It looks like Natalie Portman will continue to rack up more projects to put on the upcoming list. The Academy Award winner is set to play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming biopic from No director Pablo Larrain, according to Variety. The film will chronicle the first four days in Jackie Kennedy’s life after the assassination …
Though this year’s Noah turned a lot of heads and made more than a handful of viewers frustrated, be it for declining to use the word “God” or just including Rock Titan Angel things into a Biblical story, Darren Aronofsky still remains a highly valued director and ever rising auteur in Hollywood. Aronofsky is currently …
10. Altered States (1980) Directed by: Ken Russell Is it a horror film? Many of Ken Russell’s films could be argued as such, but there’s enough in Altered States that makes it less horror and more science fiction/psychological thriller. Based on the novel by Paddy Chayefsky, Altered States introduced the world to William Hurt (and …
20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Directed by: Terry Gilliam So…drugs, right? Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 novel of the same title, Fear and Loathing stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively. The pair is heading to Sin City, speeding through the Nevada desert, under …
15. Stranger by the Lake Directed by Alain Guiraudie Written by Alain Guiraudie France Though Stranger by the Lake premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival (and appeared on Sound On Sight’s best of 2013 list), it finally reached North American audiences in January of this year. Alain Guiraudie’s stunning noir-tinged thriller is …
Picking the best movies that come out in any given year is no easy feat. For film fans, a quality feature can come out at any time, from any one, and discovering an enjoyable and well-crafted feature is truly a pleasure. As we reach the halfway point of the year, many excellent films have already …
Sean Gullette, writer and director of Traitors, is known for his many collaborations with Harvard friend and colleague Darren Aronofsky. Playing the lead role and sharing story credit in Aronofsky’s debut feature, Pi, Gullette has since acted in two dozen films, including Requiem for a Dream and Happy Accidents. Now Gullette is bringing his masterful crime …
Darren Aronofsky As the contemporary director most obsessed with the idea of obsession, Aronofsky would be a great fit for an episode or whole season of True Detective. Often, in the more intelligent entries in the genre, detective series focus not just on plot but on how the horrific events that take place within the …
Noah HC Writer: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel Art: Niko Henrichon Letters: Nicolas Sénégas Publisher: Image Comics Purchase: http://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/noah-hc If people could put aside their religious hang-ups, they would notice that the Bible is rife with morally complex stories worthy of their attention and focus. There is a reason that these stories have been shared for …
The difficulty in counting down films so clearly influenced by Kubrick is that there are certain directors who are just tailor-made for it. So, you start to run into situations like this section of the list, where two directors have two films and two other directors had a film mentioned in the last section. But …
There’s something inherently lonely and tortured about being a director. Yes, you’re the tyrant of the set and dictator of the vision, but you’re also the man (or woman) behind the curtain, the puppet master who never appears on stage….unless you’re Clint Eastwood or Quentin Tarantino. Or Alfred Hitchcock….or Roman Polanski…ANYWAY, the point is that …
For better or worse, films don’t exist in a vacuum. If literature derives from itself, and, according to Marshall McLuhan, the content in any new medium is always the same as in the old, then films don’t exactly have a wealth of opportunities to be original. You can always compare a film to one that …
The Fountain Directed by Darren Aronofsky Screenplay by Darren Aronofsky & Ari Handel US, 2006 A return to the biblical epic for Hollywood has seen eyes drawn once more towards one Darren Aronofsky, coveted Tinselltown Director and creative force behind 2014’s Noah, a star studded and hugely ambitious leviathan of a picture reminiscent of 1950’s …
Off-White Lies Directed by Maya Kenig Written by Maya Kenig and Dana Diment Israel/France, 2011 As a parent, you can’t prepare the world for your children; the best you can do is prepare your children for the world. So what happens when a homeless, estranged father readopts his teenage daughter amongst the backdrop of a …
Having focused perhaps too much attention on the negatives in cinema during recent musings, whether it’s the possibly warped conservatism of the Oscars, or films that are depressingly poor, time has come for this writer to look at some positives. So what could be more positive than the films that you simply must watch again, …
Darren Aronofsky is currently one of my five favourite American filmmakers working today, so needless to say, I was extremely disappointed when I discovered he would not direct the next Wolverine film. However in the long run it is probably for the best since it will give the director time to work on more …
What’s a man to do after such a wonderfully intense year of having his film Black Swan be judged on numerous occasions/awards ceremonies and garnering just as many accolades? He is going to judge other films. Darren Aronofsky has been handpicked to be the president of the International Jury for the Competition at the 2011 …
I love director Darren Aronofsky. Black Swan was my favorite film of 2010 and The Wrestler topped my list back in 2008. Unfortunately, his new two minute spot for Yves Saint Laurent is really lame. The ad stars his latest muse Vincent Cassel, who pretty much roams about stalking beautiful women in an almost dialogue-free …
Not too long ago it was reported that Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky would be directing what seemed to be a very promising sequel to the Wolverine. Unfortunately, now it seems that Aronofsky won’t be directing the film after all. In a statement with the Hollywood Reporter Aronofsky said: “As I talked more about the …
Darren Aronofsky is no stranger to drugs and movies. His 2000 heroin-and-pills drama Requiem for a Dream cemented his auteur status and scored him a loyal cult following. Now according to 24 Frames, the director is returning to the world of drug films with Intricate, “a story of a promising young athlete who finds himself …
Dominic Sidhu curated a series of contemporary artworks that appear within the sets of the film Black Swan. The exhibit presented by Regen Projects includes the works of such great artists as Matthew Barney, Walead Beshty, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Katharina Fritsch and Christopher Wool. For the exhibition, Sidhu interrogates metaphysical interpretations of the myth of …
Recently we’ve seen many big-name filmmakers directing TV commercials on the side, and next in line is Sofia Coppola. Following her very successful work for Chérie a couple of years ago, that became a YouTube sensation, Coppola was hired back for a new campaign for the fragrance. The new ad for Cherie fragrance has premiered …
Cinematographer, Matthew Libatique once again did a brilliant job in Black Swan. Shooting with a mixture of documentary-style handheld and traditional set-ups, the gorgeous visuals and deliberately jarring edits helped sustain the manic pace of the film. Graphic and harsh at times, yet beautiful and poetic, Black Swan also features some of the best use …