Run, don't walk, to your nearest neighbourhood video store, and rent "Requiem for a Dream", Darren Aronofsky's followup to "Pi". Released in 2000, it received a standing ovation at Cannes, though one journalist vomited after the screening (what does that mean?). Very powerful and disturbing. If Ellen Burstyn is not one of the greatest American actresses of all time, I don't know....her monologue with smack-addled son Harry (Jared Leto), is one of the greatest pieces of drama I have seen since Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
Soundtrack mainly by Kronos Quartet, though I thought David could certainly have been involved, and wonder what that would have sounded like.
If anybody else out there in DB land has seen it, I'd like to know what you think.
Happy 4th,
Gene
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Run, don't walk, to your nearest neighbourhood video store, and rent "Requiem for a Dream", Darren Aronofsky's followup to "Pi". Released in 2000, it received a standing ovation at Cannes, though one journalist vomited after the screening (what does that mean?). Very powerful and disturbing. If Ellen Burstyn is not one of the greatest American actresses of all time, I don't know....her monologue with smack-addled son Harry (Jared Leto), is one of the greatest pieces of drama I have seen since Elizabeth Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
Soundtrack mainly by Kronos Quartet, though I thought David could certainly have been involved, and wonder what that would have sounded like.
If anybody else out there in DB land has seen it, I'd like to know what you think.
Happy 4th,
Gene
Soundtrack mainly by Kronos Quartet, though I thought David could certainly have been involved, and wonder what that would have sounded like.
If anybody else out there in DB land has seen it, I'd like to know what you think.
Happy 4th,
Gene
