Rourke, however, can surely appreciate being Aronofsky's biggest and most rewarding risk so far.
Aronofsky is a veteran risk-taker whose past films have drawn a confusing mix of reactions.
"'Action' puts a bad connotation out there, " Mr. Eastwood told Mr. Aronofsky.
Aronofsky remembered his first review from Ebert as a "career highlight".
There was more praise for the writer on Twitter with directors Ron Howard, Wes Craven, Cameron Crowe and Darren Aronofsky leading the mass outpour of affection.
Other strong contenders include US director Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and French film-maker Barbet Schroeder's thriller L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre, or The Beast in the Shadows.
So when filmmakers Clint Eastwood and Darren Aronofsky took the stage Saturday at the Borough of Manhattan Community College Theater and revealed their positions on digital filmmaking, the event bordered on heresy.
"I guess the first kind of feeling we had was when we went for the press conference and the press stood up and applauded for us, which I've never seen, " admits Aronofsky.
Others movies that had been in the running had been Darren Aronofsky for ballet-themed drama Black Swan, Christopher Nolan for high-tech thriller Inception and David O Russell for boxing movie The Fighter.
Filming was wrapped up in mid-March of this year, and post-production work was completed just a day before Aronofsky and Rourke were expected in Venice, meaning festival-goers had little to no information about the film.
"So, uh, technology, I guess it's a big theme at the festival, " said Mr. Aronofsky, the 44-year-old director of, among others, "Requiem for a Dream" and "Black Swan, " during the last of four "Tribeca Talks: Directors Series" events.
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