The events of May»68 will amplify this process, and the crisis that shakes the filmmaker will transform him profoundly, from
a star cineaste to a Maoist artist entirely outside the system, as misunderstood as he is incomprehensible.
Darren Aronofsky is the kind of artiste director whose films tend to play well with the
cineaste crowd and prompt cricket chirps at the cineplex, but he's also got savvy commercial instincts and a gift for casting (Mickey Rourke, whose career was brought back to life thanks to his
star turn in Aronofsky's «The Wrestler,» would surely agree).
Seen last month at our Charlie Chaplin tribute: Joel Gibb of the Hidden Cameras, raw foods celebrity chef Boris Lauser with his visiting San Francisco posse, young sexy filmmaker Tilemachos Alexios Alexiou with super hot lover Assaf Hochman, translator to the
stars Daniel «Haji» Hendrickson, dapper composer and music theorist Volker Straebel, Maerz Music Festival Director Mattias Osterwold, gorgeous
cineaste Julian Schubert, Gabriele Knapstein curator at Hamburger Bahnof Museum, vivacious ballerina Trixie Cordua, film scholar Christian «F» Weber, academe Vincent Hediger, Christian Siekmieir of Exile Gallery with Japanese New York based artist Kazuko Mijamoto, curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Tim & kJohnny Blue, LA fashion designer Cornel Collins, artist Bertand Bodenave, Alannah Weston, the creative director of Selfridges, male ingenue Jake Myerson, British provacateuse Isabela Blow with writer Hamish Bowles, art
star Elias Hassos and Julia - Restoin Roitfeld.