#hubert selby jr.

[dominik528]

Requiem for a Dream + the book's final paragraph

#Requiem for a Dream #film #book #quote #Hubert Selby Jr. #Tyrone C. Love #Marlon Wayans #GIFs #edits #drama #adult fiction #ending #character #mother #Darren Aronofsky

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 13, 2001, Requiem for a Dream debuted in the Netherlands.

Marking the occasion with some new art!

#requiem for a dream #darren aronofsky #drama film #drug movies #2000s movies #hubert selby jr. #drug film #drug culture #psychological thriller #psychological drama #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[anjumbai]

Requiem for a Dream: House of Cards

Movie: Requiem for a Dream IMDB: 8.3 Director: Darren Aronofsky

Adapted from: Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.

It's been like 30 minutes since I finished this movie and I'm still terrified of the emotions it was able to cause inside of me. I've always seen posts where people say something like "i loved requiem for a dream but i won't ever watch it again" and I was like "let's give this a shot." And I was not disappointed to the slightest, it's one of the most amazing pieces of cinematography I've ever laid my eyes on. It was accompanied with a spine-chilling soundtrack that's still ringing in my ears even after half an hour. I've tried watching some memes, but it isn't helping. What I'm saying is that I loved the movie. I absolutely loved it.

It focuses on a heavy subject matter of your addictions and how they will cause your eventual demise. It's circled around our 4 characters of Ty, Henry, Mrs. Goldfarb and Marion. While each and every one of them represents a dream of some sort, an ambition or maybe even regret- they all seemed like they wanted to change their lives for something better. They wanted to feel like better people. And I think that sets us up for such a tragic ending that lasts with you for a while.

All of them building dreams and trying to set up foundations for it. All of them looking for a better future. One just wanted to make their mama proud, but that wasn't possible. He's a drug seller. He is surrounded with them. There's no way out. These dreams, these foundations are just a house made of cards. They'll get blown away. It'll be their end. They'll leave shattered.

And I expected all of this. Like you could see what would happen to whom, how the story line would play out and what not. But what sets it apart is it's beautiful and over the top cinematography. We'd have close up shots of eyes, drug intake, we'd have a fridge trying to eat Mrs. Goldfarb. Instead of scene cutting from scene, it would just be a shot fading away into another shot. The color palette, the camera work, the soundtrack- all of it was just so captivating.

It was an excellent work by the actors. Good to see Jared Leto not trying to be too creepy. Maybe I like him on roles that don't give off molester vibes. It was a tragedy to see what happened to Mrs. Goldfarb. Such a terribly lonely soul and an undeserving conclusion. Yea, I don't think she deserved it.

So yeah, requiem for a dream. A movie to remember. It goes up there with some of my favorites like Whiplash and The Pianist now. I'm still trying to find out more movies. And I think this is something you gotta at least watch once in your life. It's a captivating piece of cinematography- and I think it deserves the rep it gets. Horrifying as it is, I'd watch it again just to get that feeling of being immersed into a piece of art. 9/10, just amazing and captivating.

#movie #movie review #captivating #requiem for a dream #jared leto #darren aronofsky #cinematography #movies #jennifer connely #hubert selby jr. #imdb

[davidhudson]

Hubert Selby Jr., July 23, 1928 - April 26, 2004.

With his third wife, Suzanne, with their son, Bill, in 1970.

#hubert selby jr. #literature

[tamamo-no-mae326]

They don’t know what it is to feel the sorrow of the world. To feel the hollow, lumpy pain of hunger. Or loneliness. That terrible, overwhelming feeling of loneliness that makes you unaware of crowded streets and noisy rooms. That terrible loneliness that makes simple movements gigantic chores and weighs so heavy inside you that you can’t answer a simple question with a yes or a no, or even shake your head. You can’t even stare into inquisitive eyes. You can only feel the heavy loneliness flowing through your body and hanging wet and heavy on your eyes. They know nothing about these things. To them tears are tears and nothing more. They don’t feel them. They just don’t feel. That’s what it is. They just don’t feel.

The Room, Hubert Selby Jr.

#The Room #Hubert Selby Jr. #quotes #tamamo-no-mae326

[realhankmccoy]

Aronofsky films, ranked:

1) The Whale 2) Pi 3) Black Swan 4) The Wrestler 5) The Fountain 6) Mother 7) Requiem

just didn't like Requiem for a Dream, kids, which is the one everyone loves -- prob I would have appreciated the Hubert Selby Jr. book from 1978 better.

only way i can appreciate Requiem is with an absurdist eye, total absurdism. I could try it again from that angle.

I just watched Mother and wow, how muddled... this guy's gotta sort himself out on a number of attitudes he has towards life still.

