The Place Beyond the Pines
2013
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2 Videos. 30 Photos. Derek Cianfrance began making movies at age 13. He later attended The University of Colorado where he studied under avant-garde film legends Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon. His first three films, 'Five O'clock Shadow', 'Raw Footage', and Brother Tied (1998), won consecutive Goldfarb Awards for best film.
- January 1, 1
- 1.75 m
- Lakewood, Colorado, USA
- 4 The Light Between Oceans
- 3 I Know This Much Is True
- 2 The Place Beyond The Pines
- 1 Blue Valentine
Based on a 2012 novel by M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceansis perhaps Cianfrance’s most straightforward project to date. While it certainly does not lack any of the emotional resonance of his more experimental projects, the film proceeds like a typical period romance with a good deal of melodrama. Those willing to engage with the slower pacing...
I Know This Much Is Truecertainly contains the best performance that Cianfrance has ever gotten out of an actor; the six-part HBO miniseries stars Mark Ruffaloin a dual role as the identical twin brothers Dominick and Thomas Birdsey. Thomas is a paranoid schizophrenic who is able to live a relatively normal life, but after a violent incident when h...
The Place Beyond the Pinesis Cianfrance’s epic crime masterpiece, as he shows how events ripple across three generations between a pair of fathers and sons. Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper star as the stunt driver-turned robber Luke Glanton and the career cop Avery Cross, respectively, whose paths cross in a frantic heist getaway. Their fates are f...
While it is among the most depressing films ever made, Blue Valentineis essential viewing for any cinephile. Not only does Cianfrance cut to the core of how difficult marriage can be, but he effectively utilizes nonlinear storytelling techniques to subvert expectations of the standard breakup movie. The film explores the relationship between the me...
- Liam Gaughan
Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Craig Van Hook. Votes: 289,685 | Gross: $21.38M. Ambitious to a fault, The Place Beyond the Pines finds writer/director Derek Cianfrance reaching for -- and often grasping -- thorny themes of family, fatherhood, and fate. 4.
Derek M. Cianfrance (/ ˈ s iː ə n f r æ n s /; born January 23, 1974) is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for writing and directing the films Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines and The Light Between Oceans as well as the HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True.
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Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCredit95%No Score YetProducerNo Score YetNo Score YetSelf97%Fresh audience score. 90%Executive Producer62%Fresh audience score. 61%Director, ScreenwriterTV-14 | 150 min | Music. 3.6. Rate this. The top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Nomadland (2020) and Sound of Metal (2019).
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Derek M. Cianfrance (born January 23, 1974) is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for writing and directing the films Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines and The Light Between Oceans as well as the HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True.
