refn on film-making

    The two Danish directors have known the joy of success and the pain of failure in their respective careers. Just don’t expect them to see eye to eye on anything else

January 2021

  • Only God Forgives - Mar 2013<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore / Rex Features (2495949g) Only God Forgives (2013) Ryan Gosling Only God Forgives - Mar 2013

    Hear me out
    Hear me out: why Only God Forgives isn't a bad movie

    In the first of a new series of writers defending mostly loathed films, a plea to reconsider Nicolas Winding Refn’s gory follow-up to Drive

May 2020

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    Lockdown watch
    Nicolas Winding Refn: 'If Pence became president, this is what America might look like'

    Booze-fuelled noir, monsters in girls’ schools and Christian propaganda are all on the Drive director’s lockdown viewing roster

June 2019

  • Too Old To Die Young is available on Prime Video 14th June

    Is Nicolas Winding Refn's Amazon show an indulgence too far?

    The Drive director’s 13-hour LA-set noir Too Old to Die Young has divided critics but the extended format has allowed him to create something striking

May 2019

  • Too Old to Die Young still

    Too Old to Die Young review - Nicolas Winding Refn's dead-eyed LA nightmare

    The Only God Forgives director has made his first foray into TV with a supernatural noir series, and it’s just as horrible and upsetting as you’d expect

April 2019

  • Alain Delon, left, gets an honorary Palme and there are much-anticipated entries from Xavier Dolan and Céline Sciamma.

    Cannes film festival 2019: an intriguing lineup, with big-name clout

    Asian auteurs bring exciting new work, Céline Sciamma and Mati Diop bring verve to the festival, seasoned directors from Almodóvar to Elia Suleiman add class, and it could all kick off with Maradona

August 2018

  • 2015, JAMES BOND: SPECTRE<br>DANIEL CRAIG Character(s): James Bond Film ‘JAMES BOND: SPECTRE’ (2015) Directed By SAM MENDES 26 October 2015 SAO56703 Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of UNITED ARTISTS and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To UNITED ARTISTS is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Bigelow? Tarantino? Nolan? You share your picks for a Bond director

    Our writer picked five possible Bond 25 directors after Danny Boyle left the project and you responded with a long list of alternative picks

July 2018

  • "The Neon Demon" - UK Premiere - VIP Arrivals<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 31: Director Nicolas Winding Refn attends the UK Premiere of "The Neon Demon" at Picturehouse Central on May 31, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage)

    Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Cinema is dead. And now it is resurrected'

  • ‘Naively adolescent’ … Linda Lawson and Dennis Hopper in the 1961 film Night Tide – streaming soon at byNWR.com.

    Nicolas Winding Refn: our times need sex, horror and melodrama

June 2018

  • Mary Laws

    Preacher writer Mary Laws: 'I'm happy to get angry and deep about faith and God'

    As her bloody horror comedy Blueberry Toast is staged in London, the Texan talks about how Christianity informs everything she writes

August 2017

  • Directors’ feuds composite: Spike Lee, Lans von Trier and Clint Eastwood

    Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other

    James Cameron and Patty Jenkins disagreeing over Wonder Woman’s grasp of feminism is not the first and won’t be the last example of directors falling out

May 2017

  • TOPSHOT - (1st row fromL) French director Laurent Cantet, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, US director Jerry Schatzberg, French director Claude Lelouch, Austrian director Michael Haneke, New Zealander director Jane Campion, the General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Fremaux, British director Ken Loach, Italian director Nanni Moretti, Greek director Costa-Gavras, Swedish director Bille August and Algerian director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, (2ndrow fromL) Actors and directors from former Cannes selections pose for photographers during the photocall for the 70th Anniversary of the international film festival

    Cannes 2017 day seven: Charlize Theron and Naomi Campbell on the red carpet – in pictures

    Day seven at Cannes was dominated by a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the film festival, with hordes of film-world luminaries on hand to celebrate

February 2017

  • Composite of Joel and Ethan Coen, Spike Lee, Paolo Sorrentini and Nicolas Winding-Refn

    That auteur do it: can big name directors continue to thrive on the small screen?

    Spike Lee, Nicolas Winding Refn and the Coens are set to join the ongoing exodus to TV, yet there are lessons to be learned from those who have gone before

October 2016

  • Ruth Wilson in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House; The Neon Demon and more – review

    Hauntings and mind games provide the chills in two superior Halloween releases from Osgood Perkins and Nicolas Winding Refn

July 2016

  • Elle Fanning as Jesse in The Neon Demon

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    The Neon Demon review – beauty as the beast

    Nicolas Winding Refn’s provocative modern fable follows a young model into the dark, dangerous woods of the LA fashion world
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