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Pi (1998)
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"Catherine Hardwicke hit one out of the park for female directors this past weekend, but she had a lot of help. Not only was she working with a pre-sold property, she also had a very manageable budget of $37 million. Quite different from the $2 million she had to work with on Thirteen a few years back. Of course, she had similar budgets on Lords of Dogtown ($25 million) and The Nativity Story ($35 million), and both were box office disappointments. Still, she’s going to keep on being trusted with more money — if Summit is smart they’ll keep her on for at least the first Twilight sequel, which will surely come with a higher price tag — and as long as she continues with genre films, she’s sure to remain a profitable director. Not every talented filmmaker does well with more money. Danny Boyle, for instance, typically bombs with bigger budgets. And a lot of foreign auteurs "
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A strange comparison
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"I recently saw Eraserhead, after months of waiting for it come back into stock on Amazon.com, and I loved it. It was, without a doubt, the strangest film I've ever seen, surpassing anything I've seen as of yet by far. I watched it with my sister, and she was actually disturbed for several days after watching it and I felt really bad...especially since I found it so amazing. Throughout the film, I kept thinking whether or not it was good that I saw the extremely similar Pi before I had seen Eraserhead. Pi is a very obvious tribute to this movie in more ways than one, and in more ways than the extremely obvious black and white (15mm?) film and the general surreal, bizarre tones. Both films are centered around a misfit, probably early 20s, disillusioned male in worlds and societies that neither of them can really even begin to understand. They both live in small, secluded inner-city apartments with very sexy neighbors that they are obviously very attracted to but are too scared t ... "
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Thought Provoking Science Fiction
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"Primer isn't a movie that tries to reach the lowest common denominator in terms of audience. It expects you to meet its concepts. And for those that do there is a great payoff. Four engineers in a tiny startup realize that they have built something amazing, but don't quite know what they have. Two of them figure out they have built a time machine and manage to buy out the others. At that point they start going back in time to make money on the stock market, always careful to avoid interfering with themselves or anyone they know. But eventually the temptation to interfere in their own lives becomes too great and the repercussions grow greater and greater. This harkens back to when science fiction movies were about ideas and not just explosions. There is a lot of tech talk, but is easy to follow and actually has meaning, unlike the techobabble in most science fiction movies. It isn't boring, but the deliberate pace of this movie may put some people off if they are expecting and actio ... "
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"After much deliberation, I have created a comprehensive list of my current 30 favorite movies ever made. I am still debating about it in my head, considering there are still so many more movies that I want to include on it. However, I widdled it down to 30. I'll reveal them periodically over the next few days, with my absolute favorites (1-10) having long explanations, and then after that getting shorter and shorter. Here's numbers 21-30 with brief explanations.21. The Shining Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of horror is in my humble opinion the scariest film ever made. I have never seen anything that has contained as much suspense and as much sheer terror as this movie. And while I usually don't like the genre a whole lot, I love this movie.22. The 40 Year Old Virgin/Knocked Up There was a tie here, and I figured I could group them together since it's the same crew. Apatow's movies have changed comedy, and both of these films are almost beyond hila ... "
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The Mysteries of Pi
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"Netflix is taking me through Aronofsky films, as I've mentioned previously, though I wish I had watched this film before Requiem, at the very least because this was his first feature, and Requiem was his second. There are more reasons than just that. I see that lots of people love this film. I can't say I love it. I like it - it was definitely a mindbending jaunt for a Sunday night movie, and it left me feeling about as wired as Max Cohen must've felt. It was complex and intellectually stimulating. The use of the 16 mm was a brilliant way to film it, lending to the surrealist atmosphere of it all. But - it was not the life-changing viewing experience I was kind of expecting it to be, what with all of the rave reviews I see everywhere, including on Spout and on Netflix.Max Cohen is a mathematical genius who has spent long, reclusive hours in his Chinatown (NYC) apartment on a homegrown computer system pockmarking his walls, attempting to unravel some sort of predi ... "
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Happy Pi day!
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"First of all, I would like to say that Pi Day is the worst holiday ever created, and I hope the creators of it die a terrible death (well, maybe not that bad, but I hope they at least get crapped on by a bird). However, since I recently saw Darren Aronofsky's outstanding film Pi, I figured that this holiday was good for something and that I would write something about it.As you can see, I did a recent post on another of Aronofsky's films, The Fountain, and as you can see, I was not a huge fan of it. As a result, I didn't have enormous expectations in seeing this movie. I mean, I remember that Requiem for a Dream was very good, but I saw that about three years ago, and I only saw the R-rated version, not the full one.Anyways, I found Pi to be an absolutely amazing movie. I was actually convinced of how much I was going to like it by the haunting techno music playing while on the menu screen of the DVD.Sean Gullette is surprisingly good as the lead character, a math g ... "
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Eraserhead vs. Pi
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"I just watched David Lynch's Eraserhead for the first time tonight. I found myself drawing many comparisons to Daren Aronofsky's Pi. There is the obvious link that they are both filmed in black and white. However the use of sound or noise to fill the empty void is in both films. The white out is in both. The sultry neighbor also present in both pieces. There is a unity in the grotequeness of the pictures with the dipection of the "baby" in Eraserhead being dicected, and the brain on the subway in PI. There is a drilling into the skull in each picture. A mechainacal devation in both.I enjoyed Pi more, but have tremendous respect for the work of David Lynch and his first feature seems to have been apperciated (copied) by many of the top directors working today. "
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"Tribeca Talks – Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents: Prodigies, Nobelists and Penguins: Science and Stereotypes in the Movies – May 5, 2007 (Left to right: Sidney Perkowitz, Darren Aronovsky and Billy Shebar)Panelists:Darren Aronovsky (DA) – Filmmaker, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, PiBilly Shebar (BS) – Screenwriter, Dark MatterModerator:Sidney Perkowitz (SP) – Professor of Physics at Emory University (SP) What do you think of how Hollywood portrays scientists in film?(BS) I’ve seen portraits that go either way, but things have gotten better and better. There used to be a lot of films with
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