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Darren Aronofsky

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Looking Elsewhere

Browser: Conan vs. Colbert. Peterson and Leary on "The Wrestler"

1. Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien have a dance off! 2. At The Rabbit Room, Pete Peterson praises The Wrestler. Earlier: Michael Leary has a problem with The Wrestler.

Looking Elsewhere

Browser, 9/6: Aronofsky's Golden Lion!; Roger Ebert's Favorite Movie; What Richard Linklater, Orson Welles, and Zac Efron Have in Common?

ARONOFSKY'S WRESTLING PIC IS A VENICE FILM FEST CHAMP Darren Aronosfky, director of The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream, has just been given¬†the Golden Lion award¬†at the Venice Film Festival for his new film The Wrestler, which stars¬† Mickey Rourke.¬† Hopefully we'll hear

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Cairns and Overstreet Poetry! "Knocked Up." "All About Adam." "The Golden Compass." "Spidey 3." Helen Mirren. Aronofsky.

Here are a few links I've been saving up this week... Scott Cairns and Anne Overstreet both have poems in the new issue of Relief! Order your copy today! Ross Douthat on Knocked Up and its (surprising?) lack of talk about abortion. (Updated: Even more.) (Oh, and I

On Movies & Media

Is It "Ark Week"?

What is going on? I just posted a story about a guy who built an ark, and now I'm reading that Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) is building one too! The script, Aronofsky tells me, is no conventional biblical epic. "Noah was the first

The Fountain (2006)

The Fountain (2006)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. Question: What do a 16th-century conquistador, a 21st-century medical researcher, and a 26th-century astronaut have in common? Answer: A longing for eternal life. That's the premise of Darren Aronofsky's three-strand film The Fountain. In this dazzling new science

My Conversation(s) with Darren Aronofsky ("The Fountain," "Requiem for a Dream")

Earlier this month, I had a long conversation with director Darren Aronofsky, the man responsible for this year's most ambitious sci-fi film The Fountain, and who has also given us Requiem for a Dream and Pi. We talked by telephone about The Fountain, and about how it begs

Through a Screen Darkly

Darren Aronofsky Goes Through a Screen Darkly

What does Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain think of Through a Screen Darkly? After reading the first several chapters, he says: "Inspirational.... Sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book