nymag.com - 12/18/2008
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Brooklyn s own Darren Aronofsky spent the eighties listening to hip-hop and being a whiz kid at school, so it s probably a bit strange to see him making a movie about a has-been pro wrestler who still fights to the strains of forgotten metal heroes like Accept and Cinderella. Aronofsky burst ...
rottentomatoes.com - 12/19/2008
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Synopsis: At first glance, Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER
may seem like a departure for the oftentimes frenetic...
filmmaker, and in some ways it is. When this story of a past-his-prime performer is compared... At first glance, Darren Aronofsky's THE ...
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The Wrestler Movie Reviews, Pictures
slashfilm.com - 12/18/2008
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I’m usually pretty professional in my business replies
but when Fox Searchlight asked me if I would...
like to host an exclusive video clip of the director of my favorite movie of the year interviewing the director of my second favorite movie ...
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Exclusive: Darren Aronofsky Interviews Danny Boyle on ...
littleblogtoo.blogspot.com - 12/16/2008
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I’m a sucker for a big comeback story
(I’ll never forget the thrill I experienced as a...
child in 1980, when I spotted Angie Dickinson on the cover of People magazine around the time she starred in Dressed to Kill , and a few years after her Police ...
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Mickey Rourke Fights His Way Back in The Wrestler
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Aronosfky On 'The Wrestler' Music: "Two People Connecting Over Ratt — That’s So Much More Unique"
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... Darren Aronofsky talked to Vulture yesterday and there's a graph about the music in "The Wrestler." The NYMag blog notes while there are big bands like Guns N' Roses are used in the film, there's also lesser hair and cheese metal bands like Ratt and Accept in the film. Aronofsky's pretty damn funny in this graph about Mickey Rourke and the music used in the film. (check the Brad Pitt 'Inglourious' 'stache, someone has started a trend). ...
Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" Pleases Mankind, Annoys Iran
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... a failure... I'd write another novel." But after attending a screening of the movie, Foley was moved by Mickey Rourke's performance as the faded '80s wrestling icon Randy "the Ram" Robinson, honoring the actor's ability to make "the pathetic seem heroic", and impressed by the film's documentary-style atmosphere. (Aronofsky shot with "working independent wrestlers" and shot "at real independent wrestling shows"; as the director mentions in this interview, this level of verisimitude extended even to the scenes at a New Jersey ...
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