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"The Black Swan" writer-director Darren Aronofsky discusses his filmmaking choices with MakingOf
16 December 2009 6:16 AM, PST | Makingof.com | See recent Makingof.com news »
link: http://makingof.com/insiders/media/darren/aronofsky/director-discusses-collaboration-and-the-wrester/81/886
Today, MakingOf premieres it's third interview with writer-director Darren Aronofsky. The focus is on the collaborative nature of filmmaking, which in his opinion is all about "bringing different experts together to express themselves as a group." He further explains that his first three films ("Pi," "Requiem for a Dream," and "The Fountain") were shot using an identical crew but for "The Wrestler" he chose to shake things up and worked with an almost entirely different group. The key to success, he shares, is "surrounding yourself with people you respect and admire."
Aronofsky is currently working with his latest crew on the production of his fifth film "The Black Swan." The supernatural thriller is set in the world of New York ballet and the cast includes Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder and Vincent Cassel
In this interview, he also highlights that »
The Two Lives Of Daniel Shore Lays On The Atmosphere
24 November 2009 8:15 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
There does not yet appear to be a speck of English language information available for Michael Dreher's Die Zwei Leben Des Daniel Shore. Nothing on the IMDb. Nothing on the distributor and sales company website. Nothing in the German film foundation website. And forget English language information - none of these sources have anything in German, either. And, honestly, I'm fine with that, because if the trailer is anything to judge by this is a film best gone in to cold - a smartly atmospheric chiller that thrives on keeping its audience in the dark.
Written and directed by commercial and music video director Michael Dreher the trailer for this one actually leaves me thinking of Pal Sletaune's Naboer - a truly under seen gem of a film - as it follows a man slowly losing his grip on reality. Nikolai (son of Klaus) Kinski stars with Pi's »
Rock stars storm the movie soundtrack world
19 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Goldfrapp to Badly Drawn Boy, from Karen O to Nick Cave, more and more big names are lining up to write music for films. What makes the process so appealing?
'When you're writing a song, it's like you're the director, scriptwriter, cinematographer, everything. You're trying to create this little world, and although that's liberating, it's also a real head scratch. When you're just coming up with one part of the process, it's liberating in another way."
Alison Goldfrapp is trying to explain, I suspect to herself as much as anyone else, why she and her musical partner, Will Gregory, spent most of the summer frantically writing the score for Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood's biopic of the young John Lennon, when every shred of common sense suggested they should have been finishing the next Goldfrapp record instead. "It's enjoyable and fascinating to try and complement something that already exists," she continues. »
- Graeme Thomson
CinemaSpy's Week-End TV Recap (Nov. 14)
14 November 2009 9:10 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The big television news for the week preceding, was, of course, Fox's decision to cancel Dollhouse, a move not necessarily unexpected, but still lamented by fans of the show. Sadly, the writing had been on the wall from the beginning of the season—without a significant uptick in viewership, the series' life-expectancy would be short. It didn't happen...and it was. Dollhouse will return Dec. 4, with its series finale set for Jan. 22.
Fox's other genre series, Fringe, rebounded a bit to its pre-World Series numbers with a 3.7 rating/6 share. That equates to a 19 percent jump from the previous week, but still trails behind The CW, where the network's flagship skein, Smallville, finally regained some ground to tie its former Thursday night stablemate, Supernatural.
Over at ABC, V led all genre shows for the second week of sweeps, despite a more than 25 percent drop from its series premiere, earning a 6.6 rating/10 share, »
Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on 'Big Bang,' 'Grey's,' 'Glee,' and more!
