Lynn Belvedere

NOAH

Ruseell Crowe in the new blockbuster, NOAH
Ruseell Crowe plays Noah in Darren Aronofsky’s big screen epic

NOAH (2014), director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan/The Wrestler) has crafted an intimate and audience gripping, big screen epic with his new bold interpretation of The Ark Story. Experience the fates of Tubal-Cain, Noah and his family and Noah’s first grand-children, as taken from the Old Testament’s early history of the Jewish Nation. This has not been seen with this level of quite extraordinary attention to detail, since the era of the great film director Cecil B. DeMille’s bible epics, as photographed in VistaVision at Paramount Studios.

Ruled by their king, Tubal-Cain (Ray Winstone), The Creator’s brutal, evil and sinful mankind has spread out from the Garden Of Eden, very much like unwanted deadly weeds, destroying all of the Planet Earth, and ‘for strength’ mankind are hunting and eating every animal they find.

‘The Creator’, by divine vision, chooses just one family of strict vegetarians, who must build The Ark. We also meet Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins). His grand-son the faithful Noah (Russell Crowe) is the tenth and last of the pre-flood (antediluvian) Patriarchs. Together with The Watchers, Noah with wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly) and his family, are all fated to build a huge wooden ark, that will be big enough to save two of every creature from extinction.

Embrace the world of earthbound angels (The Watchers ) trapped within rock, who still wander the earth of fire and brimstone, in this well known biblical yarn, from the world’s most-read book. The story of Noah’s Ark is told in the Hebrew Bible (Torah) in the flood narrative of Genesis, plus is also found in Sura 71 of the Qur’an (Koran). The biblical account is followed by the story of the Curse of Ham.

We are introduced to a berry-mad Methuselah, who can live to over a thousand years of age, and can perform miracles. Noah must turn his back on all mankind, with the knowledge that only he and his vegetarian family will be saved. “The Creator” choose “The Flood” to wash away the sinful and the wicked.

OFLC Classification: M (Mature themes and violence), 138 minutes running time.

NOAH was the number one film worldwide last weekend, including the top spot in both Australia and the U.S.A.

Official Website: https://www.facebook.com/NoahMovie.AU

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -