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.
| Credits | | Producer: | Eric Watson, Scott Vogel | | Cast: | Kristyn Anne-Marie Lao, Samia Shoaib, Stanley Herman, Stephen Pearlman |
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
Editorial 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)
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