Higher Love
When I watched Drugstore Cowboy (1989) last week I hadn’t seen it since the ’90s, when I lived on the West Coast. The film is set in the Pacific Northwest in the ’70s and it brought back memories of vintage clothing stores and pastel-painted houses. It made me realize how much Darren Aronofsky had borrowed from [...]
In: contemporary, endings, film · Tagged with: Darren Aronofsky, Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, postaweek2011, Requiem for a Dream, William S. Burroughs
Eye Candy
Black Swan makes more sense now that I’ve seen more of Darren Aronofsky’s work. Requiem for a Dream (2000) explodes with so many visual pyrotechnics that it is hard to focus on anything else. The shots are beautifully composed: for an example, look at the circular frame of papers behind the characters in the shot [...]
In: contemporary, film · Tagged with: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, postaweek2011, Requiem for a Dream
New Endings
I’d like to inaugurate the new beginning of the year and my blog with a piece about endings. What follows is a new direction for me, but one that is continuous with my earlier readings of photographs. This year I will post short, essay-like reviews of films –some recent, some less so–that come out of [...]
In: contemporary, endings, film · Tagged with: Black Swan, Christopher Nolan, Coen Brothers, Darren Aronofsky, Inception, Martin Scorsese, postaweek2011, Robbie Robertson, The Last Waltz, True Grit