The Danish auteur is back with a new movie, a prominent role in a computer game, and the same confrontational attitude to formulaic art.
Speaking with IBC365 at a sports and video gaming conference in Riyadh, auteur Nicolas Winding Refn is reminded of an interview some 30 years prior, particularly his quote, “F**k film school.”
“Yeah, that was my attitude,” recalls the 54-year-old Danish director of cult films Pusher, Drive, and Only God Forgives. “I would have said something like that. Now I’m older and therefore I look at things in a different way.”...
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