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Tag Archives: Roman Polanski
Based on a True Story AKA D’après une histoire vraie (2017) Roman Polanski, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez
Basking in the tremendous success of her debut autobiographical novel dedicated Read More »
An Officer and a Spy AKA J’accuse (2019) Roman Polanski, Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer Read More »
What? AKA Che? (1972) Roman Polanski, Marcello Mastroianni, Sydne Rome, Hugh Griffith
A young American woman (Sydne Rome) traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems right. Read More »
Pirates (1986) Roman Polanski, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. Read More »
Rosemarys Baby (1968) Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Drama, Horror
Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
Frantic (1988) Roman Polanski, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A doctor and his wife go to Paris for a medical conference. While showering, his wife disappears. Read More »
Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski, Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Read More »
Zemsta / The Revenge (2002) Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Comedy
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier’s niece. Read More »
Death and the Maiden (1994) Roman Polanski, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. Read More »
Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Crime, Drama, Mystery
JJ ‘Jake’ Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city’s water supply system, of having an affair.
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The Tenant / Le locataire (1976) Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Thriller, Drama
In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trelkovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trelkovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide.
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Nóz w wodzie / The Knife in the Water (1962) Roman Polanski, Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Well off Andrzej and Krystyna’s marriage is at a stage where familiarity breeds contempt, that contempt which is outwardly shown only behind closed doors and only when an incident of some sort sets off one or the other. While driving through the countryside on a Sunday on their way to the lake to embark on an overnight sailing excursion, they almost run over a young male hitchhiker. Despite the antagonism between Andrzej and the hitchhiker, Andrzej offers him a ride as far as the marina. By the time they reach the lake, their antagonism has dissipated enough that Andrzej asks if he would like to join them on their sailing trip. The hitchhiker accepts despite knowing nothing about sailing. As the sailing trip progresses, the antagonism between the two men begins to increase again, fueled on both sides as each strives to be the alpha male. Andrzej needs to show his superiority, while the hitchhiker needs to show that his young age and inexperience, not only with sailing but with life in…
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