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 [...]
Posted on February 22, 2011 at 8:42 pm by Victoria Olsen · Permalink
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In: contemporary, endings, film · Tagged with: Darren Aronofsky, Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, postaweek2011, Requiem for a Dream, William S. Burroughs
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 [...]
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 6:54 pm by Victoria Olsen · Permalink
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In: contemporary, film · Tagged with: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, postaweek2011, Requiem for a Dream
In: contemporary, film · Tagged with: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, postaweek2011, Requiem for a Dream