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This is the first of a few new images from Darren Aronofsky's upcoming psychological/supernatural/who-the-hell-know-what thriller Black Swan. Take a look at the others below.





The movie is about a ballerina and her arch-rival and stuff and scenes of Natalie Portman TURNING INTO A FREAKING BLACK SWAN OMGWTF!!!???

Pretty creepy, huh? Not nearly as creepy as the trailer, here it is in case you missed it:



I may be in the minority here, but I'm hoping Black Swan is a return to the kind of ambitious, meditative storytelling Aronofsky displayed in The Fountain, rather than the more pedestrian effort that The Wrestler was. What do you think yoo how the movie looks so far?

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[Carrie]

De Palma was perhaps my favourite director growing up, primarily for his shooting style, though even then I knew his movies were very hit and miss. I'm glad someone else thought Carrie was dull because I sure did. Mission: Impossible is an underrated movie. The visuals of the first hour of Snake Eyes are pure cinema. Scarface is very good. Untouchables is great. Carlito's Way is an excellent gangster flick, the pool table scene, for example, is a textbook example of how to do a ramped up suspense scene. His weakest movies, and there are a lot of them, are often where he writes them himself, the ones that are pale attempts to carbon copy a Hitchcock story (Obsession vs Vertigo, Raising Cain/Dressed to Kill vs Psycho). Mission to Mars and Femme Fatale are crap. The Black Dahlia is not awful, just horribly miscast.

I just want HD movies on a hard drive. A movie library that's part of my TV where I can browse like iTunes.

Scott Pilgrim had an adequate story but the real gem is Edgar Wright

You realise he dropped like six eighths of the story and fudged the ending? Not that I have anything against the movie, I just thought it was worth mentioning. Also I'm not happy about feeling exactly the same way about the movie as DJaws, it feels unnatural.

Scarface and Untouchables definitely have their moments, I must admit. But both are wildly uneven and over rated. The best scene in The Untouchables is stolen from Potemkin and Scarface is REALLY over the top performance-wise. Still own it and enjoy it though.

I'd have to say, no joking, that DePalma's best work that I've seen is Mission: Impossible. The script is actually very smart with the right touch of old-school silly charm. And his long, hovering aerial shots actually MEAN something (conveying a voyeuristic feeling that makes sense in that storyverse). Though I haven't seen Carlito's Way, so I'll hold out judgment until then.

Scott Pilgrim had an adequate story but the real gem is Edgar Wright, he is a genius director in top form on this film. I'm so sad it didn't find an audience outside of hipsters and I hope the flop doesn't adversely effect his next one.

[Scott Pilgrim]

'On the Waterfront' is where Brando really shows his acting genius. I have to say I agree with you about De Palma. I recently saw a film called 'Raising Cain' that he directed, it's pretty dreadful. He has done some good stuff though, some of the set pieces in The Untouchables, Carlitos Way and Scarface are pretty immense.

Scott Pilgrim- I enjoyed it but didn't love it quite as much as I thought I would. I would actually go as far to say I preferred Kick-Ass. I think the fact that I am very familliar with the source material effected my enjoyment of it because a lot of the dialogue and even shots were lifted straight out of the comics, I found that a bit distracting to begin with. It was great fun though and Edgar Wright's direction was brilliant, I just hope he gets this much money and creative freedom again in the future.

[Carrie]

Carrie - utterly horrible, like a bad joke. Cements in my mind that DePalma really is a bad director. His long continuous shots are meaningless and force the actors to depend on shitty blocking ... absolutely unscary, silly, bullshit. Why this is a classic was beyond me until the pig blood scene, which is pretty fucking cool I must admit. The look on her face is fucking awesome. But it's the ONLY moment in the entire movie that didn't bore me to tears.

Last Tango in Paris - Brando, though not the acting genius many would have you think, is perfectly cast in this. The camera work and lighting are stunning, and the scenes of debasement are so "tame" by todays standards yet so hard to watch. And I love how, after sodomy and filthy role playing, that interrupting a tango feels far more profane. Awesome film making.

Le Crap!


If it's the same in the States see if you can get me a screener?

Makes me sad.

Just got an e-mail from the distributors, The Hole is going straight to dvd in the UK. Can't be that good then. On DVD the 3D will be pretty pointless. Poor Joe Dante. The greatest living American director will be back.

What a remarkably honest concert.