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Darren Aronofsky |
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Director / Screenwriter |
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1969 - |
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Born February 12,
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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Key
Production Country: USA |
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Key Genres:
Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction |
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Key
Collaborators: Mark Margolis (Character Player), Clint Mansell
(Composer), Matthew Libatique (Cinematographer), Eric Watson (Producer), Ellen Burstyn (Leading Player), Sean Gullette (Leading
Character Player), Jay Rabinowitz (Editor), Andrew Weisblum (Editor), Ben Shenkman (Character
Player), James Chinlund (Production
Designer) |
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Worth
a Look: Pi (1998),
Requiem for a Dream (2000)*^, The Wrestler (2008)^, Black Swan (2010)^ |
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Approach with Caution:
The Fountain (2006) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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[
IMDB ]
[
TCMDB ]
[
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Darren Aronofsky.com ] [
Wikipedia ] [
Film.com Interview (2009) ] [
indieWIRE Interview ]
[
Flickering Myth Profile ] |
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"Aronofsky
is drawn to characters in the grip of compulsion and
addiction. Requiem for A Dream, like Pi, is
powered by its protagonists' desperation and their descent
into various private hells... Like Pi and Requiem
for a Dream, The Fountain centers on the self-isolation
of a character trapped in his own bubble of existence.
Whether by choice or compulsion, Aronofsky's films ask if
everyone is fatally trapped in their own private worlds." -
Matt Hills, 501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers (2007)
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"The
unifying theme of Aronofsky's work – epitomised by The
Wrestler – is a fixation on the body and its fragility.
Mickey Rourke's character is unable to surrender the
spotlight despite the havoc his vocation wreaks on his
ageing body. The obsessions of Pi's protagonist are
manifested in crippling migraines. Requiem for a Dream's
haunting depiction of drug addiction makes it an
ultra-effective, 102-minute public health warning: one
character loses his arm, another her sanity."
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Tim Walker, The Independent (2011) |
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"Darren
Aronofsky
secured a reputation as a brash, intelligent filmmaker at
the age of 29, with Pi,
his 1998 feature directorial and screenwriting debut... A
self-described "Brooklyn hip-hop kid," Aronofsky was born in
the borough on February 12, 1969. His upbringing was marked
by his Jewish heritage, painting graffiti art on subway
cars, and filmgoing in Times Square. An alumnus of the New
York public school system, he attended Harvard, where he
studied live action and animation and met future
collaborator and Pi
star Sean Gullette." -
Rebecca Flint Marx (All-Movie Guide) |
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"To me,
watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My
worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a
good ride." -
Darren Aronofsky |
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"Though
none of his features to date fit then genre per se, Darren
Aronofsky is in some ways a horror director at heart, given
his films' fascination with deranged paranoia and physical
affliction, as well of his use of subjective camera and
exaggerated sound design to mimic jumbled, monomaniacal and
sometimes even psychopathic states of mind. Another
Aronofsky trademark is the repeated, rapid-fire sequence
deployed like a musical refrain: the trembling hand and
gulping of pills that forecasts the protagonist's crippling
headaches in [Pi], and the accelerated montage of
needles, vessels and contracting pupils that shorthand
administering a heroin fix in Requiem for a Dream.
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Jessica Winter, The Rough Guide to
Film |
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21st Century Top 50 |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Danny Boyle |
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David Cronenberg |
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David Fincher |
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Terry Gilliam |
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David Lynch |
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Roman Polanski |
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Steven Soderbergh |
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Vincent Ward |
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Lars von Trier |
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Darren Aronofsky's Favourites |
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Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam,
Breaking Away (1979)
Peter Yates,
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Sergio Leone,
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Sergio Leone,
Time Bandits (1981)
Terry Gilliam,
Yojimbo (1961)
Akira Kurosawa.
Source: First Showing.net (2008) |
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