Chico Marx famously queried: “Why a duck?” We rather wonder, “Why a swan?” [...]
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1 February 2011 
The first to sell out the spanking new Valley Performing Arts Center is a little known, highly conservative Russian ballet company bringing its “Swan Lake” to the home town of BLACK SWAN. [...] 29 December 2010 
He undertook to teach me how to dance Odile: “Dance as if you wanted to seduce me.” At this point, I lost patience. “I haven’t the slightest desire to do that to you,” I said, and walked off the set. I refused point-blank to go back on — let others work with this blockhead.” [...] 23 December 2010 
Darren Aronofsky’s “psychosexual thriller” is a hallucinatory horror, a paranoid fantasy pitting women against each other and against themselves. It shows us almost no ballet; the camera is usually jammed up against Natalie Portman’s lovely face or watching pinfeathers poke out of her shoulder blade. [...] 18 December 2010 
“Black Swan” got you down? Then check out Barak Marshall’s “ROOSTER” — a bird of a different feather — laying eggs tonight at RedCat performance space in downtown Los Angeles. [...] 13 December 2010 
“Lucretia” had me riveted for another reason. I had just reviewed Darren Aronofsky’s overheated gothic horror flick, Black Swan. The director and his all-male screenwriting team subject their female characters to as numbing a level of disrespect as possible without being pornographic. [...] 9 December 2010 
arts•meme special offer for your BLACK SWAN survivor’s group! buy one now! [...] 3 December 2010 
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is sure to cause controversy on its opening day today. But the film’s body double Kimberly Prosa is more prepared than others. [...] 29 November 2010 
Seconds into Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller BLACK SWAN, the hyperkinetic camera zooms in on a pink pointe shoe. A woman is dancing, but we don’t see her. We see only the impeccable chop-chop of her shoes. It’s a smart directorial move. Cinephiles and foot fetishists are primed for a good time, but dance lovers’ hearts may sink. [...] |
       gered mankowitz, photog, 1967      “the red danube” (1949)   |
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