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Post by Michael on Feb 25, 2006 19:49:10 GMT
I give Last Days a 9 and Elephant an 8, just to clarify.
This is simply because while I enjoyed both films very much, I thought Last Days was slightly better and more powerful. Michael Pitt gave one of the best performances (or non-performances) by an American actor I have ever seen, and the film brought out emotions in me I never thought I had.
Elephant is a great film which I enjoyed watching, but Last Days is just a notch better IMO. And giving Elephant an 8 and Last Days a 9 reflects that for me.
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Post by mikola on Apr 28, 2006 17:57:59 GMT
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Post by jake on Jun 11, 2006 14:05:35 GMT
1. Chinatown (1974)  2. Rosemary's Baby (1968) 3. Repulsion (1965) 4. Bitter Moon (1992) 5. The Pianist (2002) 6. Nóz w wodzie Knife in the Water (1961)  7. The Ninth Gate (1999) |
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Post by Michael on Jun 11, 2006 14:33:46 GMT
Chinatown back to 3 stars? Any specific reason?
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Post by jake on Jun 11, 2006 14:44:35 GMT
I really need to watch it one more time for confirmation; It used to be my number one film at one point and it spawned my screen name on the old board which I've just shortened here.
I think I'm arbitrarily keeping it on my four-star films list for nostalgic reasons. Thinking about it there is now quite a few other films I like more. The other films on my list mean more to me than Chinatown, which I keep a few pegs below.
I still love it, but I'm really trying to keep the list to the films that I've found life-changing, which was the original purpose of the list in the first place.
This is a nice avatar though, I don't think I'll change that.
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Post by Michael on Jun 11, 2006 14:47:26 GMT
Cool. I took it off my elite list when I switched to the 5 star system, mainly because I've only seen it once.
I agree it's an amazing film.
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Post by The Ghost of LLC on Jul 7, 2006 21:06:49 GMT
1.) Chinatown (1975)  2.) The Pianist (2002) |
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Post by Boz on Aug 18, 2006 10:02:09 GMT
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Post by Boz on Feb 4, 2007 21:40:49 GMT
From Rotten Tomatoes:
Roman Polanski will direct the adaptation of Robert Harris' best-selling novel "Pompeii," which will begin filming in Italy this summer.
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Post by Capo on Feb 4, 2007 23:35:38 GMT
I read Harris's Fatherland a while ago, and it was brilliant. There's apparently an adaptation around of it already, but I'd love to see one myself.
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Post by Michael on Oct 25, 2008 2:41:04 GMT
1. Chinatown (1974) *****
2. The Pianist (2002) ***
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Post by Anasazie on Nov 2, 2008 0:56:07 GMT
1. Chinatown (1974) 9/10
2. Repulsion (1965) 9/10
3. Cul-de-sac (1966) 8/10
4. The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) 7/10
5. Knife in the Water (1963) 7/10
6. The Tenant (1976) 7/10
7. The Pianist (2002) 7/10
8. Death and the Maiden (1994) 7/10
9. Frantic (1988) 6/10
10. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) 5/10
11. Rosemary's Baby (1968) 5/10
12. Oliver Twist (2005) 5/10
13. Bitter Moon (1992) 4/10
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Post by quentincompson on Nov 3, 2008 0:31:45 GMT
1.Chinatown 9/10
2.Knife in the Water 8/10
3.Repulsion 8/10
4.The Tenant 8/10
5.Cul-de-sac 7/10
6.The Ninth Gate 6/10
7.Rosemary's Baby 5/10
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Post by Capo on Sept 27, 2009 16:28:22 GMT
>>> BBC News
Film director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody in Switzerland and faces extradition to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
Mr Polanski, 76, was detained on Saturday as he travelled from France to collect a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival.
The Swiss Justice Ministry said he was being held under a 2005 international alert issued by the US government.
A spokesman said the US would now have to make a formal extradition request.
The director can contest his detention and any extradition decision in the Swiss courts, he added.
Mr Polanski's lawyer, Georges Kiejman, said he planned to challenge his client's arrest.
"We are going to try to lift the arrest warrant in Zurich," he told France Info radio. "The [extradition] convention between Switzerland and the United States is not very clear."
Mr Polanski fled the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with an underage girl.
He was initially indicted on six counts and faced up to life in prison.
