The Wrestler : The NYFF Press Conference
ComingSoon.net attends the New York Film Festival press conference for Darren Aronofsky's fourth movie The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Aronofsky, Rourke, Tomei and producer Scott Franklin were on-hand to answer questions from the international press in attendance.

The Wrestler Press Conference, NYFF 2008
I’ve been sitting here for two hours trying to figure out how to shoehorn press conference quotes into a review of The Wrestler, the NYFF closing night film which screened for the press this morning. But Stu at Defamer already beat me to posting the money quotes from star Mickey Rourke. Here’s the part that I planned to use to great dramatic effect, which Rourke spat out in response to the last question of the session, all the while gesticulating with what appeared to be a half-smoked, unlit cig

Dispatches From The New York Film Festival: The Wrestler
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 morning. Mickey Rourke, who is in practically every scene of the film, turned in as good a performance as p

NYFF. The Wrestler.
The Wrestler (site) "may best be described as an existentialist tragicomedy about the nature of identity and performance, but the movie itself is as light as low-calorie mayonnaise - which is saying a lot when you consider that, in director Darren Aronofsky's previous film, The Fountain (2006), even a mere snowflake was hunkered down with several tons of symbolic importance," writes Scott Foundas in Cinema Scope. "The result is a movie far closer in look and feel to the New American Cinema of the 70s (which

Marisa Tomei’s Nipple Trouble On “The Wrestler”
Apparently Mickey Rourke wasn’t the only one wrestling on the set of Darren Aronofsky’s new film; Marisa Tomei wrestled with her fake nipple piercings for much of the shoot, according to WENN. Tomei plays a tattooed and pierced stripper in The Wrestler and director Aronofsky told the New York Daily News that the fake piercings were a real pain - because they took so long to attach: “The hardest part was fitting the fake nipple piercings on her. You’d be surprised at how long that too

The Wrestler Review, NYFF 2008
A review of Darren Aronofsky's THE WRESTLER, starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, from the New York Film Festival.

NYFF 2008: "The Wrestler."
Mickey Rourke is one magnificent wreck. "The Wrestler" holds off from giving you the full-frontal of his face for a while, as if he were the monster in a low-budget horror flick. When it does finally creep around, you see misplaced tautness, semi-mobile features, starlet lips, an overall impression of carved putty. One of the film's visual jokes is that Rourke's character, faded pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, is a shambling but still formidable hunk of meat, but he's aging in the style of a South Be

‘The Wrestler’
The Wrestler stars Mickey Rourke as a has-been wrestler who decides to head back to the ring with aspiration of a comeback. He meets up with Marisa Tomei, a stripper, who gives Rourke a place to stay, which brings about a friendship between the wrestler and her son.   Directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain) and scripted by Robert Siegel, The Wrestler won The Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.   Fox Searchlight features 5 videos from The New York Film Festival’s press conference for The

Oscar Eye: Predicting The Best Actor Winners, Round One
Mickey Rourke and Benicio Del Toro give awards glory a go at NYFF.

Angel Heart remake in the Pipeline
When released in the 1987 there was a lot of controversy surrounding the movie. But after 11 years they want to remake this cult classic for the big screen. The film starred Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro and got mixed reviews upon release. It was filled with supernatural elements and was called a genre bending film. Now Michael De Luca has partnered with Alison Rosenzweig and Michael Gaeta to develop a big screen remake for the movie. They also got rights to the book the film is based on Falling Angel w

The week on IFC.com: Mickey Rourke, soundtracks and post-Iraq road movies.
This blog should be back to its regular self next week or so. In the meantime, a round-up of what's been happening on the rest of IFC.com:       + Review: "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" - Matt Singer wonder why, for a movie that supposedly revolves around music, no one in this teen rom-com seems to like it all that much.       + Video: "The Wrestler" at the New York Film Festival - Mickey Rourke, Darren Aronofsky and Marisa Tomei face the

'Wrestler' grips NY Film Festival
Film News: Film takes physical, emotional toll on Rourke -- The Mickey Rourke comeback campaign alighted on the New York Film Festival with "The Wrestler" on Wednesday. The thesp choked up at one point during a post-screening news conference as he was asked about the similarities between the down-and-out grappler he plays in the Darren Aronofsky film and his own career.

