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Actress Ellen Burstyn arrives at the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, March 17, 2001 in Los Angeles. Burstyn is nominated for an Academy Award as best actress for her
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In Requiem for a Dream, during Ellen Burstyn's impassioned monologue about being old, cinematographer Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. When confronted about it, director Darren Aronofsky realized Libatique was
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In Requiem for a Dream (2001), during Ellen Burstyn's "Red Dress" monologue, the camera starts to shake near the end of the scene. This is because director Darren Aronofsky is crying because
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