HBO Polanski documentary (1 Viewer)

[Pram Stroker]

Anyone seen this?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMieQzq1snc"]YouTube - Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired (HBO)[/ame]

 

[cmndr mind fuck]

one of the reviewers from newstalk, apparently worked with him,years ago on his work experience. seen a few of his movies, Repulsion stands out..

 

[Alan Remorse]

Yeah, Repulsion is class. Really like Frantic aswell.

 

[Pram Stroker]

Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown are unbelievable films.
Cul De Sac, Repulsion, The Tenant, Knife In The Water all great too.
Not really mad on The Pianist or Bitter Moon.
The Ninth Gate is utter crud though.

Don't really know where to stand on him personally... that's why i'd like to see this documentary.

 

[Reets]

chinatown is a fantastic film, i watched rosemarys baby a while ago, turned out it was a friday the 13th and my sister went into labour early and had her son that night, his names damien, havent watch the film since.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

on BBC Four NOW

repeated
tomorrow night at midnight

 

[Mitchum]

From the trailer to The Tenant:

"No one does it to you like Roman Polanski!"

Haw haw.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

awesome director. fascinating guy

 

[Alan Remorse]

I really should watch more Polanski movies.

All I've seen are Chinatown, Repulsion, Frantic and Rosemary's Baby. Love them all.

Would be particularly interested to see his version of Macbeth seeing as it was his first after Sharon Tate was killed... Also I reckon Knife In The Water could be decent but haven't found it on dvd.

Any others stand out?

 

[Mitchum]

Any others stand out?

The Tenant.

Genuinely creepy. Although that's mostly due to Isabelle Adjani's '1970's Deirdre Barlow' frizz.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

macbeth is excellent. it's pretty harrowing given the back story. fearless vampire killers, the pianist, the tennant & frantic are all great. chinatown, rosemary's baby and repulsion the obvious classics. bitter moon and the ninth gate are so so. death and the maiden not so good. haven't seen cul-de-sac.
he's been linked to the film adaption of the ghost by robert harris, which is supposed to be great

 

[Alan Remorse]

Cool, thanks. Just reading about the Tennant and it definitely seems like I'd like it.

I think Frantic is probably my favourite so far.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

I met Ben Kingsley in the Ambassador jacks at the premiere of Death and The Maiden. 1995 DFF.

Made small talk.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Cul De Sac and The Tenant are brilliant. The latter should have starred John Lithgow.

 

[Alan Remorse]

On a tangent here but has anyone seen the Jim Van Bebber movie about the Manson Family...? Is it worth a watch?

I've seen mixed reviews. I'm not really interested in seeing yet another run of the mill eploitation flick really.

 

[Froog]

saw the documentary last night, the trial was a farce, the judge was a complete dick.

 

[Pram Stroker]

Wow, Polanski's just been arrested on this 31 year old warrant!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Wow, Polanski's just been arrested on this 31 year old warrant!

Don't fuck with the US Justice Department.
They will get you.
Those cunts have a memory like Jimmy Magee and can out-wait religion if they have to.

 

[Ferox13]

On a tangent here but has anyone seen the Jim Van Bebber movie about the Manson Family...? Is it worth a watch?

I've seen mixed reviews. I'm not really interested in seeing yet another run of the mill eploitation flick really.

I loved it but I'm a big VanBebber fan - the stuff that was shot to look like the 60's was great - the modern day sideplot not so much..

 

[Froog]

whoopi goldberg defends polanski:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-whoopi-goldberg

Hollywood has rallied behind Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland over the weekend, with the actor Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that whatever he was guilty of it wasn't "rape-rape".
As a guest on The View chatshow on US television, she said: "I know it wasn't rape-rape. It was something else but I don't believe it was rape-rape.