*Frantic* is a Polanski masterpiece.It is an effect only Polanski holds.That is *The Psychology* & *The Dimension*... -Todays trendy Mac Donalds-Moves of camera fashions,cars crashed in chain,how the ultimate vamp got the big shot,which gang of awfully nasty guys got more bloody in Vogue style...........- these narrow,little & one dimensional tactics to catch audiences are not what makes *The Cinema*. Directors like *Polanski* are what makes *The Cinema*. Every single Movie by Polanski is a subject for academic students of Cinema & a book for academics of Cinema. PS:My comment is about *Director Polanski* not about *Polanski's Life*...
Roman Polanski is a twisted, sick, sexually perverted man who's also a genuine inspiration and a fucking fantastic filmmaker. Working my way through his work, I'm stunned by his stylistic versatility yet general thematic coherence -- a pitch-black view of humanity and its tendencies for destruction of self and environment. YEEAAHHHH MOTTHERFUCKAHHHH
Polanski's short film -essential- is amazing. great sense of humor experiment and great archive. and, I think polanski's talent is should be showing completely, again. is it possible?
Uh oh: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100514/ap_en_ot/us_roman_polanski
I submitted Frantic to be added yesterday. Hopefully, it will be very soon now.
Please add Frantic and The Ninth Gate, both exceptionnal films (especially Frantic one of the best films ever)
I love 'The Ninth Gate' almost as much as 'Rosemary's Baby', it's so underrated.
GINO i completely agree, but alas that's just what people do. Why do you think celebrity gossip has been deemed more important then any other social issue? haha
My favorite films are: The Tenant Repulsion Rosemary's baby The tenant was wonderfully tense and intensely claustrophobic film with a slowly escalating and relentless psychologically terror. Roman Polanski stays true to his style from Rosemary's Baby and Repulsion. But this movie is more than a simple examination of the onset of insanity from within the person who is experiencing it. The theme of loneliness and the sense of purposeless petty existence are the real backdrop of this excellent work, the fact which makes it similar to Kubrick's Shining.
Death and the Maiden shows how brilliant his visual knack for suspense pairs with a powerful play that carries his reoccurring themes of survival, violence, rape, injustice, and most surprisingly: the possibility of hope.
The best Polanski film ever made is the Tragedy of Lady Macbeth. My other Polanski favorites are Rosemary's Baby Repulsion Knife in the Water