Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler is surely one of the fall’s most enigmatic releases — and one of the most eagerly awaited. Here are the first production stills from the film, and it looks every bit as creepy and moody as you’d expect from the man behind Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (which was awesome despite its generally negative reception).

The movie is about a retired professional wrestler, played by Mickey Rourke, who is trying to survive on the small-time independent wrestling circuit. It sounds campy, but I think it’s more likely to be grim — and it sounds, if anything, awfully depressing. These photos confirm that, I think, as does the fact that Clint Mansell is once again writing the musical score.

The movie premieres in Venice next month, then Toronto shortly thereafter. It doesn’t have a US distributor yet, but that won’t last long. Check out a couple more photos (including one featuring Marisa Tomei as a stripper) below.

I love Darren Aronofsky, I’d see just about anything he does!

Most actresses subscribe to strict diets or exacting workout regimens to maintain a svelte body in Hollywood – but not Marisa Tomei. What does she do?

“I pray a lot like, ‘Keep me skinny please,’” the actress tells Parade.com.

Admitting she has “cyclical weight problems,” Marisa gets candid about the pressure to remain thin in the demanding Hollywood stratosphere, home to oh-so-many eating disorders.

“I’m concerned with how my body looks and I just find it really hard to watch myself,” she says. “It’s very tough when you’re in different cities and different time zones. Often my schedule during filming just doesn’t give me time to work out.”

It’s even tougher when you sign onto a film with a graphic sex scene. The Oscar winner, who can next be seen in War Inc., won the Mr. Skin Best Nude Scene Award for her romp in last year’s Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Calling the nudity “appropriate” for the film, the 43-year-old says she just had to go for it when she saw the scene in the script.

“I said to myself, ‘It’s now or never,’” Marisa says. “I admit I felt a little faint before I did it. I don’t think I’d eaten in like two days. The most embarrassing part is having your family watch it.”

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It’s a sight you never thought you’d see – a stark naked Philip Seymour Hoffman in the very first frame of Sidney Lumet‘s latest, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.”

The Oscar-winning actor and an equally nude Marisa Tomei kick off the harrowing thriller with a steamy sex scene that had everyone talking Wednesday night at the Cinema Society screening of Lumet’s 45th film.

Hoffman, Tomei and co-star Ethan Hawke were on hand for the Sagatiba Rum-sponsored showing and the star-studded after-party on the roof lounge of the Gramercy Park Hotel.

Among those enthralled by the tale of a robbery gone horribly awry were Lauren Bacall, Sheryl Crow, Patricia Clarkson, Tommy Hilfiger, Rachel Roy, Cynthia Rowley, Sante D’Orazio, newly pregnant Julianna Margulies and supermodel Hana Soukupova (whose apartment was used for one of the grittier scenes).

Meanwhile, guests downstairs at the Rose Bar were getting a scene of their own. Ryan Gosling proved he’s over his ex, Rachel McAdams, by cozying up to a “hot brunette who kept showing him her phone.”

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Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead:

Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet directs this absorbing suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke), into a larcenous scheme: the pair will rob a suburban mom-and-pop jewelry store that appears to be the quintessential easy target. The problem is, the store owners are Andy and Hanks actual mom and pop and, when the seemingly perfect crime goes awry, the damage lands right at their doorstep. Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei plays Hoffmans trophy wife, who is having a clandestine affair with Hawke, and the stellar cast also includes Albert Finney as the family patriarch who pursues justice at all costs, completely unaware that the culprits he is hunting are his own sons. A classy, classic heist-gone-wrong drama in the tradition of The Killing and Lumets own The Anderson Tapes, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOW YOURE DEAD is smart enough to know that we often have the most to fear from those who are near and dear.

They go to the Hard Rock Cafe and get wasted off their ever lovin mind.  I just love these pictures.  Marisa Tomei really knows how to get down.