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07-18-2005, 09:03 AM
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MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #208 - THE FILMS OF DARREN ARONOFSKY
Rate 'em, Rank 'em, Review 'em, whatever
Volume #208: Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain (2005)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pi (1998)
Protozoa (1993)
Supermarket Sweep (1991)
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 313 Last Watched: Time of the Gypsies
Last 10 Films Watched:
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
Lost Boys: The Tribe - C+ / The War of the Gargantuas - B
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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07-18-2005, 09:10 AM
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Another emerging American director I'm a fan of, but he certainly couldn't be described as prolific. Although he has had some projects fall through, like Batman. Jim may be interested to know that after completing The Fountain, he's supposed to go to work on a Lone Wolf and Cub movie.
*1. Requiem For A Dream - A (I'll always remember seeing this for the 1st time. I was in LA on the first HTF trip in 2000. My heart was literally pounding in my chest during the montage finale. I've rarely had such an extreme physical reaction to a movie. I went back a day later (with HTF'er Jason Whyte) and saw it again, then saw it again when I got back from LA)
*2. Pi - A-
3. The Fountain - B (would have loved to see the original concept before the budget cuts. Just feels like a good deal of material is missing)
Own: 2
Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 313 Last Watched: Time of the Gypsies
Last 10 Films Watched:
Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
The Third Mother - B+ / The Mist - A
Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B
Lost Boys: The Tribe - C+ / The War of the Gargantuas - B
DVD BEAVER My Collection
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07-18-2005, 10:17 AM
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My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5
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07-18-2005, 10:33 AM
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Out of 
The Fountain (2005) Is it even possible to have seen this yet?
Requiem for a Dream (2000) 1/2 When I first saw this, I thought it had replaced Leaving Las Vegas as the most depressing movie ever made, but it has weakened for me since then. It lacks a certain profound nature Vegas serves up in spades, and I prefer Figgis' tact and ability to have the theme of self-destruction just below the surface. Still, Aronofsky made some fine decisions with his more bold approach to what is essentially the same theme. He also elicited some outstanding performances.
Pi (1998) Quirky and interesting.
Protozoa (1993)
Supermarket Sweep (1991)
I own DVDs of both movies I have seen.
Geez Brook, if you really want a short list, why not do one on Sofia Coppola?
They flutter behind you, your possible pasts.
Some bright-eyed and crazy, some frightened and lost.
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07-18-2005, 12:46 PM
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DARREN ARONOFSKY
Seen: 2
Like: 0
Own: 0
Rank order:
Pi (1998)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
I didn't like Pi at all, but I hated Requiem with a passion. I frankly just don't get it. What's so appealing about watching a bunch of fucked up drug addicts get more fucked up? It's all a matter of taste I guess, but I just don't see the appeal of this or Trainspotting or Leaving Las Vegas or Sid & Nancy or any of the other let's watch a bunch of drug addicts get worse and die. 
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk
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07-18-2005, 01:02 PM
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What's so appealing about watching a bunch of fucked up drug addicts get more fucked up?
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I realize this is a rhetorical question, but some folks like seeing darker material if for no other reason than it is just as valid an examination of the human condition as any unlikely blue sky, pollyanna-ish, sugar-coated, concoction that might appeal to other viewers. In fact, probably more so, since you can always count on bad things happening. In other words, darker works ( at least for me ) tend to have more credibility or realism in terms of my world view.
Requiem For A Dream - Ellen Burstyn was robbed at the Academy Awards.
Pi 
I have very high expectations for The Fountain.
Oh yeah, and BTW I love Requiem For A Dream, Leaving Las Vegas, and Trainspotting.
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