"Driver" helmer defends Gosling's "Lost River" panned at CannesMay 27, 2014 - 17:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Nicolas Winding Refn has defended Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River, Digital Spy said. The film made its premiere at Cannes to many negative reviews from critics. However, the Drive filmmaker called the picture "beautiful", and responded to suggestions that there are similarities between the pair's directing styles. "I think it's a beautiful, beautiful, great movie that will grow on people," he told New York Magazine. "There are images from it that still stick with me "Because we're twins we make the same movie. Separated at birth, we found each other. That's the thing about twins. We stick together." Lost River stars Christina Hendricks as a single mother who finds herself drawn into the dark underworld of a town in Michigan, and also stars Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes and Matt Smith. Photo: Geek Tyrant Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |