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Guy Maddin Made A Cinematic Love Letter To San Francisco And Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’

Matthew Monagle — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:55:04 +0000

The San Francisco International Film Festival had a pretty ambitious idea for its 60th anniversary: commission filmmaker Guy Maddin to construct a new cinematic love letter to San Francisco using movies and television shows set around the city. To hear Maddin tell it though, that idea quickly evolved into something more focused on a single film, Alfred Hitchock‘s seminal classic “Vertigo.” The resulting feature is titled “The Green Fog — A San Francisco Fantasia” and it closed the San Francisco Film Festival with live musical accompaniment from the Kronos Quartet.

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Will Darren Aronofsky Recut/Revisit ‘The Fountain’?

Rodrigo Perez — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:59:00 +0000

MTV’s Kurt Loder went to a Fox Searchlight holiday party in New York last night (where was our invite 🙁 ) and caught up with “The Wrestler” director Darren Aronofsky.

The director said he was “mulling” over his next project, but no details as to which one exactly that would be.

However, he did say that at some point, possibly in a few years when he has some time, he’d like to revisit his underappreciated 2006 sci-fi romance, “The Fountain.”

“It wouldn’t be a ‘director’s cut,’” he said — more like an alternate story told with the addition of unused footage from the first go-round.

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Darren Aronofsky Building Noah’s Ark

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:11:00 +0000

The Guardian is reporting that the next movie filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (“Requiem For A Dream,” “PI“) will tackle is the biblical tale about Noah’s Ark. Considering that his high-minded and super-ambitious, but viscerally polarizing, “The Fountain,” contained many religious and existential themes, this news is not totally surprising.

“Noah was the first person to plant vineyards and drink wine and get drunk,” Aronofsky told the Guardian. “It’s there in the Bible – it was one of the first things he did when he reached land.

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