The night before last I tried to attend the initial Cinefamily screening of Liv Corifixen‘s My Life Directed by Niholas Winding Refn because, as mentioned previously, I have a kind of bit part in the film, and also because I wanted to see it with a live audience (watching it on a Macbook Air isn’t as engaging) and record Refn and Corfixen’s comments during the post-screening q & a. But there were no tickets (they’d sold out quickly). It was possible, I was told, that a seat or two could open up but the lady I was with was more into seeing another film so we blew it off. But the folks at MPRM have graciously sent me photos of the q & a, which also included comments from the doc’s musical composer Cliff Martinez. The doc, a portrait of creative stress and uncertainty which struck me as tight and clean and rather good overall, will play at Cinerfamily until 3.5.
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My Life Directed By Nicholas Winding Refn director Liv Corfixen, her husband and partner Nicholas Winding Refn during post-screening q & a at Cinefamily on Friday, 2.27.
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Following last September’s debut screening at Fantastic Fest: “Last weekend I was told about a sequence in Liv Corfixen‘s My Life Directed By Nicholas Winding Refn, a Hearts of Darkness-like doc about the making of Refn’s Only God Forgives, in which Refn reads a portion of my Cannes Film Festival pan. Here it is. Corfixen offers an honest look at a good filmmaker going through the usual doubt and pain; she’s just as candid in portraying a healthy but less-than-ideal marriage.” I don’t regret writing what I felt at the time but I now feel badly (as I mentioned a few weeks ago) about having possibly hurt Refn’s feelings. Especially since he was so easygoing and cool when we spoke last December at a 20th Century Fox holiday party. If I had it do over again I would go more gently.
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