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Format: DVD
Jan 1999
Rated R
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Closed Captioned
85 min.
B&W
UPC: 012236049401 |
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Movie Description
Low-budget film that won Darren 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.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Letterboxed - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Darren Aronofsky - Director
Bonus Footage - 1. Behind-the-Scenes
2. Lost Scenes
Music Video
Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Text/Photo Galleries:
Production Notes
Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
Industry Reviews
"...[A] mesmerizing mind-bender.....Aronofsky is a visionary with a raw talent..."
Rolling Stone - p.145 - Peter Travers
"...Truly an original..."
USA Today - p.3E - Mike Clark
"...Ingeniously cerebral, playfully twisted....A tour-de-force of grainy, high-contrast black-and-white photography and inventive editing and sound design..."
Film Comment - p.7 - Gavin Smith
"...[Aronofsky] manages to showcase plenty of style..."
Premiere - p.24 - Glenn Kenny
"...A hallucinatory rumination on the riddle of existence....PI is a delight for the eye and the mind..." -- 5 out of 5 stars
Box Office - Ray Greene (04/01/1998)
"...It is a brilliant intellectual adventure that fans of bold independent filmmaking will want to experience..."
Los Angeles Times - Kevin Thomas (07/24/1998)
"A deeply unnerving and compulsively watchable indie thriller shot entirely in black and white..."
Total Film - Simon Brew (06/01/2000)
Quotations
"11:15 Restate my assumptions:
1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.
Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
- Max Cohen
"The Torah is just a long string of numbers. Some say that it's a code sent to us from God."
- Lenny Meyer
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