Articles tagged "roman polanski"

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Chinatown (Centennial Collection)

by Shaun Huston

[18.Nov.09] :. Despite bringing film noir into the daylight and into color, this is among the darkest of Southern California tales.

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Repulsion

by Matt Mazur

[14.Aug.09] :. This is the culmination of two artists upping their personal antes to produce greatness, two burgeoning legends of cinema testing their seemingly-limitless powers.

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Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 1

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Oct.08] :. Day One - A trip back to the classic days of studio system Hollywood, complete with great musicals, amazing adventure yarns, and a couple of post-modern freak outs, just to keep things controversial and lively.

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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jul.08] :. None of the interviewees in Marina Zenovich's fascinating documentary manages to make sense of the famous filmmaker's behavior or apparent thinking. But they all have compelling impressions.

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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.08] :. In Wanted and Desired, Roman Polanski's liability is framed by that of the police, the judge, and the press especially, the hysteria that twisted the case at every turn.

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Column: Dread Reckoning

The Demise of Horror Culture?

by Marco Lanzagorta

[13.May.08] :. While the horror classics of 1968 may have indeed revitalized the genre, few today are aware of these movies' impact on the canon...if they acknowledge them at all.

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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Jake

by Bill Gibron

[22.Feb.08] :. Chinatown remains a stalwart of '70s cinema. The uninspired follow-up 16 years later reminds one that, sometimes, a masterpiece needs to simply be left alone.

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Oliver Twist (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. Oliver is an emblem of Polanski's own thematic obsessions: human cruelty, alienation and dislocation, and above all, identity fragmentation.

 

Tess (Special Edition) (1979)

by Michael Healey

[18.Oct.04] :. It is the emphasis, in both Hardy's novel and Polanski's skillful adaptation, on Tess as an individual that makes her story timeless.

 

The Tenant (1976)

by Jake Euker

[14.Jul.03] :. 'I think I'm pregnant,' Roman Polanski coos beguilingly to the mirror in his 1976 film, The Tenant.

 

The Pianist (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Jan.03] :. Confronted by one horror after another, Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is a startlingly original film protagonist.

 

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp. The match seems made in heaven, these two notoriously eccentric, fascinating, and difficult geniuses, plying their crafts, inspiring brilliance in one another.

 

The Ninth Gate (1999)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In The Ninth Gate, perennial provocateur Roman Polanski throws in his contribution to the millennial apocalypse/Armageddon/hell-on-earth films that have recently been such a staple of the action/adventure genre.