11 November 2009 7:47 PM, PST | EW - Ausiello Files | See recent EW.com - The Ausiello Files news »
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Just want to say hi? You can send any/all of the above to ausielloscoop@ew.com Question: Is Izzie really pregnant on Grey's Anatomy? —Elle Ausiello: I'll say this: ABC's promo gurus are very sneaky! While we're on the subject of Katherine Heigl, sources confirm to me exclusively that she's taking another leave of absence from Grey's — but this time her reasons are personal, not professional. Heigl will be going on a belated maternity leave to spend some Qt with new daughter Naleigh. As a result, Izzie »
- Michael Ausiello
25 Most Disturbing Movies #6: Requiem for a Dream
9 November 2009 10:11 AM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Continuing Simon Augustine's countdown of the Most Disturbing Movies (Read Part 1 for the first 13). [<< #7]
6. Requiem For A Dream (2002) 9 (gross out)/8 (artistic merit)
Darren Aronofsky, the Diy auteur who burst onto the scene with the black and white religious-techno fable Pi, and more recently made the wrenching The Wrestler, may have reached a creative peak with this adaptation of a novel by one of the stars of the disturbing branch of the literary world: Hubert Selby, Jr., who also wrote the book Last Exit to Brooklyn. In perhaps the most jarring and skillfully unnerving chronicles of drug addiction ever made, we witness the destruction by heroin and prescription pills of a mother, her son, his girlfriend and best friend (Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans, all top-notch). »
- underdog
Winona Ryder et al. join Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan
9 November 2009 9:35 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
/Film has reported that Winona Ryder is one of three actors to join Darren Aronofsky’s psychological/supernatural chiller Black Swan. The latest from the director of Pi and Requiem For A Dream is set to roll in New York City within the next month.
Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey have also come aboard Black Swan, which stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a ballerina who finds herself competing with a newcomer named Lilly (Mila Kunis)—who may a hallucination or a ghostly apparition. (Whatever the case, Nina and Lilly reportedly have a very hot sex scene together). Ryder, whose genre credits include Bram Stoker’S Dracula, Lost Souls and Beetlejuice, plays a veteran dancer whose role Nina and Lilly are vying to take over; Cassell, from The Crimson Rivers, Brotherhood Of The Wolf and Sheitan, is the production’s “handsome but sinister” director; and Hershey, whom horror fans know from »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Cassel, Ryder and Hershey Join Aronofsky's Black Swan
9 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Though it would seem that he has yet to receive the mainstream attention he deserves (his highest grossing film garnered only $26 million at the box office), Darren Aronofsky is one of the most talented directors working today. With the exception of The Fountain, which, to be fair wasn't his original vision, the director has produced three fantastic films in his career. Requiem for a Dream still haunts me, Pi is a fantastic low-budget thriller, and what can be said about The Wrestler that hasn't already been said? His next project, The Black Swan, a supernatural drama about the New York City ballet, has had very few details revealed, though we have been informed that there will be "ecstasy-induced hungry aggressive angry sex" between Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. While that alone could get asses in the seats, /Film has revealed three new actors joining the cast that make the project »
Winona Ryder joins cast of sexy thriller ‘Black Swan’
9 November 2009 4:53 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Weird. I was just thinking, “You know what Black Swan needs? Some Winona Ryder.”
Poof! Wish granted. The Girl, Interrupted star will join the cast of Darren Aronofsky’s (The Wrestler, Pi) Black Swan. The 38-year-old will play Beth, a dancer who is entering the twilight of her professional dance career.
Joining Ryder will be Vicent Cassel and Barbara Hershey.
Black Swan focuses on a veteran New York City ballet dancer (Portman) who finds herself in an intensely competitive situation with a rival (Kunis), who might be a ghost or figment of Portman’s character’s imagination.
The film has made some earlier buzz due to an “extreme” sex scene between Portman and Kunis.
Production on Black Swan will begin this month and will hit theaters sometime in 2010.
Source: /Film
Related posts:Mila Kunis joins Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’Natalie Portman on ‘Black Swan’ sex scene with Mila Kunis »
- Reel Loop News Staff
The Voice Inside
6 November 2009 1:16 AM, PST | Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news »
Biff Juggernaught productions presents The Voice Inside, a black and white short film for fans of the slightly more extreme. The Voice Inside is a kinetic short following one characters battle with and final decent into madness. The film opens with an unnamed man sat on a subway train, at first all seems normal, but soon we learn just why the film is called The Voice Inside.
