Ellen Burstyn's performance in Requiem for a Dream was so great that one of her best scenes affected the movie in a way fans ...

4. Requiem for a Dream’s 20-second cleaning-the-house-on-speed scene came from a 40-minute timelapse. One of the film’s many trippy visuals is the scene where Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn ...

Requiem for a Dream may be the first movie to fully capture the way that drugs dislocate us from ourselves. It’s that perception that powers the extraordinary tale of Harry’s mother ...

No story is sadder than Sara’s, and I stand by that ... expecting a super happy one from a movie as infamous as Requiem for a Dream. But it’s the way it ended that really got to me.

Requiem for a Dream tells parallel stories that are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfarb and her sweet but aimless son, Harry. The plump Sara, galvanized by the ...

Requiem for a Dream is about addiction in various forms ... "a manifesto on Addiction's triumph over the Human Spirit." Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) is a Brooklyn widow addicted to television ...

Requiem for a Dream NPR's Bob Mondello reviews Requiem for a Dream which opens in New York today without a rating, but with a theater-enforced ban on viewers under 17 years of age. The producers ...