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Happy Holidays From Roman Polanski
11 hours ago
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From the Huffington Post, comes the first words from director Roman "The Tenant" Polanski since his recent legal problems :
"...I have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and sympathy I have received in Winterthur prison, and that I continue to receive here, in my chalet in Gstaad, where I am spending the holidays with my wife and my children.
These messages have come from my neighbors, from people all over Switzerland, and from beyond Switzerland -- from across the world.
I would like every one of them to know how heartening it is, when one is locked up in a cell, to hear this murmur of human voices and of solidarity in the morning mail.
In the darkest moments, each of their notes has been a source of comfort and hope, and they continue to be so in my current situation.
I would like to be
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- Michael Stevens
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Full of the strange
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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In September Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. He faces extradition to the Us, having fled the States in 1978 to avoid being sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The debate about the case has raged ever since. Martin Amis was the first writer to interview Polanski after his flight, meeting him in Paris in 1979 for a magazine article. Here, we publish the encounter in full
When I was being driven to the police station from the hotel, the car radio was already talking about it. The newsmen were calling the police before I was arrested to see whether they can break the news. I couldn't believe… I thought, you know, I was going to wake up from it. I realise, if I have killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls.
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- Martin Amis
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Horror Hero Sam Raimi Reveals His Favorite Scary Movies For Halloween
29 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT
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It's the eternal dorm-room debate, the stuff of boozy smack-talking sessions and stony, less-than-coherent arguments: what's the scariest movie of all-time? It's a (sober) discussion we've been having at MTV News as Halloween sneaks up on us and a question we've been throwing out to folks in the film biz who truly know their fright-fest stuff.
When I had a chance to talk with Sam Raimi – he of the many righteous "Evil Dead" pictures – I had to get his thoughts on the matter. The first thing he told me was that the horror genre scares the crap out of him. "It's hard to sit through them," he confessed. "I really enjoy it when I'm in the middle of it, it's just hard to approach the theater." The second thing he said is that he loves them dearly. The third and fourth and fifth and sixth? Those scary movies he cherishes
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- Eric Ditzian
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Interview: Director Ti West on ‘The House of the Devil’ at Chicago International Film Festival
15 October 2009 12:46 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Discovering young filmmaker talent is one of the most exciting elements of the Chicago International Film Festival. Writer/director Ti West is one of those discoveries, with his horror film premiere, “The House of the Devil.”
West has been building a resume since 2001, with his directorial debut “Wicked.” The House of the Devil is his fourth film, and has a horror/suspense feel that seems like the era he has set the film, in 1983.
Mary Woronov as Mrs. Ulman in ‘The House of the Devil’
Photo credit: © Magnolia Pictures
Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is a poor college student, who desires a new apartment but doesn’t have the deposit. A mysterious sign for a babysitter piques her interest, and the mysterious gentleman (Tom Noonan) finds her perfect for the job. The assignment involves a big house and some inexplicable noises, and what the sitter must oversee might be more than she expected.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Little Scene: Roman Polanski’s The Tenant
5 October 2009 9:19 AM, PDT
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Whether you see Roman Polanski as a dirty old man or as a masterpiece making auteur, watching him going mad, dressing in full drag and cooing “I'm pregnant!” towards the camera probably isn't going to change your mind either way. Its terrifying and hilarious no matter which side of the fence you sit. The Tenant, the last film in a loose trilogy dealing with urban loneliness at its most horrific, is far funnier and darker in atmosphere in many ways than both Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion.
It deals with Trelovsky (Polanski) who snaps up an apartment in Paris while its previous resident is still in a coma after mysteriously jumping from the window. Trelovsky meets Stella (The gorgeously geeky Isabel Adjani) at the barely breathing ex tenants bedside and Polanski takes us deep into what it is he does best as our little anti hero's paranoia is pushed into the
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- Neil Innes
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Documentary on Roman Polanski: the sequel
30 September 2009
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A sequel is being made to the documentary about Roman Polanski's 1977 legal battle, which will include his arrest.
As Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar join the numerous Roman Polanski fans who have called for his immediate release, two
directors are already thinking of turning the delicate affair into a documentary. The first is none other than Brett Ratner, who directed the legendary French-Polish moviemaker in "Rush Hour 3", and the other is Marina Zenovich.
Zenovich is famous for having made "Roman Polanski, Wanted and Desired", the documentary about the maker of "Chinatown", that goes into explicit detail about how Polanski, after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor in 1977, was the victim of a legal-political farce. The judge who was in charge of the case, Laurence Rittenband, dreamt of putting away a celebrity to become one himself, and played on Polanski physical size, his foreign accent,
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- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
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Say It Ain’t So! Michael Bay to Remake ‘The Tenant?’
9 September 2009 11:56 AM, PDT
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I hate Michael Bay. I don't care for his production company called Platinum Dunes either. How does one go from directing Playboy and music videos to getting a classic 80's childhood sci-fi television series movie deal? It is beyond me.
