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3 days ago · While you likely haven't heard of the mononymous rider, the real-life Benny and his countercultural world have transfixed writer-director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Loving) for two decades.
2 days ago · New film by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) The Bikeriders harkens back to the auteur-driven films of the New Hollywood from the 1960s and '70s both in its setting and subject matter. It is a film more interested in mood and character than big ideas or action set pieces. And while it contains ...
2 days ago · Writer and director Jeff Nichols is a man with a mission — take a heavily scripted film project, cast it with proven performers, be certain they are on the same page, and then let them do what they do best. His method worked with Mudd (2013), Loving (2016) and Midnight Special (2016). The Bikeriders (2023) is the latest example of his brilliance.
3 days ago · The catch of Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” is that it sells you its swagger from the get-go. It opens with Benny (Austin Butler) drinking a glass of whiskey in a bar when he is confronted by two regulars aggressively trying to kick him out of the building because of his leather jacket.
4 days ago · Writer-director Jeff Nichols frames his oil-slicked snapshot of the period around Johnny (Hardy), a former trucker inspired to swap 10 wheels for two after seeing Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
2 days ago · Still images have been a source of wonder and mythology in the films of Jeff Nichols. "Mud," Nichols' Twain-soaked Mississippi fable, seemed derived from the magical sight of a boat held aloft by ...
3 days ago · Jeff Nichols uses some of Lyon’s interviews verbatim making his film remarkably authentic. The person who was the most prolific storyteller in Lyon’s work was a woman called Kathy – not a rider herself but the wife of one.
