tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post4229472063866832891..comments2024-03-18T05:17:45.683-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: For Your Consideration: 'Black Swan'Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-8192701159683484832011-02-07T21:09:42.348-05:002011-02-07T21:09:42.348-05:00SVILUPPO:
New York City Ballet principal dancer S...SVILUPPO:<br /><br />New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns is dancing Odette/Odile right now. She <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704858404576128373162272838.html" rel="nofollow">answered questions</a> about the real ballet -- or lack thereof -- in <i>Black Swan</i> for the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-86866085753618774122011-01-16T14:01:44.666-05:002011-01-16T14:01:44.666-05:00Great review. The 'kitsch' was exactly tha...Great review. The 'kitsch' was exactly that. Hearing Aronofsky's 'in' on this film coming from the revelation of this 'Were-swan' brought me some much needed laughs at the screening.<br />His sly smirk as the accolades come in gives me the sense the joke is on the Academy.Toddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-82228050585714706342011-01-13T14:59:44.180-05:002011-01-13T14:59:44.180-05:00Not does it fail as a ballet film, it also fails a...Not does it fail as a ballet film, it also fails at being a creepy psychological thriller- paling alongside suchg films as Cronenberg's Spider and Polanski's Repulsion (to which Black Swan is way too reminiscent).<br /><br />I'll have to watch that SNL bit. I thought the same thing about "the only straight French dance choreographer in the world." The whole film is kind of John Marcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17616296400880495672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-86203684462913798672011-01-13T00:02:45.863-05:002011-01-13T00:02:45.863-05:00Also, check out this very thorough overview of bal...Also, check out this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jan/07/black-swan-ballet-movie-cliches" rel="nofollow">very thorough overview</a> of ballet in the history of cinema.Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-74323976650128610142011-01-12T22:33:42.734-05:002011-01-12T22:33:42.734-05:00Hahaha -- great review in the FT (many thanks for ...Hahaha -- great review in the FT (many thanks for that, Jens):<br /><br /><i>Aronofsky and his movie double, the ballet director, get things backwards. If Nina can do the white swan she can do anything, because the Swan Queen has an inner life. Next to that, the lessons of random sex and other experiences pale.</i><br /><br />Scholl gives the movie one of five stars, by the way. Right on the Charles T. Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-55852500701428837992011-01-12T19:59:26.864-05:002011-01-12T19:59:26.864-05:00See Apollinaire Scholl's review in the FT:
&q...See Apollinaire Scholl's review in the FT:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7cf4a832-fe38-11df-abac-00144feab49a.html" rel="nofollow">"getting banged in a club bathroom by a couple of drunken lads [does not a convincing ballet-movie make]"</a>jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-85967107129013996762011-01-12T16:02:21.309-05:002011-01-12T16:02:21.309-05:00Creepy, tense, but at the same time utterly beauti...Creepy, tense, but at the same time utterly beautiful thanks to an amazing performance from Portman, that sure should win her an Oscar.CMrok93http://www.dtmmr.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com