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Early Buzz and Video Clip: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler
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Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler appears to be a big hit at the 65th Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter claims that the film created “a buzz that had been absent for most of the festival.” Anne Thompson reports that the film is hoping to land a distributor which could “ramp up a release before year’s end so that [Mickey] Rourke can qualify for Oscar consideration” making a December release very likely.
Here is a small excerpt from Variety’s review: “Talk about comebacks. After many years in the wilderness ...
Scene: 'Wrestler Clips' Hit Online - Mickey Rourke Rewrote All His Dialogue?
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Video has appeared on YouTube (via the AP video) featuring clips of the highly-anticipated, "The Wrestler." The video shows a scene with Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) giving advice to a younger wrestler ...
Venice ‘08: “The Wrestler” Wins the Golden Lion, Anne Hathaway Wins Nothing
Fataculture —
[image] Talk about a flat festival. This year Venice really amounted to almost nothing, in my humble, outsider’s opinion. I have always thought it to be the most glamorous, perhaps prestigious festival in the world, with the exception of Cannes, which it may very well be, but compared to other years it definitely seems to have made an abnormally small impact. Perhaps Toronto and Telluride clogging up the interwebs didn’t help, and that most US bloggers didn’t attend meant that there was less publicity. They are the loudest voices and without them on the scene, we hear a lot less. On the upside, “ The Wrestler ...
“The Wrestler” Wins the Golden Lion, Anne Hathaway Wins Nothing
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Talk about a flat festival. This year Venice really amounted to almost nothing, in my humble, outsider’s opinion. I have always thought it to be the most glamorous, perhaps prestigious festival in the world, with the exception of Cannes, which it may very well be, but compared to other years it definitely seems to have made an abnormally ...
A Glance at 'The Wrestler'
Cinematical —
I was remiss in posting this when it popped up via CHUD a few days ago -- but with The Wrestler winning the Golden Lion in Venice this week, it's as good a time as any. The buzz on this film is growing by the second, awards for Darren Aronofsky and Mickey Rourke probably wait in the wings, and all ...
The Wrestler Footage and Praise
TheMovingPicture.net —
Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, The Wrestler, recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival and quickly gained high praise from critics. The festival has now come to a close with the film winning top prize, The Golden Lion. Mickey Rourke stars in the film about a retired professional wrestler, Randy “The Ram” Robinson, making his way through the independent circuit. You can check out a new video below which features some clips and interviews with Aronofsky and Rourke.
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Darren Aronofsky Smacks Down Mickey Rourke
Awards Daily —
This clip popped up on Cinematical over the weekend and it’s interesting because it does show ...
Links and Shameless Self Promotion
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First, to get the self promotion out of the way, you can click here to listen to an hour long Blog Talk Radio program that I've been privileged to co-host with my good buddy Chris from his Trashcan Odorous Jr blog. We've got a good slot each week (Saturday 1-2pm central and 2-3 eastern) and we're both surprised how well the first gig came out. We spent a little more time talking about sports than film (which is our main purpose) but what the hell, it's our show. If you get past the 30 minute mark, we actually discuss film. And we had some great interaction from various people who stopped in. Very fun stuff and I look forward to show #2 ...
Rourke Has Come Through
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Rourke Has Come Through L.A. Weekly critic Scott Foundas has posted a frank, perceptive, and typically well written profile of Mickey Rourke , star of Darren Aronofsky 's The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight, 12.19), an almost-certain Best Actor nominee and by general consensus the Comeback Kid of 2008 . The timing of Foundas's article is a little unusual -- a few weeks after The Wrestler was hailed at the Toronto and Venice film festivals, and nearly three months before it'll open commercially . Obviously Foundas is foresaking the usual considerations to say to the industry, the press and the cognoscenti at large, "This is a major ...