The main and only role is played by Elias who you can see in a very different role as the hapless reporter in LovecraCked! The Movie. This is a good turn from Elias as well, as we see him tormented by an inner voice. He at first tries to suppress it with medication, but is told it is now to strong to be held at bay. After returning home from the subway, he again tries his medication, but only finds himself vomiting heavily. »
- Leigh
Directors of the Decade: Darren Aronofsky
5 November 2009 7:19 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, continuing my series of the directors that shaped the past 10 years. Last week I wrote about a “love him” or “hate him” director that turned out to be mostly loved. So having promised such a man I feel like I let you down. I think I can do better with this week’s subject: Darren Aronofsky
Number of Films: Three.
Modern Masterpieces: Two. Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (this is called baiting the hook.)
Total Disasters: None.
Better than you remember: Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain if applicable.
Awards: Requiem and The Wrestler receive Oscar Nominations for acting. The Wrestler gets the Spirit Award for Best Picture. The Fountain goes mostly overlooked (because The Academy has no idea what a good movie score sounds like).
Box Office: The Wrestler is tops with over 23 mil. The Fountain tops 10 mil. Requiem in very limited release (thank »
- Robert
Trailer Park: Broken Toys, Serious Embraces
21 October 2009 1:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Full length trailer for the Disney/Pixar sequel in which Andy goes off to college leaving Woody, Buzz and the gang to be donated to a daycare center. Looks like a worthy successor to the franchise. The toys start getting real again on June 18.
In sort of a romantic comedy take on Misery, Meg Ryan plays a woman who duct tapes her cheating husband (Timothy Hutton) to the toilet and refuses to release him until he loves her again. Could be a cute idea but it's got a "wait for the DVD" feel. Watch for this one on December 4.
Dear John
Channing Tatum plays a soldier home on leave who falls in love with a college student (Amanda Seyfried) and carries on a long correspondence (hence the title) once he returns to duty. This is out on February 5.
The Missing Person
Filmnoir about a Pi »
- Matt Bradshaw
Top Ten Working American Directors
7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Top Ten Working American Directors
A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.
Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?
In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »
- David Frank
Quaids' Wild Ride a Tale of Drugs, Paranoia
29 September 2009 11:38 AM, PDT | newser.com | See recent newser news »
The arrest of Randy and Evi Quaid in Texas for stiffing a California hotel is only the latest twist in a bizarre tale of unpaid bills and paranoid fantasies. A private investigator hired by the Quaids—she’s out $17,000—tells Diane Dimond the actor and his wife owe tens of thousands on hotel rooms and rental cars, and they may be dangerously unstable. Evi snorts Demerol to cure migraines and believes a murder plot is afoot. The Pi tells Dimond, writing for the Daily Beast, that Evi thinks Michael Jackson and “Heath Ledger, Chris Penn, David Carradine, Natasha Richardson, »
Darren Aronofsky to Direct Story of Real-Life Robbery
21 September 2009 1:45 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Variety reports that director Darren Aronofsky will direct and produce a movie based on the robbery committed at the Securitas Depot in England three years ago. The crime, which was covered extensively by the BBC, ended up representing the largest amount of currency stolen in a single heist in Britain's history.
This represents yet another intriguing addition to Aronofsky's resume, which already includes a wildly eclectic variety of movies. He started off with sensory shock-flicks Pi and Requiem for a Dream, both of which had a hyperactivity reminiscent of graphic novels. Then there was the pseudo-spiritual weepie The Fountain, which had a more restrained style and a more melodramatic core. And last year, of course, he helmed the intimate character drama The Wrestler, which earned Mickey Rourke an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win.