NYFF '08 | Aronofsky, Rourke Talk "Wrestler," Folman "Waltzes" With New York
Wednesday afternoon at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York marked a big day for the 46th New York Film Festival. "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and producer Scott Franklin joined director Darren Aronofsky to discuss the film after its first screening for New York press and industry. The movie, acquired shortly after its North American debut last month at the Toronto fest, will close the NYFF on October 12th. Meanwhile, Ari Folman's acclaimed animated documentary, "Waltz With Bashir" made its

Wrestler conf. clips
You've probably been hearing a lot about THE WRESTLER, endlessly cool director Darren Aronofsky's acclaimed film about an aged grappler (played by Mickey Rourke) battling to make a comeback while struggling to win over his daughter and woo a stripper (Marisa Tomei). The actors and filmmaker appeared at the New York Film Festival -- check out some clips of the press conference, and ponder if any gold statues will be handed in the general direction of the film at the next Academy Awards. Extra Ti

NYFF '08 | Aronofsky, Rourke Talk "Wrestler," Folman "Waltzes" With New York - indieWIRE
Wednesday afternoon at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York marked a big day for the 46th New York Film Festival. "The Wrestler" Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei and producer Scott Franklin joined director Darren Aronofsky to discuss the film after its first screening for New York press and industry. The movie, acquired shortly after its North American debut last month at the Toronto fest, will close the NYFF on October 12th. Meanwhile, Ari Folman's acclaimed animated documentary, "Waltz With Bashir" made its

Video: "The Wrestler" at the New York Film Festival
"If I knew it was going to take me 15 years to get back in the saddle and work again because of the way I handled things, I really would have handled things differently... Change, for me, didn't come easily. I didn't want to change, until I lost everything." Mickey Rourke's role as faded professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson in "The Wrestler" is rightly being hailed the comeback, and one of the best performances, of the year. At the film's U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival, he, co-star Ma

The Suck-Up Entertainment Press
Everyone (or at least the McCain campaign) talks about the liberal media being in the can for Democrats, about how they pander to Barack Obama and their liberal gods in Hollywood. But they're only saying that because they've never seen the entertainment press in action. Take this morning's press conference with The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky and its stars, Mickey Rourke and Oscar-winner™ Marisa Tomei, all of whom have been talked about for Oscar nominations. Already. Why are the press so af

Darren the Dude Revives Mickey The Mauler
Darren Aronofsky was a serious young man, a nature boy. He grew up in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, where the beaches were beautiful but cluttered with trash. His interest in the environment took him to Alaska to study the behavior of seals. “There was a moment, we were kayaking around,” he said of the trip with the School for Field Studies, a charity on whose board he now sits. “I was eating a candy bar and I dropped the wrapper in the water and it went under. And I realized that that thing was going i

Interview: Darren Aronofsky on "The Wrestler"
By Aaron Hillis Brooklyn-born auteur Darren Aronofsky turned mathematical patterns and theories into a brooding thriller (1998's "Pi"), injected us with a bravura adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s reckless-addiction novel (2000's Oscar-nominated "Requiem for a Dream"), and raced against the clock of mortality in an ambitious love story spanning ten centuries (2006's unfairly maligned "The Fountain"). So what's a filmmaker's next move, having already zoomed a 26th century Hugh Jackman around the galaxy in an

The Weinsteins Delay Killshot Yet Again
Some movies just weren’t meant to see the light of day, but you know, it’s hard to believe that a movie produced by Quentin Tarantino, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker John Madden, based on a book by Elmore Leonard, and starring Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson and Thomas Jane would fall into that category. Nevertheless, the upcoming Weinstein release Killshot has been in the works for 3 or 4 years now, and it looks like we’re all going to have t

Anne Hathaway Submits To David Letterman's Cross-Examination [Witness For The Defense]
newVideoPlayer("/ahathbf_def.flv", 506, 423,""); As if Anne Hathaway didn't have enough to contend with this week while facing her Rachel Getting Married press grind and her debunked predilection for... well, you know, the beleaguered actress joined David Letterman on Tuesday to sift through the detritus of her doomed relationship with Raffaello Follieri. In apparent exchange for omitting those rumors from his intimate line of questioning, however, pretty much every other subject was fair game. And to her

Right Now on Cinematical
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Mickey Rourke taped a blade to his forearm and sliced his forehead for film
The actor definitely deserves a Method acting trophy for his performance in The Wrestler. Rourke heard that real life ring showmen sometimes fake injury by cutting themselves with razor blades. "So Mickey taped a blade to his forearm, and when the time was right, sliced his forehead"