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...Darren Aronofsky must have known the risk he was taking as he prepared the ambitious movie romance called The Fountain. His previous films, the no-budget Pi (1998) and the low-budget Requiem for a Dream (2000), both quirky art-house hits, had been on the somber side, to put it mildly. To put it accurately, they were visual monologues that took place inside the deranged minds of their protagonists - respectively, a math whiz obsessed by the number 216 and a heroin addict with a possessive (and understandably perplexed) mom. Instantly, anybody could see that Aronofsky...
...Aronofsky then went the route of so many phenoms: being courted and misused by the big studios. Having spent $60,000 to make Pi, and $4.5 million on Requiem, he suddenly had hundred of millions dangled in front of him to direct a Batman prequel, or an adaptation of Theodore Roszak's meta-cinematic novel Flicker. Projects collapsed; time marched...
Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) concentrators who bemoan taking “Science B-53, Marine Biology” might look to Darren S. Aronofsky ’91 for inspiration.In a one-on-one interview with The Crimson, the director of “Pi,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and most recently, “The Fountain,” discusses his latest film as well as his fond memories of Harvard: the annoying difficulty of Social Studies, his life-changing electives in the VES department, the Core, and even...
...markets in Asia and elsewhere, but also struggle with unrelenting cost pressures at home. The big surprise came at VW. Bernd Pischetsrieder had just signed a new contract in May and was in the middle of a huge cost-cutting program. He resigned after falling out with Ferdinand Piëch, who is both chairman of VW and a key shareholder. Pischetsrieder, 58, was replaced by the head of Audi, Martin Winterkorn, 59, a Piëch loyalist. VW's financial prospects have brightened in recent months, and investors and industry officials fretted that Pischetrieder's exit could jeopardize...
...Friday night. He yelled for a minute and fell on the sidewalk, but survived—at least until the third event. A young lady in Ec 1010a fainted during the midterm. We extend our sympathies. Dean Gross’s son is pledging Alpha Epsilon Pi. Hope he survives initiation...