MoviesOnline! (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
MoviesOnline sat down with Evan Rachel Wood to talk about her new film, “The Wrestler,” directed by Darren Aronofsky, which had its North American premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and won the Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Back in the late ‘80s, Randy “The Ram” Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out...
Live for Films (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
MTV were speaking to Darren Aronofsky, whose new movie, “The Wrestler,” won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival two months ago, and has just been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards for Best Feature, Best Cinematography and Best Male Lead ( Mickey Rourke). Interestingly Aronofsky said he would like to do a sort of recut on his film, “The Fountain,” (check out the review for The
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Ever since Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and inspired one of those famed late-night bidding wars in Toronto , everyone has been all aflutter to see the film. It’s due to close the 46th New York Film Festival on October 12th (and released by Fox Searchlight in theaters in December) but those wrinkled press and industry types got to see the film this...
/Film (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Darren Aronofsky is the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. His latest film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was bought by Fox Searchlight the morning after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (You can read my review here). Earlier this week, I was granted the [...]
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
At the weekend the Venice Film Festival Awards 2008 were handed out. The Wrestler, written by Robert D. Siegel and directed by Darren Aronofsky, won The Golden Lion. The Special Jury Prize went to Teza, which was written and directed by Haile Gerima. Gerima also won the Best Screenplay award.Hunger, which was co-written by Steve McQueen and Edna Walsh, and directed by Steve McQueen, won the Gucci...
/Film (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Darren Aronofsky is the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. His latest film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was bought by Fox Searchlight the morning after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (You can read my review here). Earlier this week, I was granted the [...]
/Film (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Darren Aronofsky is the director of Pi, Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain. His latest film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was bought by Fox Searchlight the morning after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (You can read my review here). Earlier this week, I was granted the [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Mickey Rourke's comeback hopes are looking pretty good these days — Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler , in which Rourke stars as an aging ex–WWE titan, won the Golden Lion this weekend at the Venice Film Festival. The film's victory made Rourke ineligible for individual prizes like the Coppa Volpi award for best actor (that went to Silvio Orlando of Italian film Il papa di Giovanna ), but jury president...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Mickey Rourke, an actor I have championed since nearly day one at Moon in the Gutter stunned audiences over the weekend with his performance in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming The Wrestler , which took home the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. No less that Wim Wenders had this to say about the film and Mickey's performance, "This is for a film with a truly heartbreaking performance in the very...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
As the distinguished Venice film festival was coming to an end, several selected movies have been given the honor with its special awards.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Darren Aronofsky’s “Wrestler,” starring Mickey Rourke, won the coveted Golden Lion at the 65th Venice Film Festival.
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Venice Film Festival will be remembered for Rourke’s performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler“, which the actor and critics agree is his best yet. “The...
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
The Wrestler has just been awarded the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice Film Festival. Darren Aronofsky’s film won rave reviews at the festival and will be now screened at the Toronto Film Festival. A lot of praise of lavished over the spirited performance of the lead actor Mickey Rourke. Other winners included Aleksey German Jr., who won the Silver Lion for Best Director for his work on Bumaznyj Soldat,...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
The film The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke and directed by Darren Aronofsky, won the Venice Film Festival's top award, the Golden Lion, at a closing ceremony late last night.
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and directed by Darren Aronofsky, was awarded the Golden Lion today at the Venice Film Festival. The film centers on a wrestler (Rourke) forced into retirement. He sets into motion a romance with an aging stripper (Tomei.) It’s hard to see Tomei as an aging stripper; she looked [...]
