All posts in: Black Swan

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14 Jan 2011

An Honest Jake

“Her child will probably need therapy after seeing Black Swan.”– Jake Gyllenhaal, teasing his pal and mom-to-be Natalie Portman, at the Palm Springs International Film Festival

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07 Jan 2011

2011 People’s Choice Awards

Ashley Tisdale in Farah Angsana

I haven’t rated looks in forever, but I might just start up again. I give this look a 4.7 because I am loving her resort-esque dress even during the winter time. The blend of chartreuse and pink in the dress help bring out her warm skin tone and are really quite complimentary to the entire look itself. She also gets points for doing the boho look without looking homeless hippy.

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28 Dec 2010

The Other Woman

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Natalie Portman is the actress that everyone is talking about at the end of 2010 for her performance in Black Swan. Next year, she brings us No Strings Attached and The Other Woman – a film reminiscent to Stepmom. Is this the beginning of her downfall? She may be adding more films to her resume in a short period of time, but a rom-com and a film without an original plot line won’t be able to compare to Black Swan. Regardless, I kind of liked watching the trailer above, but for some reason, I have a hard time picturing Natalie as a mom like my reaction to her in Brothers last year.

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27 Dec 2010

Natalie Portman: Engaged and Preggers

Natalie Portman has been amidst all sorts of buzz lately after her performance in the Oscar-nominated film Black Swan. Now, People Magazine has reported that the actress is engaged to her boyfriend of one year, Benjamin Millepied and that the couple are expecting. Millepied was the choreographer for Black Swan – pictured above far left. These two are going to have one beautiful child.

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26 Dec 2010

Katie’s Favorites of 2010

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Earlier this year, my friend Veronica asked me if I would be compiling 20 of my favorite posts to feature like I had done last year. At the end of 2009, I had 1,423 posts. Today, I have 3502 posts. Going through that many from this year alone does not sound fun to me. 2010 was a great year and there are many special posts that mean something to me, but the task is exhausting. After starting the process, I decided to opt out of it and bring you my favorites in other things instead as a way to look back on this year. Enjoy!

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21 Dec 2010

Beautiful Black Swan

British design firm LaBoca has created a series of vintage inspired posters for the film Black Swan that are both beautiful and terrifying at the same time.

To view the rest of the posters, click here.

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17 Dec 2010

Movie Review: Black Swan

After months of waiting, I finally had the opportunity to see Black Swan starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. The trailer was just enough of a tease to give you a taste for the film, but not enough to give away the whole movie. The costumes done by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, the movement and art of ballet dancing, and the direction of the film were mesmerizing. It was downright thrilling in the sense that it was constantly tantalizing the audience and made to push our boundaries and test our comfort zones.

Before actually watching the film, I had read a number of interviews from Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis regarding their controversial sex scene and the grueling ballet training, which had lead to both the actress’s 20-pound weight loss each. I’m still debating if whether or not reading those articles affected my reaction to the film or not. I do have to address that while there were parts of this film that did make me uncomfortable, not including them would have harmed the overall atmosphere of the film.

Does Natalie deserve her nominations for this film? There is no doubt. I was surprised by both the performances given by Natalie and Mila because I simply have never seen them in roles quite like this one especially from Mila. Natalie was bold, daring, graceful, and exquisite. Mila playing the role of Lily was the ever-so-popular indie pixie dream girl, therefore you simply loved her. You weren’t given a choice about that.

When I left the film, I was unable to make the immediate decision of categorizing Black Swan as a good or bad film. It was neither. It is one of those films that cannot be given a label. In my eyes, it was disturbingly artistic and sometimes too much for me to handle. That doesn’t mean that I was borderline considering an early exit, in fact, I was challenged by it. At the very end of the night, I ran my friend Nick who had recently watched the film as well. When discussing it, he had told me that he loved it. Typically after watching films, to decide whether he liked it or not,  he’ll ask himself if he could have thought of a better ending to it. “I couldn’t. It was perfect,” and we left it at that.

This movie is not for everyone, but you’ll know whether or not you want to watch the film after you’ve seen the trailer.