Facts & Opinions

Glad I'm not the only one that sniffs it as soon as it arrives! Love opening a new copy 

a thing of beauty.  

This is really inspiring! Love the magazine. Great, great work. 

The cover illustration is wonderful, is there anywhere it can be seen without the text? 

I'd love to keep it in my mac! 

Even better if you made an ipad app for it

great video! and awesome mag, does anyone know what typeface is used for the final front cover? it looks like a "A tribute". 

Great short for a great movie.  

I dont know how I can ever achieve what you guys have done in the realm of editorial design..this is really good! You guys are really cool!! I have alot to learn & I think it's really not too late that I discovered you guys

Swan Lake came to be viewed as Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. The same may be true of Darren Aronofsky’s contemporary refi

Black Swan is a film about transformation and transcendence.

it is also a self-reflexive film of mirrors, doubles and doppelgängers

The New York City Ballet may transform the Swan Queen using make-up and choreography, but up there on screen, the magical metamorphosis of cinema is real.

a remarkable transformation, occupying both the mind and body of a vulnerable dancer

Gaunt and timid

Swan Queen represents a nineteenth-century ideal of womanhood,

If Black Swan is Aronofsky’s claim to creative genius, it’s one that is undermined by an overcooked finale and the film’s own dual nature.

It is dark and deep and complex.

So now I think that perhaps a standard semiological framework would aid people in reading the film who have, perhaps, not watched hundreds (probably thousands for the people at LWL's) of films previously. And that can only be a good thing. 

 

What bothers me about this review is I get the feeling he doesn't really like the film that much, but is giving it a good review because he's a fan of the director. 

ittle white lies is a good mag but it could do with seeming like less of an advertorial each time out with how it dedicates about half the issue to one mere film. then again at least its black swan and not some new pirates of the carribean sequel like empire. bah, what do i know lol.

I am asking myself how much research did Mr Aronofsky do before making this film? 

Film should be judged on the entertainment it delivers, the impression it leaves in the ensuing days.

Black Swan is not a film about ballet but a film about the mind and demise of a troubled, naive woman.