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Logan's Run
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures- but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being 'renewed' in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
Favorite film: “Logan’s Run, a science-fiction film from 1976 that I will remake with my director friend Nicolas Winding Refn.
Singin' in the Rain
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
Watch 'Wizard of Oz' or 'Singin' in the Rain?' - 'Singin' in the Rain.'
First Blood
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo employs heavy-handed guerilla tactics to shake the cops off his tail.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
Inspired by the movie First Blood, he once took steak knives to school and threw them at other children during recess.
Howard the Duck
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Ryan Gosling
Actor
Film that helps you live...
Howard the Duck, have you seen it? It's about the duck, but it is very dark.
Videodrome
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
When we were kids and we saw "The Fly" or "Videodrome" a Videodrome especially, because it was shot in Canada. It was... I know now as I get older, I understand it was not a Hollywood movie, but when we were kids, it all became possible.
The Fly
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
When we were kids and we saw "The Fly" or "Videodrome" a Videodrome especially, because it was shot in Canada. It was... I know now as I get older, I understand it was not a Hollywood movie, but when we were kids, it all became possible.
The Night of the Hunter
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
He discusses his love for Night of the Hunter, the unclassifiable 1955 masterpiece made by the actor Charles Laughton, received so poorly at the time he never directed another film.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
You know, when he played Willy Wonka [in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, 1971], there was always something slightly terrifying and angry and sadistic about that character, all of which you would imagine might take away from the magic of it. But there was something about how he played it that let you see how this guy living alone in this place, as Wonka was, could have been affected by all of that, how it would have affected his emotional state.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
There’s that scene in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid Ask [1972] where he falls in love with that sheep. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen because you feel like he’s actually in love with the sheep. He’s feeling it up. He’s groping it.
The Incredibles
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
GOSLING: It’s funny because that pilot we did [The Unbelievables] was very similar to that Pixar movie The Incredibles [2004]. It was about a family of superheroes.
Dick Tracy
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Ryan Gosling
Actor
So you weren’t watching old James Cagney movies?
I love those movies. My favourite gangster movie when I was a kid was Dick Tracy – and I was a big fan. I had a few posters in my room. I collected all the Burger King cups.
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