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Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC and director Nicolas Winding Refn craft a violent fairytale on the streets of Los Angeles.
By Jon D. Witmer •|•
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t’sday 11 on the shooting schedule for Drive, the first Hollywood movie from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, who made his name on the international stage with such projects as the Pusher trilogy, Bronson (AC Oct. ’09) and Valhalla Rising. Refn has invited AC to the set, built on the fourth floor of Los Angeles’ Park Plaza Hotel. With a blanket wrapped snugly around his waist, the director leads the way down a faux-brick hallway that opens into a room featuring four mirrored walls outlined with vanity bulbs — the dressing room of a strip club. It’s time, Refn says, “to place the girls.” Based on the crime novel by James Sallis, Drive
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revolves around the unnamed Driver (Ryan Gosling), who spends his days as a Hollywood stunt driver and his nights behind the wheel of getaway cars for members of the Los Angeles underworld. In order to protect his neighbor, Irene (Carey Mulligan), he agrees to help her ex-con husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac), pull off an easy heist. But when the job goes horribly wrong, Driver has to cut a bloody swath to guide Irene to safety. “It’s almost a mythological story, not a story about today or yesterday or tomorrow, so it was important that the movie have an almost indefinable time period,” says director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC. After Drive was in the can, Sigel spoke with AC by phone from the U.K., where he was shooting Jack the Giant Killer for Bryan Singer. Drive marks Sigel’s first collaboration with Refn, and the cinematographer recalls that when he was approached about the project, “I took a look at Bronson and was really impressed. It was clearly a film with a limited budget and limited resources, but it had a very strong vision from the director.” “I met with a lot of wonderful cinematographers — that’s the good thing about Hollywood, they’re all out here,” says Refn. “But when I met Tom, I really dug his energy, and his background as a documentary filmmaker made me confi-
American Cinematographer - October 2011
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - October 2011
American Cinematographer - October 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Woolite “Torture”
Production Slate: The Skin I Live In • Margin Call
Road Warriors
Man of Action
Home Invasion
King of New York
Post Focus: Restoring A Trip to the Moon
Filmmakers’ Forum: Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, BVK
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Takuo “Tak” Miyagishima
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Xavier Grobet
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - American Cinematographer - October 2011
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - 1
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Contents
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Editor’s Note
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - 9
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Short Takes: Woolite “Torture”
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Production Slate: The Skin I Live In • Margin Call
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Road Warriors
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Filmmakers’ Forum: Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, BVK
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - New Products & Services
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - International Marketplace
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Classified Ads
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - In Memoriam: Takuo “Tak” Miyagishima
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Clubhouse News
American Cinematographer - October 2011 - ASC Close-Up: Xavier Grobet
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