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filmlinc.com - 10/6/2008

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Scene Photo The Wrestler Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Darren Aronofsky, Country: USA, Release: 2008, Runtime: 109 With his hearing aid and graying hair, pro wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson may be past his prime, but Mickey Rourke has never been ...

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theplaylist.blogspot.com - 10/13/2008

Exclusive: Brad Pitt Won't Appear In Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fighter'

— theplaylist.blogspot.com — Just last week we posted a belated script review of " The Fighter ," a blue collar,... redemptive boxing true story about " Irish" Mickey Ward and his trainer and brother, Dicky Eckland to be directed by moody nu-auteur Darren Aronofsky . We basically ... (more) Exclusive: Brad Pitt Won't Appear In Darren Aronofsky's ...

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slashfilm.com - 10/13/2008

Two Video Clips from The Wrestler

— slashfilm.com — /Film reader Nick O. forwarded me these clips from Darren Aronofsky ’s The Wrestler . The first... clip shows a scene between Mickey Rourke and Evan Rachel Wood , who play’s Randy’s estranged daughter. Rourke has been getting Best ... (more) Two Video Clips from The Wrestler

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slashfilm.com - 10/13/2008

The Fighter: Pitt Out; Wahlberg Worried; Location Scouting

— slashfilm.com — It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a concrete update on Darren Aronofsky ’s The Fighter ,... the real-life story of boxer “Irish” Micky Ward’s (to be played by Mark Wahlberg ) unlikely road to the world ... (more) The Fighter: Pitt Out; Wahlberg Worried; Location Scouting

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NYFF. The Wrestler.
GreenCine Daily — The Wrestler (site) "may best be described as an existentialist tragicomedy about the nature of identity and performance, but the movie itself is as light as low-calorie mayonnaise - which is saying a lot when you consider that, in director Darren Aronofsky's previous film, The Fountain (2006), even a mere snowflake was hunkered down with several tons of symbolic importance," writes Scott Foundas in Cinema Scope. "The result is a movie far closer in look and feel to the New American Cinema of the 70s (which ...

NYFF 2008: "The Wrestler."
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... Mickey Rourke is one magnificent wreck. "The Wrestler" holds off from giving you the full-frontal of his face for a while, as if he were the monster in a low-budget horror flick. When it does finally creep around, you see misplaced tautness, semi-mobile features, starlet lips, an overall impression of carved putty. One of the film's visual jokes is that Rourke's character, faded pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, is a shambling but still formidable hunk of meat, but he's aging in the style of a South Beach matron. It's not just the too often overhauled mug ...