Today, I learned that Bay will producing a remake of Roman Polanski's 1976 psychological thriller The Tenant. For now, this is only a rumor until I hear confirmation but I can't help but to not hold back any comment or opinion I may have about this. I have The Tenant and not many people can say that. It is a very unlikely film for Bay to pick up because there are no bells, whistles or anything remotely flashy about the cult film. He'll probably get Shia Ladouche to play Trelkovsky, the lead character played by Polanksi himself in the original, and then he'll throw in loads of assault rifles and
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- Steven
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #6
30 August 2009 2:58 AM, PDT
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Outside of seeing three films in theaters this week I also took in nine titles at home including films from Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polanski, Claude Lelouch and two from Chan-wook Park. It's a mixed bag going from a movie about a girl with a machine gun arm to a film from the French New Wave.
As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. Now, here's the recap of my week in movies...
The Machine Girl (2008)
Quick Thoughts: I can't remember which one of the Netflix friends I have had this in their queue, but I saw it and noticed it was on Instant Play and just had to give it a watch. I mean, at 96 minutes who wouldn't want to give a movie about a girl with a machine gun on her arm a chance? Well, I gave it a chance and must say,
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- Brad Brevet
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The Tenant (Book Review)
27 August 2009 6:28 AM, PDT
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Roman Polanski's slavishly faithful adaptation of Roland Topor's novel should have helped cement it in place as an important and often referenced work in the horror genre. But like so many subtler efforts The Tenant was long ago lost in the white noise. It isn’t just that Topor's novel is emotionally complex enough to escape easy genre labels, but that the fate of its primary character Trelkovsky is resolutely irresolvable. What seems like a simple, straightforward tale of mental disintegration, shifts underfoot until the reader feels themselves toppling off whatever assumptions seemed secure. The end result is an impact every bit as unpleasant as it is profound.
Trelkovsky is a young man in urgent need of a place to live. Coming upon an apartment in the city he moves in only to discover that what should have been a godsend is a living nightmare. Harassed by
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (David Canfield)
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Blu-Ray Review: Roman Polanski’s ‘Repulsion’ More Riveting Than Ever
31 July 2009 12:58 PM, PDT
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Chicago – I unabashedly adore “Repulsion”. A lot of Roman Polanski’s work in the ’60s and ’70s - “Repulsion,” “The Tenant,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Chinatown” - stand as influential films in why I became a film critic and lover of movies in general. So, a Criterion edition of “Repulsion” is kind of a wish-list dream made reality. It lives up to my high expectations.
Blu-Ray Rating: 5.0/5.0
1965’s “Repulsion” was years ahead of its time in its transcendence of the modern horror film - It’s not what’s out there that should scare you, it’s what’s in your own mind. “Repulsion” is about urban alienation, paranoia, and the nightmare that could be going on in the apartment next door. It’s a revolutionary, riveting piece of cinema that should be as required viewing as the best of Alfred Hitchcock, if it’s not already.
Repulsion was released on Blu-Ray on July 28th,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Repulsion Blu Ray Review
30 July 2009 10:05 AM, PDT
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I've been meaning to remedy my ignorance when it comes to the work of Roman Polanski. For some reason, I've never really gotten past his 'hits' and explored any of his earlier works like Knife in the Water or The Tenant. Thanks to the Criterion Collection's recent blu ray release of 'Repulsion', Polanski is, in my eyes, no longer simply the old cop guy from Rush Hour 3.
I'm not even sure what Polanski is 'known for'. Wait...let me ammend that. I do know what he's known for. I'm not sure what Polanski is known for in regards to the themes and stylistic choices prevalant in his film work. I have read about such things, but I haven't seen enough of his films to formulate my own opinion on what makes a Polanski film a Polanski film. However, I'm not a complete idiot. I have seen Rosemary's Baby
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- Jay C.
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Polanski's Scariest Movie Getting Criterion Treatment
21 May 2009 3:03 PM, PDT
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The Roman Polanski horror movie everyone knows and loves is, of course, Rosemary's Baby (and to some extent The Ninth Gate, except for the "loves" part, though I think that one gets a bad rap). But the seriously scary Polanski film that is criminally underseen -- though generally appreciated by those who see it -- is his 1996 effort Repulsion, the first movie in his "apartment trilogy" that would conclude with Baby and The Tenant. Certainly it's the scariest movie about sex that you'll ever see, putting Teeth to shame. (Any other contenders?) A character study that gradually reveals a very disturbed psyche, it's super-creepy in insinuating, unconventional ways. (Remember the constantly ticking clock in Rosemary's Baby? It's here too. And mysterious bells. And sometimes the sound just cuts out...)
If you've never seen Repulsion -- as I hadn't until very recently -- you might hold out for July 28th, when
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- Eugene Novikov
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The Court of Public Opinion -- Dellamorte reviews Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired on DVD
2 February 2009
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Roman Polanski has directed at least four out and out masterpieces: Rosemary’s Baby, Knife in the Water, Chinatown and The Pianist. To say nothing of Bitter Moon, Cul-de-sac, Repulsion, MacBeth, and The Tenant. Or even the solid but unspectacular films like Death and the Madien or Frantic. But as the old joke goes, you sodomize one drugged up thirteen-year-old, and that how people think of you. That may sound flippant, but in the court of public opinion that is all Polanski is. A dirty European who fled from justice and has lived abroad in sin ever since. There is no defending what Polanski did, but if you watch the engrossing documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, you will hear some sideways defenses. One person suggest that as Roman is from a European culture, and that sleeping with an underage girl is not all that unusual
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