Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Aronofsky’s 2000 addiction film. Four people destroyed in parallel tracks. Clint Mansell’s score, Selby’s novel, Burstyn’s career-best performance.
Jennifer Connelly
This archive gathers the films featuring Jennifer Connelly reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Dark City (1998)”, “Labyrinth (1986)”, “Requiem for a Dream (2000)”, and “The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 and 2008)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Jennifer Connelly serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Dark City (1998)
Dark City is the best science fiction film of the late 1990s and one of the most influential. Alex Proyas directed. Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer, and Proyas…
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 and 2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still has been adapted twice as a major studio film, in 1951 and in 2008. Robert Wise directed the 1951 original. Scott Derrickson…
Labyrinth (1986)
Labyrinth is the strangest mainstream studio film of 1986 and the last great Jim Henson production. Henson directed it. Terry Jones, of Monty Python…