Roman Polanski, then...

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For some reason, I've never been a fan. I saw Rosemary's Baby, Cul De Sac, Chinatown, and errr, The Ninth Gate, but stopped there. Of those four, I only really enjoyed ("got"?) Chinatown. However, I think it's time I gave dirty old Roman a second chance. Where should I start? I've never seen The Tenant or Repulsion, so I guess either of those would be decent jumping off points...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:11 (twenty years ago) link

Repulsion bored me...I ended up ffwding hoping to find dirty parts but they weren't there. Chinatown was enjoyable but I wish they'd kept Towne's original ending. I actually enjoyed the Ninth Gate a bit as camp - though the ending was weak.

Actually my favorite Polanski film is probably Bitter Moon. Peter Coyote in a wheelchair telling dirty anecdotes to Hugh Grant until their world explodes. Nice!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

Can't imagine if you disliked Rosemary's Baby you'll find much value in the other two segments of the apartment "trilogy." Still, I'm too much of a fan of both Repulsion and The Tenant to do anything else but impore you to see them both as fast as you can. And, yes, Bitter Moon was fantastic.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 December 2003 06:49 (twenty years ago) link

Repulsion and The Tenant are Polanski's two best films; it's true that they're similar to Rosemary's baby, but they're both better (none of the religious stuff, just pure closed space pcycho-drama). The Pianist was surprisingly good too, the best WWII film in ages.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 December 2003 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

Polanski is one of my favourite directors:

His first is very good: Knife in the Water: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AINJ8/metasoul

I never saw the tenant but I think I would enjoy it (it was written by Roland Topor)

Jan

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Thursday, 18 December 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link

Oh,

And don't forget the Fearless Vampire Killers

http://www.jahsonic.com/RomanPolanski.html

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Thursday, 18 December 2003 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

I think The Tenant is one of the scariest/funniest movies ever made. Ditto Repulsion except for the funny. Tuomas, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant are all part of an unofficial but deliberate trilogy on the subject of apartment-dweller paranoia-- and they all deal with it uniquely, I think.

― antexit (antexit), Friday, 19 December 2003 07:14 (twenty years ago) link

I love most Polanski films: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant, The 9th Gate, but absolutely detest The Fearless Vampire Killers. It is neither funny or sacry, and deeply unenteraining. I couldn't wait for it to finish.

― Moston (Moston), Saturday, 20 December 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

He's going all late Anthony Mann (or Irwin Allen) with Pompeii:

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/02/02/roman-polanski-has-decided-to-destroy-pompeii/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_en_ot/roman_polanski

― velko, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link

lol, didn't realize i posted on this graveyard

― velko, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 07:13 (fifteen years ago) link

lol, graveyard; that's giving it too much credit

― Eric H., Tuesday, 13 January 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

Sad really, the movie posts SHOULD go here...

― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Why? ILE has done fine as the repository of film threads for 8 years now.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah 'fine'

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link

By that, I mean people talk and threads don't die after three posts.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link

That is true. It's more a principle/efficiency thing - there are enough threads to warrant ILF, and ILE is always super clogged as it is.

― Nhex, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link

love this guy's films

― eman, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/polanski/images/enlarged/bfi-00m-y3x.jpg

― eman, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Cul de Sac is my absolute favorite.

Repulsion is, according to my shrink father, an accurate rendition of what it's like to be a schizophrenic.

― warmsherry, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

cul de sac was oddly dull

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

^ ugh

― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.prada.com/it/a-therapy/movie

― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

hopefully that has a duration more becoming of ilx </morbs

― Serov devochka s persikami (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link

I thought the ending of Repulsion might suggest that there is someone within the family, or just outside the frame, that might be party somehow to Deneuve's madness.

― calstars, Monday, 28 May 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link

Also noticed that a group of older people and/or apartment building residents all get together for the ending scenes of Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, and the Tenant.

― calstars, Monday, 28 May 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

just saw rosemary's baby for the first time. wasnt at all what i expected- far more interesting, and funny. and fucked up.

― nakh is the wintour of our diss content (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link

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