Now, it appears Aronofsky is attracted to the idea of doing a heist flick, so »
- Rich Z Zwelling
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis to Play Scissor Sisters in Black Swan?
21 August 2009 10:39 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
I'm going to admit a minor sacrilege here and say that I've never really been a fan of Darren Aronofsky's work (with the possible exception of Pi). This isn't the time or place to explain why I find his films boring and pretentious, so I'll just move on to the fact that I couldn't care less when it was announced he was directing a haunted ballerina movie called Black Swan. Until Natalie Portman was cast. And Mila Kunis joined her. As if that wasn't enough to get me interested (it was), Carson Reeves over at ScriptShadow has posted a review of Mark Heyman's screenplay and he begins it this way: Can I just tell you why none of my review matters? Can I just tell you why my review is absolutely pointless? Because in this movie, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis have sex. Yeah. You read that right. And »
- Rob Hunter
Good News, Pervs! 'Black Swan' Has a Portman-Kunis Sex Scene!
20 August 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Darren Aronofsky's films -- Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain, The Wrestler -- have certainly not lacked strangeness or controversy, and it appears his next one, Black Swan, due in 2010, is no different. In a review of the screenplay, Carson Reeves at ScriptShadow reveals that the story includes a sex scene between the film's stars, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. And as you may know, Portman and Kunis are both female lady girl women persons!! Obviously, this automatically means the scene is hawt.
Reeves' script review has some significant spoilers, and not just the Internet crybaby "Oh no, you revealed a character's name!" kind, so proceed with caution over there. But the movie's premise is that Portman plays a sweet, innocent ballerina taking the lead in Swan Lake, and Kunis plays another ballerina who looks a lot like Portman but is much more reckless and "dark." How or »
- Eric D. Snider
Chicago Guy: All-Time Top Five
10 August 2009 1:19 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
We Are Movie Geeks would like to welcome the newest member of our little family and allow him the opportunity to introduce himself. Adam, aka The Chicago Guy, will be adding his own Chicago-style point-of-view on all things cinematic, movies that is.
All-Time Top Five Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love All Forms of Cinema Hello all! This is Adam, the newest writer for WeAreMovieGeeks.com. I will be your Chicago correspondent, covering all things cinematic related to the Windy City: premieres, screenings, Chi-town trivia, etc. This Midwest metropolis has been my home since 2003, and will be for a long time to come.
I blame my movie addiction on my dear big brother–and Wamg managing editor–Travis. As kids, we shared many a late night watching whatever we could get our hands on–from the latest blockbuster to the oldest, shlockiest horror movie Travis could find at the video store. »
- Adam
Natalie Portman Is A Black Swan
16 June 2009 12:17 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Following the success of The Wrestler Darren Aronofsky has the pick of any project that he wants in Hollywood. If all goes well Natalie Portman will star as a ballerina in Aronofsky’s supernatural thriller Black Swan.
The film was originally set up at Universal Pictures back in 2007, but it was put into turnaround (the studio decided not to make it and put the project up for sale). Aronofsky has recently been shopping the film around Hollywood and now with Portman’s attachment it looks like it may very well find a home.
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
“Swan centers on a veteran ballerina who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions.”
The film »
- Niall Browne
'Moon'
14 June 2009 10:05 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
There is the science fiction of 'Terminator' and 'Transformers', and then there is the science fiction of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris. While the first are consumed by technology and effects, the second rely more on ideas to drive the film forward. Duncan Jones' first feature, Moon, lies squarely in the second category, with its character-driven narrative and impressive performance by Sam Rockwell.
Set in the near future, Moon exists in a time where most of Earth gets its power from Helium-3, a powerful compound that is mined on the far side of the moon. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of his three-year contract with Lunar Industries, the company behind the mining, after which, he can return home to live with his wife and daughter.
The three years in almost complete isolation at the Sarang station have not been kind to Sam; with only a »
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