Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #9. Derek Cianfrance’s Place Beyond the Plains

#09. Place Beyond the Plains

Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writer(s): Cianfrance, Ben Coccio, Darius Marder
Producers: Silverwood Films’ Lynette Howell, Sidney Kimmel, Alex Orlovsky and Hunting Lane Films’ Jamie Patricof
Distributor: Rights Available (Sierra/Affinity)

The Gist: This is about a motorcycle rider (Gosling) who, after having a child, begins robbing banks to support the baby. Cooper plays the part of a cop-turned politician who goes up against Gosling’s character…(more)

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Bruce Greenwood and Ben Mendelsohn

List Worthy Reasons…: Thank god we don’t have to wait twelve years between films. Derek Cianfrance’s second film was my top pick of 2010. After his critically lauded sophomore film tomahawk chopped critics from Sundance to Cannes to TIFF, Blue Valentine producers wasted no time in backing his next project: a drama about family and motorcycles? It features Ryan Gosling (his career best was with Cianfrance) and its got tech folks such as Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt (Shame) and Production Designer specialist Inbal Weinberg.

Release Date/Status?: Cianfrance was invited to the Un Certain Regard section from the Cannes folks for a film that had already premiered at Sundance — I expect this to follow in the path of last year’s Drive – a Cannes Main Competition showing.