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Your favorite R. Polanksi film??

Started by Capetan Mihali, September 29, 2009, 05:34:15 PM

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What is your favorite Polanski-directed movie?

An early Polish one (specify)
0 (0%)
Knife in the Water (1962)
0 (0%)
Repulsion (1965)
1 (3%)
Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
4 (12.1%)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
3 (9.1%)
Macbeth (1971)
2 (6.1%)
Chinatown (1974)
9 (27.3%)
The Tenant (1976)
3 (9.1%)
Tess (1979)
2 (6.1%)
Pirates (1986)
1 (3%)
Bitter Moon (1992)
2 (6.1%)
The Pianist (2002)
5 (15.2%)
Other
1 (3%)

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Capetan Mihali

September 29, 2009, 05:34:15 PM
It had to be asked, after all the hoopla.  I didn't list every movie he directed, for space reasons, but feel free to add your own choice.  I haven't seen them all, but "The Tenant" is my personal favorite.  Not as good a film as "Chinatown" or even "Rosemary's Baby," perhaps, but I kind of like Polanski's acting in the main role, and for sheer creepy extremity it is great.  I highly recommend it if you liked "Repulsion" or "Rosemary's Baby."



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Malthus

#1
September 29, 2009, 05:37:15 PM
I'm a fan of "the Tenant" as well. Very creepy.  :D
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CountDeMoney

#2
September 29, 2009, 05:38:42 PM
I dunno, all things considered, I never really considered his films all that.
Sure Chinatown is a classic, but it's actually a better screenplay than a film.
Rosemary's Baby?  Meh.  Exorcist pwn3d it and set the bar for Satan shit.

Brian de Palma has a better body of work anyhow.

Admiral Yi

#3
September 29, 2009, 05:41:04 PM
The Pee Nest.  Very good film, it will hold up.  Already mentioned that Chinatown is overrated.  Saw a bit of Rosemary's Baby and was not impressed.

Josephus

#4
September 29, 2009, 05:41:56 PM
Liked a few of his earlier body of work, but I'd vote Rosemary's Baby, just cause the Devil gets laid in it.
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Capetan Mihali

#5
September 29, 2009, 05:42:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 29, 2009, 05:38:42 PM
Brian de Palma has a better body of work anyhow.

The last de Palma I saw was his adaptation of James Ellroy's "Black Dahlia."  The movie was okay, but I'd read the book before, at a more impressionable age, and it couldn't match it in impact.
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CountDeMoney

#6
September 29, 2009, 05:46:27 PM
Quote from: Capetan Mihali on September 29, 2009, 05:42:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 29, 2009, 05:38:42 PM
Brian de Palma has a better body of work anyhow.

The last de Palma I saw was his adaptation of James Ellroy's "Black Dahlia."  The movie was okay, but I'd read the book before, at a more impressionable age, and it couldn't match it in impact.

Wasn't too thrilled with it.  But, I'll put up "Dressed To Kill", "Scarface", "Body Double", "The Untouchables", and especially "Carlito's Way" up against the Kiddiefucker's list.

Eddie Teach

#7
September 29, 2009, 05:49:01 PM
Is there a connection between De Palma and Polanski?
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Sheilbh

#8
September 29, 2009, 05:51:27 PM
I think Republsion.

Catherine Deneuve :mmm:
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CountDeMoney

#9
September 29, 2009, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 29, 2009, 05:49:01 PM
Is there a connection between De Palma and Polanski?

Other than they have furriner names, no.

DisturbedPervert

#10
September 29, 2009, 06:14:22 PM
The Pianist, it's the only one I've seen all the way through.  Was good, but not drug a chick and fuck her butt good.

Tried to watch Chinatown yesterday, thought it was going to be about Chinese immigrants or Chinatown society or something.  Stopped half way through.

Eddie Teach

#11
September 29, 2009, 06:18:01 PM
So you missed the PURE AWESOMENESS of the "I'm her sister, I'm her mother" scene.
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saskganesh

#13
September 29, 2009, 06:29:15 PM
Chinatown is simply a great film, and I really enjoyed Vampire Killers, seeing it 20 years after Famous Monsters Magazine told me about it, but I voted for Macbeth. I liked a lot of the little things he did with that.

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Josquius

#14
September 29, 2009, 06:34:47 PM
I have to admit to not having seen many of them. The Pianist was pretty good.
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