First up we have the very controversial Blue Valentine, set to release on December 31. The ratings board gave the movie a NC17 rating, which Weinstein & co are currently fighting. I think it looks good, albeit very depressing!
Blue Valentine is the story of love found and love lost told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks.
Next is Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things which will release on December 3.
Inspired by the most notorious missing person’s case in New York history, All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Produced and directed by Andrew Jarecki, the film was inspired by the story of Robert Durst, scion of the wealthy Durst family. Mr. Durst was suspected but never tried for killing his wife Kathie who disappeared in 1982 and was never found. The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella as the powerful patriarch, and captures the emotion and complexity of this real-life unsolved mystery.
A week after the MPAA branded its domestic dramaBlue Valentine with an NC-17 rating, the Weinstein Company has decided to appeal the decision and hope for an R without any trims to the film. “We respect the work of the MPAA,” Harvey Weinstein says in a statement today, “and we hope, after having a chance to sit down with them, they will see that our appeal is reasonable, and the film, which is an honest and personal portrait of a relationship, would be significantly harmed by such a rating.” Weinstein is right: The NC-17 would limit the film’s audience and its Oscar chances. The question is whether the notoriously stubborn MPAA will budge. Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, has its U.K. premiere tomorrow night at the London Film Festival and hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 31.
In a surprising development, the MPAA ratings board has slapped an NC-17 rating on Blue Valentine, the Derek Cianfrance-directed drama that is creating Oscar buzz for the performances of Ryan Gosling and Michelle Willams. The film, about the slow corrosion of the relationship between a young couple, was acquired by The Weinstein Company after its premiere at the last Sundance Film Festival. The film also played at Cannes and Toronto.
I’m told the rating was given for a scene in which the characters played by Gosling and Williams try to save their crumbling marriage by spending a night away in a hotel. They get drunk and their problems intensify when he wants to have sex and she doesn’t, but will to get him off her back. That hurts his pride and the result is an upsetting scene that makes you squirm, but is an honest one that establishes clearly that this couple has nothing left and isn’t going to make it because love has turned into contempt. There is barely any nudity in the scene, as I recall (though I haven’t seen it since last January) and there is no violence. It was hardly a moment that would make you think, well here comes an NC-17.
They will most likely have to cut the scene in order to get an R rating, but we’ll see what happens!
Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling (not pictured) got back to work today on the set of Drive in Los Angeles.
The movie centers around Ryan Gosling’s character, who is a “nameless Hollywood stuntman” acting as a getaway car driver in his spare time. Mulligan’s character will be Gosling’s ex-girlfriend, who ends up in the passenger seat when a heist goes wrong, and the stuntman is forced to go on the run.
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play lovers in this fall’s My Blue Valentine, and they look like lovers on the cover of October’s W Magazine.
Blue Valentine is the story of a young married couple and their fight to save their disintegrating marriage.
Set in two separate time periods you initially see the couple with a young daughter, taking a trip to help save their relationship before jumping back in time to look at the start of the relationship and how the couple fell in love.
The romantic drama got great reviews at Sundance and is even generating Oscar buzz.