In recent years, he has tried to have the rape case dismissed, claiming the original judge, who is now dead, arranged a plea bargain but later reneged.
Earlier this year, Judge Peter Espinoza agreed there was misconduct by the judge in the original case, but said Mr Polanski must return to the US to apply for dismissal.
Mr Polanski's lawyers said he would not return to the US because he would be immediately arrested as a fugitive.
The victim at the centre of the case, Samantha Geimer, has previously asked for the charges to be dropped, saying the continued publication of details "causes harm to me, my husband and children".
She has also called the court's insistence that Mr Polanski appear in person "a cruel joke".
'Shock and dismay'
The Paris-born Polish filmmaker - who is also a French citizen - has not set foot in the US for more than 30 years.
His Oscar for directing 2002 film The Pianist was collected by Harrison Ford, who had previously starred in his 1988 thriller, Frantic.
France's culture minister said he was "dumbfounded" by Mr Polanski's detention in Switzerland.
Frederic Mitterrand said he "strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them".
He added that French President Nicolas Sarkozy was "following the case with great attention and shares the minister's hope that the situation can be quickly resolved".
The organisers of the Zurich Film Festival said Polanski's detention had caused "shock and dismay", but that they would go ahead with a planned retrospective of the director's work.
A special ceremony is planned for Sunday night "to allow everyone to express their solidarity for Roman Polanski and their admiration for his work", festival managers said in a statement.
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Post by svsg on Sept 27, 2009 17:01:38 GMT
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Post by Omar on Sept 27, 2009 20:05:30 GMT
I can't believe this! Wow!  I was following his case earlier this year with all that stuff about earlier court misconduct and him coming back to the US to contest. Now, unfortunately, he will have his "chance". But the link you provide svsg is telling. I know some could care less, but what do you all think on the life of an artist and how it effects their art, in specific regard to Polanski? I went through his filmography earlier this year, and the majority of his films deal with sexuality, and most involve rape. Mia Farrow is raped by the devil in "Rosemary's Baby" and there is the incestuous rape elements of "Chinatown". Even the first film he made after his own rape case, "Tess", features a disturbing rape scene. The biggest irony of all is probably his 1994 film Death and the Maiden, in which a rape/torture victim (Sigourney Weaver) gets one night to enact revenge on her violator (Ben Kingsley) after he gets stranded near her isolated cottage. The entire time watching it, I couldn't help but wonder what kind of thoughts and reflections were going through Weaver's, Kingley's, and especially Polanski's mind during the making of the film. I think he is a great director and I admire many of his films, and I think he has suffered most of his life, whether at the hands of the Holocaust or the brutal murder of his pregnant wife, and the media backlash that followed. The case in question, however, is deplorable. |
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Post by Capo on Sept 28, 2009 14:16:09 GMT
Very strange. I don't know what to think or make of this, morally, because it seems all too easy to drown the entire thing in ad hominem statements; I don't think his 'suffering' can or should account for having sex with a thirteen-year-old, but I do think these things can be prone to fabrication, exaggeration and cynical opportunism.
Unrelated: have you guys seen the crime scene picture(s) of Sharon Tate's body?
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Post by quentincompson on Sept 29, 2009 7:29:11 GMT
Should someone even be held accountable for something they did 30 years ago? I think in Korea if you're not convicted for a crime after 10 years then your let off scott free, even in murder cases.
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Post by svsg on Sept 29, 2009 18:20:35 GMT
I have been thinking about this story ever since I read this a few days ago.
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Post by theundergroundman on Sept 29, 2009 18:39:28 GMT
Features:
1. Chinatown (1974) - [blue]9/10[/blue]
2. Repulsion (1965) - [blue]8/10[/blue]
3. The Pianist (2002) - [blue]7/10[/blue]
4. Rosemary's Baby (1968) - [blue]7/10[/blue]
5. Frantic (1988) - [blue]6/10[/blue]
Shorts:
1. Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) - [blue]7/10[/blue]
2. When Angels Fall (1959) - [blue]7/10[/blue]
3. The Fat and the Lean (1961) - [blue]6/10[/blue]
4. The Lamp (1959) - [blue]6/10[/blue]
5. Mammals (1962) - [blue]6/10[/blue]
6. A Murder (1957) - [blue]5/10[/blue]
7. Teeth Smile (1957) - [blue]5/10[/blue]
8. Break Up the Dance (1957) - [blue]5/10[/blue]
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