I get it, he's a director who makes movies, not some guy sitting around thinking of things all day like I am, but he's on the 'learn as you go' plan about life and the film would have been way better without all the poor and homeless diving into mother nature's cake

I haven't seen Noah.

#darren aronofsky #hubert selby jr.

[genshis-balkans]

#hubert selby jr.

[balllsdeeep]

Requiem for a Dream

#jared leto #jennifer connelly #marlon wayans #requiem for a dream #hubert selby jr. #heroin

[thebuzztrack]

A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s 'The Road'

In the winter of 2009, I watched a dramatic film set in a post-apocalyptic era where a father and son travel on a long road. They anticipate a haven to live out their remaining days on Earth. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as the father and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the son. Although the story moves at a slower pace than other films of recent years, a definable mood is overwhelmingly present within the film’s storytelling. After reading the book on which the movie is based, I have discovered the origin of the dark mood that surrounds the story of survival and last hope. The Road is a dramatization written by Cormac McCarthy.

His other written work has also been adapted into films such as No Country for Old Men and All the Pretty Horses. The prose written on the page within his books is intentionally simple and, on several occasions, defies the basic grammatical rules of the English language. Why would “cant” be written without an apostrophe when “he’s” has been written into the same paragraph and included one? This quirky behavior is a rare treat for successfully published writers. The only other author with a sense of writing style would be Hubert Selby, Jr., who has the notorious style of placing the forward-slash symbol (/) as the permanent replacement for an apostrophe, alongside ignoring the rules for other punctuation symbols. However, there is more to The Road than the nuance of the author’s punctuation style.

The book's structure does not comply with the traditional narrative of fiction storytelling. It strays from the usual methods by describing brief moments in time that appear as fragmented memories. The primary characters, a father and a son, exist in the present tense. Their daily travel down the road is written as a daily log of what they do and what they discover. The father recalls memories of their former life with his wife, but it is told in brief flashes of memory. Nothing is ever referenced with an explanation for what happened to the world that would leave so many people wandering the Earth as vagrants.

Despite the lack of a traditional arc that would build an emotional and character development as the reader is accustomed to witnessing, there is an ongoing tension of survival for the two main characters. They must avoid the cannibals, find shelter from the rain to comfortably sleep every night, pillage for edible food and clean water as often as possible, and grasp every ounce of hope that could be mustered up.

Only speaking of my personal experience with reading the book, it is more entertaining to watch the film adaptation than it was for me to read the book. Comparing the book and movie, a couple of changes were made to the story I would contemplate an improvement. The flashback scenes include more information about the mother. Why was she willing to abandon her family? The movie attempts to explain her reasoning behind the decision.

In addition, a few scenes from the book have been intentionally misplaced in the film’s timeline. The decision was clear to me that the movie wanted to build upon a growing tension within the character development and emotional story. In my opinion, the changes to the timeline are minor, as the story draws a more satisfying development arc.

#Cormac McCarthy #dystopian #books #books and reading #book recommendations #book review #review #The Road #Hubert Selby Jr. #Youtube

[nobeerreviews]

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

-- Hubert Selby, Jr.

#comfort #loneliness #rays of light #evening light #hubert selby jr #travel photography #evening photography #switzerland #quote #hot soup #soft bed #sorrow #pain

[cryingoflot49]

Hubert Selby Jr.: I'll Be Better Tomorrow

documentary film

#hubert selby jr #documentaries #american literature #american authors #transgressive fiction #Youtube

[dominik528]

-- Alice in Chains 

#Alice in Chains #Rain When I Die #lyrics #film #edits #Requiem for a Dream #relationship #break up #exes #sad #Hubert Selby Jr. #spoilers #Harry Goldfarb #Marion Silver #Jennifer Connelly #Jared Leto

[schlock-luster-video]

On January 31, 2002 Requiem for a Dream debuted in Peru.

#requiem for a dream 2000 #requiem for a dream #darren aronofsky #jared leto #hubert selby jr. #counterculture film #anti drug movies #drug movies #drug film #psychological thriller #2000s movies #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[aranazo]

French edition of Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

#books #covers #french books #hubert selby jr #last exit to brooklyn #1970 #ai didn't like this one #70s

[gokaiju]

Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000) | Harry Goldfarb Poster | Poster by Gokaiju

#requiem for a dream #harry goldfarb #jared leto #Clint Mansell #Darren Aronofsky #hubert selby jr #grégory sacré #gokaiju #movie poster

[tamamo-no-mae326]

The average cop is vindictive and will not hesitate to use his authority and position to avenge a real or imagined grievance. Be subjected to a cops animosity and park a few inches from the curb; or drop a cigarette butt on the sidewalk and see what happens.

The Room, Hubert Selby Jr.

#The Room #Hubert Selby Jr. #quotes #tamamo-no-mae326