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BITTER MOON
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Roman Polanski's story of two different couples whose wild dreams, fantasies and realities collide on a cruise to Istanbul in a tense game of sexual one-upmanship and menage-a-trois features Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote and Kristin Scott Thomas in a film that's been described as "Love Boat meets Last Tango in Paris." Roman Polanski---France/Great Britain---1992---139 mins.
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CARNAGE (POLANSKI)
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"Roman Polanski's brisk, fitfully amusing adaptation of Yasmina Reza's popular play...Carnage unfolds in something close to real time in a Brooklyn apartment...The first of only two exterior scenes is an opening long shot of Brooklyn Bridge Park, where some roughhousing among 11-year-olds ends with one boy, Zachary, striking another, Ethan, with a stick...The incident leaves Ethan with two missing teeth, and Zachary's parents, Alan and Nancy Cowen (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet), pay a visit to Ethan's parents, Penelope and Michael Longstreet (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly), to initiate a reconciliation between their sons. Yet as the four discuss the incident with initially polite deference over cobbler and coffee, their veneer of civility soon crumbles under the film's relentless scrutiny...Before anyone can say Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Michael breaks out the scotch, momentarily relieving the tension and lubricating them all for the next round...Carnage is still largely a hoot...and the level of craft at work is something to behold" (Justin Chang, Variety). Winner of the Little Golden Lion ("aww") at Venice and nominated for two Golden Globes. In English.
Roman Polanski---France---2011---79 mins.
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CHINATOWN
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Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway star in Roman Polanski's finely crafted, atmospheric film--the classic movie that brought film noir into its darkest territory yet. What begins as a routine matrimonial snoop job for an average gumshoe mushrooms into a murderous regional and personal scandal told with incredible style, surprises and a gripping narrative line. Outstanding performances by all, including John Huston as Dunaway's father and a cameo by Polanski as a great little sleaze. Roman Polanski---USA---1974---131 mins.
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CHINATOWN SPECIAL COLL EDITION
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Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway star in Roman Polanski's finely crafted, atmospheric film--the classic movie that brought film noir into its darkest territory yet. What begins as a routine matrimonial snoop job for an average gumshoe mushrooms into a murderous regional and personal scandal told with incredible style, surprises and a gripping narrative line. Outstanding performances by all, including John Huston as Dunaway's father and a cameo by Polanski as a great little sleaze. Roman Polanski---USA---1974---131 mins.
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CUL-DE-SAC (CRITERION)
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Two failed and wounded gangsters invade the lives of middle-aged milquetoast Donald Pleasance and his nubile young wife (Francoise Dorleac) in Roman Polanski's black comedy. Holding the odd couple hostage, the gangsters become increasingly irrational, and Pleasance is constantly challenged by his wife to take violent action in protest.
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DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
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Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson are featured in this adaptation of Ariel Dorfman's acclaimed play. A woman finally has the opportunity to see justice done for the wrong she suffered. She will go to any extreme--after all, her life was destroyed. It's a knockout psychological thriller.
Roman Polanski---France---1995---103 mins.
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FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
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Or Pardon Me, Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Roman Polanski directs (and appears in) this cult oddity, a vampire-film spoof that manages both horror and humor. The story involves a professor and his bumbling assistant, who set out to track down a coven of Transylvanian vampires. Cast includes Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass and Terry Downes. Roman Polanski---USA---1967---124 mins.
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FRANTIC (POLANSKI)
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Roman Polanski directs this thriller set in Paris, which finds Harrison Ford more than reasonably concerned when his wife Betty Buckley disappears. A Hitchcock-like plot involves switched luggage and a fetching young courier played by Emmanuelle Seigner. Great scenery and rooftop suspense. Roman Polanski---USA---1987---120 mins.
