Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH is a gorgeously shot, sometimes thrilling, but ultimately rote retelling of the classic biblical story.

It turns out that ballet isn’t so different from professional wrestling: both are choreographed, both take enormous physical tolls and both can make you a little crazy — the former just has much smaller performers and far better music. It’s odd to think of Darren Aronofsky’s new film, Black Swan, a backstage thriller about professional ballet, as a companion piece to his last film, The Wrestler, a backstage melodrama about professional wrestling, with Natalie Portman playing a diminutive version of Mickey Rourke, only in less gaudy tights. But it’s not entirely inaccurate.

What if you could live forever? It’s an intriguing question that many filmmakers have attempted to address over the years. Just don’t ask it of Darren Aronofsky, writer/director of the upcoming sci-fi love story, The Fountain. He hates taglines — such as this one for his movie — that narrow the focus of and discourage individual thought on the meaning of his work. Last Tuesday, the man behind the psychological brain bender, Pi, and the…