Mickey Rourke - don’t call it a comeback!
Mickey Rourke, the edgy indie king of intense films and dodgy characters has had a rough time for the past few years. Making films that garnered little critical acclaim and low numbers at the box office, some would say his best years were behind him.
His fortune seemed to be changing with his eye catching role of the expat, chihuahua loving hitman in Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico where Rourke quite possibly stole every scene he was in.
Fast forward to this years New York Film Festival where Rourke’s new film The Wrestler showed to an enthusiastic audience and, more importantly, energized the blogosphere and the film scene with almost universally positive glowing reviews. It’s no harm that The Wrestler pairs Rourke with Darren Aronofsky, the visionary autuer behind Pi and Requiem for a Dream. These two films have cemented Aronofsky as one of the true outsider filmmakers, bringing dark and haunting visions to movie audiences with a one two punch of raw human emotion.
I am already hunting for which theater locally is going to be premiering The Wrestler in my town. But meanwhile - I will be brushing up on these two Aronofsky favorites - both convienently available on Jaman.
