Darren Aronofsky

Black Swan - A taut psychological backstage thriller

Darren Aronofsky's intense and involving companion piece to The Wrestler

(15) 108min Darren Aronofsky’s follow up to The Wrestler is a similarly intense and involving companion piece. Parallels can be drawn between the struggles of Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson at the end of his working life with the more immediate drama of…

The best upcoming events in Scotland in 2011

Highlights of the 2011 cultural calandar from Film, Music, Comedy, Theatre and Visual Art

Huge gigs, inspiring theatre productions, comedy legends and two cute little waving bears – just a few of the things coming up in ‘11 that we can barely contain our excitement about

Lights, camera, action - Edinburgh International Film Festival launches programme

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has launched its much-anticipated line-up boasting 135 features from 33 countries and 23 world premieres. Recent Oscar-winner Kate Winslet is expected to inject some glamour to the proceedings, work schedule…

Edinburgh International Film Festival announces programme

The Edinburgh International Film Festival was announced today. The programme Includes 135 features from 33 countries and includes 23 World Premieres. Highlights from the programme include opening film Away We Go from British director Sam Mendes on 17…

Best of 2011: Films

Best films of 2011, including Drive, Neds, A Separation, Black Swan and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy Starring a firmament of male British character actors, this taut, sparse and moody le Carré adaptation, directed by Swede Tomas ‘Let The Right One In’ Alfredson, is an incredibly stylish orange-tinged 70s package (yet not a…

Interview - Natalie Portman on Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan

Actress on the challenging role, extreme pain and dancing injuries

A lot of people are saying your work in Black Swan is your best performance to date. How do you feel? I’m very unobjective! It was definitely the most challenging and the most rewarding. It’s sad that the cliché is true – the more you put in, the more…

Black Swan - Darren Aronofsky interview

A dark, mind-bending thriller that puts a trippy twist on Swan Lake

The first time Darren Aronofsky watched his new film Black Swan with an audience, at last year’s Venice Film Festival, it was not a particularly comfortable experience. He wasn’t suffering from first night nerves. He was simply worried about the…

Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler

I’ve had a poster of Mickey Rourke on my wall for over 20 years now. A black and white blow-up from Alan Parker’s Angel Heart, it pictures Rourke as private detective Harry Angel, freshly demobbed after WWII, his hair back-combed into an untidy quiff…

The Fountain

Plagued with production problems - most infamously star Brad Pitt exiting over creative differences, causing the film to close down - Darren Aronofsky’s labour of love has been a long time coming. Before rewriting the script and recasting a scaled down…

Fountain, The - Darren Aronofsky feature

Waves of mutilation

Speaking to the website Comic Book Resources in May 2005, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky said: ‘I knew it was a hard film to make, and I said if Hollywood fucks me over at least I’ll make a comic book out of it.’ They did, and so he did.