Ryan Gosling (Canada, 1980)

There is a great generation of actors turning promising directors out there. People born in the late seventies, early eighties like Joseph Gordon Levitt or James Franco try to make movies these days. In which they succeed, like Levitt’s lovely Don Jon (2013) or fail, like Franco, who, although he seems like a really cool guy, does not seem to get out a decent film. I liked his co-directing contribution to the metafictional Interior Leather Bar (2013) though. And he still remains fucking awesome in Spring Breakers (2012) as Alien and in This is the End (2013) as himself.

Canadian actor and future filmmaker Ryan Gosling did one of the best films of the last 4 years, Drive (2011) and some other good stuff like the two films he did with Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine (2010) and The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), where his part is awesome, the other two parts mediocre. He is not only good-looking but he looks like a really great guy in interviews so I kind of trust him with his directing career. That despite the fact Lost River [How to Catch a Monster] (2014) predicts to be fantasy, which is like the worst genre after action-comedy. Another reason I have faith in his project , is because of cinematographer Benoît Debie who also did splendid work for Spring Breakers, Enter the Void (2009) and Irréversible (2002).

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