Low-budget film that won Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his home grown supercomputer, Max .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib |
|---|---|
| Director | Darren Aronofsky |
| Genres | Drama |
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Low-budget film that won Aronofsky "Best Director" at 1998's Sundance Film Festival. Gritty, inventive black-and-white photography drives this story of genius mathematician Max Cohen who is exploring the possible existence of discernible patterns in the stock market. With the aid of Euclid, his home grown supercomputer, Max stumbles upon a bug that crashes his system and spits out a seemingly meaningless number. A knowledgeable friend gives him insight using the ancient game of Go and warns of the spiritual ramifications of powerful numbers. A Hasidic cabalistic sect and representatives from an extremely powerful Wall Street firm then attempt to extract the number from him, by whatever means necessary, for their own ill-gotten gains.
| Starring | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib, Pamela Hart, Joanne Gordon |
|---|---|
| Director | Darren Aronofsky |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 20 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1999 To Rent: DVD: not available To Buy: DVD: 19 Jul 2002 |
"...Ingeniously cerebral, playfully twisted....A tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design..."
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Furious Invention.
Darren Aronofsky has taken a defiantly unfilmable story and created something really quite startling. The film documents mathematician Max's struggle with ... read more »
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Ideas going nowhere
Pi is stylishly shot, pacey and has a fantastic soundtrack by Clint Mansell, but it felt like a long 80 minutes for me.
It seems heavily influenced ... read more »
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Great debut
Great debut from a great director. Very interesting subject matter, superb editing and very gripping.
Nothing else like it out there.
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Pick it up, Pi
I found the number theory fascinating but I thought it suffered from slow pacing which makes the film feel a lot longer than it is.
The character was... read more »
It's been six years since Darren Aronofsky wowed a generation of young filmgoers with his sensational treatment of addiction, Requiem for a Dream. Now he's back with a stab at the kind of personal, visionary cinema his new-found reputation seemed to demand: a metaphysical sci-fi movie starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz (Mrs Aronofsky). Delayed and truncated by the ankling of Brad Pitt some years ago, The Fountain turns out to be three terrible films for the price of one. There's no... Read more
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