On Film Weekly this week: Jason Solomons meets Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn to discuss his film Drive, in which man-of-the-moment Ryan Gosling stars as a heroic stunt driver out for gruesome revenge on the streets of LA.
Nicolas tells Jason about winning the directing award at this year's Cannes and getting the best out of his actors via the liberal application of carrot cake. Also we have a great Drive competition, listen in and you could win a copy of the soundtrack, a copy of the James Sallis novel on which the film was based and a limited edition set of leather driving gloves.
Next, Jason delves into 70s disco fashion with film-maker Whitney Sudler-Smith, the director of a documentary on forgotten fashion designer Halston. Sudler-Smith's film, Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston, reveals the designer's influence on the popular imagination and explores his close friendships with the glitterati of 1970's New York, including Liza Minnelli and Bianca Jagger.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other big releases, including a buffed-up Tom Hardy in Warrior and a suited and booted Ryan Gosling in both Drive and romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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