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Tag Archives: roman polanski
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
“Forgetting Chinatown will be exceedingly difficult with this stunning new Blu-ray transfer from Paramount, brimming over with a tidal pool of extras, even if they aren’t necessarily new to this edition.” Read my review of the Blu-ray release of Chinatown, … Continue reading
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Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2010)
“Stark and stripped-down, Jerzy Skolomowski’s Essential Killing is a fatalistic fable eschewing the political in favor of the existential, now available in a fittingly barebones DVD package from New Video.” Read my review of Essential Killing, an essential new film … Continue reading
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Tagged emmanuelle seigner, essential killing, jerzy skolimowski, roman polanski, vincent gallo
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Capsule Reviews: May 30 – June 2
A Generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955) – 3/5 Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957) – 5/5 Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958) – 5/5 A Generation – the first installment in Andrzej Wajda’s War Trilogy – portrays the experiences of an idealistic young … Continue reading
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Tagged a generation, above suspicion, alfred hitchcock, andrzej wajda, arthur penn, ashes and diamonds, black narcissus, cinema, cinema reviews, conrad veidt, dick powell, douglas fairbanks, dustin hoffman, eugen schufftan, faye dunaway, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, fred macmurray, it happened tomorrow, joan crawford, john ford, kanal, linda darnell, little big man, los olividados, luis bunuel, michael powell, movie, movie reviews, movies, raoul walsh, rene clair, roman polanski, sabu, simon of the desert, the graduate, the man who knew too much, the pianist, the searchers, the thief of bagdad, under the roofs of paris, wajda's war trilogy
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Capsule Reviews: April 23 – 30
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) – 4/5 Paul Mazursky’s screenwriting debut tells the uproarious story of a square Jewish lawyer Harold Fine (Peter Sellers) who tunes in, turns on and drops out with hippie Leigh Taylor-Young. Mazursky uses … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 pick-up, Al Pacino, ann-margret, before the devil knows you're dead, ben gazzara, ben kingsley, blume in love, bob & carol & ted & alice, carol channing, cecil b. demille, cinema, cinema reviews, death and the maiden, dog day afternoon, donald pleasance, dyan cannon, ella raines, elliott gould, elmore leonard, film, film criticism, film review, film reviews, gary sherman, george segal, groucho marx, humprey bogart, husbands, i love you alice b. toklas, in a lonely place, jackie gleason, john cassavetes, john cazale, john frankenheimer, john glover, john huston, luis bunuel, movie, movie reviews, movies, natalie wood, network, nicholas ray, otto preminger, paul mazursky, peter falk, peter sellers, phantom lady, raw meat, robert culp, robert siodmak, roman polanski, roy scheider, salvador dali, seconds, sidney lumet, sigourney weaver, skidoo, stanley kubrick, susan anspach, the godless girl, the shining, treasure of the sierra madre, un chien andalou
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