![]() ![]() Refn often cites avant-garde filmmaker Anger as an influence. Plus, his first film as a cameraman was Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising!” ![]() “But when I met Tom, I really dug his energy, and his background as a documentary filmmaker made me confident we could make our seven-week shooting schedule work. “I met with a lot of wonderful cinematographers - that’s the good thing about Hollywood, they’re all out here,” says Refn. It was clearly a film with a limited budget and limited resources, but it had a very strong vision from the director.” 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. 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. “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. But when the job goes horribly wrong, Driver has to cut a bloody swath to guide Irene to safety. 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. It’s time, Refn says, “to place the girls.” Based on the crime novel by James Sallis, Drive 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. 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. Refn has invited AC to the set, built on the fourth floor of Los Angeles’ Park Plaza Hotel. It’s day 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. Photos and frame grabs courtesy of Film District. Unit photography by Richard Foreman, Jr., SMPSP. Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC and director Nicolas Winding Refn craft a violent fairytale on the streets of Los Angeles.
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