edgy
jerky storytelling style
imaginatively photographed
wide-angle lenses
signature editing: split screen used to multiply the anxiety
lightning-fast cuts to evoke the vertiginous high kicking in--somehow this pace seems as American as the image of Washington on the dollar bill used to snort
sped-up footage a la Clockwork Orange
adapted from the Hubert Selby novel by Selby and Aronofsky
Matthew Libatique
TV
fad diets
"It's great out there! Everyone is thirsty!" (Leto)
"I'm somebody now, Harry. Everybody likes me. Soon, millions of people will see me, and they'll all like me."
a brand-new TV set from Macy's
urban poetry: newspaper airplane gliding over Coney Island accompanies a discussion of her untapped potential
a shop to sell her own clothing designs
Kronos Quartet
Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald), Louise Lasser, Keith David, Dylan Baker,