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GHOST WRITER
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Roman Polanski's first feature in five years finds the director returning to the bookish thriller territory he explored in Ninth Gate, where the machinations are never exactly frightening or funny, but skewed. Ewan McGregor stars as a scribe hired by a cryptic publisher to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan). The ghost's research at his subject's retreat on Martha's Vineyard reveals some nasty, life-threatening dirt. "A slow-burn near-masterpiece...Polanski has made a genre piece with a verve and vitality that's in sadly short supply" (Time Out New York). Featuring Kim Cattrall, Jim Belushi, Olivia Williams, Timothy Hutton, Eli Wallach and Tom Wilkinson. Winner of the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Direction at the Berlinale.
Roman Polanski---France/Great Britain/Germany---2010---128 mins.
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KNIFE IN THE WATER
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Polanski's Oscar-winning debut is an incisive study of three people--a married couple and a hitchhiker--spending a casual weekend on a yacht. Sure.
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MACBETH (POLANSKI)
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Roman Polanski's highly controversial version of Shakespeare's Macbeth stars Jon Finch as Macbeth in a graphically violent interpretation that struck some as entirely appropriate and others as rather excessive. Whatever one's reaction, there's no denying Polanski's visual command here. Many critics saw the director's bloody vision as a cathartic exercise in the aftermath of the horrific murder of his wife, Sharon Tate, in 1969. Roman Polanski---Great Britain---1971---141 mins.
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NINTH GATE
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Although it could be described as a horror film (and certainly was advertised as such), this finely crafted Roman Polanski film is closer in spirit to The Maltese Falcon than Rosemary's Baby. Based on one of several plotlines in Arturo Prez-Reverte's novel The Club Dumas, the film stars Johnny Depp as a cynical and corrupt rare books dealer who is hired by a wealthy collector (Frank Langella) to locate the last remaining copies of a book that may hold the power to summon the Devil himself. A dark, comic detective story with a wild, supernatural finish, it may not rank with the director's best work, but it is a smart and amusing diversion. Roman Polanski---USA/France---1999---133 mins.
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OLIVER TWIST (POLANSKI)
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Citing a desire to direct a film for his own children, Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski chose to adapt Charles Dickens' familiar classic about a young orphan who falls in with a gang of thieves in Victorian-era England. Barney Clark stars as the downtrodden youngster who cultivates relationships with a charismatic pickpocket (Harry Eden), a twisted father figure (Ben Kingsley), and a menacing, brutish thug (Jamie Foreman). While its lively performances and meticulous set pieces lend the film a dynamic energy, the plot parallels to Polanski's biography seep through to offer a dramatic counterweight. Roman Polanski---Great Britain/France/Czech Republic---2005---130 mins.
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PIANIST, THE (BRODY)
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Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winner of three, including best actor for Adrien Brody and best director for Roman Polanski, The Pianist is a harrowing and emotional look at one man's struggle to survive in the Polish ghetto during the Holocaust. The true story of Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, this epic film is a powerful testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. "One of the very few nondocumentary films about Jewish life and death under the Nazis that can be called definitive" (A.O. Scott, New York Roman Polanski---Great Britain/France/Poland/Germany---2002---148 mins.
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REPULSION
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Polanski's chilling study of madness stars Catherine Deneuve as a jealously sadistic schizophrenic, equally terrified of sex and leaving her apartment.
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REPULSION (CRITERION)
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Polanski's first English-language film, a chilling study of madness, stars Catherine Deneuve as a jealously sadistic schizophrenic, terrified of sex.
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ROSEMARY'S BABY
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Roman Polanski's horror masterpiece, in which Mia Farrow unknowingly carries the spawn of Satan under the supervision o two of Manhattan's best doctors.
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TESS (POLANSKI)
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Winner of three Academy Awards, Polanski's interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel is a beautiful and timeless masterwork destined to be a classic. Nastassia Kinski stars as Tess against the backdrop of a morally rigid Victorian England. The stunning cinematography is unforgettable. In English. Roman Polanski---France/Great Britain---1980---170 mins.
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