Nicolas Winding Refn On the Genesis of ‘Her Private Hell’
Following a near-death experience and a series of increasingly dreamlike projects, the director seems to have forsaken verisimilitude for a dark fairy-tale take on life.
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Now Screening: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’
Panahi’s masterwork of a revenge thriller exactingly traces how evil, once inflicted, metastasizes within our souls and eventually overtakes us.
Screening at Venice: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Dead Man’s Wire’
Whatever Van Sant’s feelings about this kind of subject matter may have once been, he appears to now translate them through a lens of sheer exhaustion.
