Roman Polanski, or pardon me but your poll is in my neck.

Repulsion was made in '65, dude. shit was shocking as fuck back then.

admittedly, i once wrote a 15-page term paper on disembodiment and psychosis in Repulsion, The Tenant and Rosemary's Baby, so my bias is more towards the shock of those films.

i mean, i can't even WATCH The Tenant any longer. it scares the hell out of me.

Don't think that the rabbit carcass was a shock tactic - along with the sprouting potato it is a measure of time and yes, an indicator of the rise of psychosis, but a fairly quiet one. I think if it was on its own then *maybe* I could agree, but it goes with the general disintegration of everything over time.

Also, the shift in mood is necessary - you go through life attempting to maintain your mind until, under pressure, it snaps. What is going to happen next, everything stays the same?

Hmm. Well, at any rate, the hands were B-movie bad. :P

Like I say, I'll need to see it again, but I wasn't overtly moved by it. Needed to be subtler, more incremental, and more devastating. In the end it was just a series of mournful vignettes concerning a lady at increasing odds with a slightly unnatural physicalisation of sexuality. It's almost like sex in that movie is a tangible presence, a character, rather than a verb, a natural engagement of humans. There was no sign of internal struggle, only complete desolation and opposition. I guess that's the point of the movie, but it didn't make for a well-rounded hypothesis on human nature.

I tend to look at the results of this poll as such:

Apartment Trilogy: 19 votes
Chinatown: 13

Anyway, Deneuve was in a film just 2 years later that was 3x as shocking, 5x as good, 10x as devastatingly psychological, and in colour. So ner.

(and a film moreover with a FAR more interesting take on sexuality, especially the contradictory and spry sexuality of its still-glacial star)

Belle du Jour?

Much as I love that film, your choices and descriptions are a real give away that you've never been a female.

I don't even think BDJ holds a candle to Bunuel's even-later masterpieces, but that's the comparison with Repulsion that I probably won't be able to shake, even though they ARE fairly different sorts of film.

Also, for "contradictory" and "spry" read "intoxicating" and "self-immolatory" or something, I dunno, it's all a big fantasy-reality mindfuck inflicted both on her and on the audience (Deneuve, a whore? That thug, her ideal of masculinity?) and its explorations of what fantasy can do (and what it privileges) are preferable imo to Polanki's exploration of what pure repulsion does.

Organizers of the Zurich Film Festival say director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant.

The organizers say Polanski was detained by police Saturday. Zurich police couldn't immediately confirm the information.

The festival said in a statement Sunday that Polanski traveled to Switzerland to receive an award for his lifetime of work as a director. They said he was arrested in relation to a 1978 U.S. request, without specifying.

Polanski fled the United States in 1978, a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.

Hadn't heard about him for a couple of years and now twice in two days: first, Susan Atkins dies, the next day, he's in the news again - ???

lol pwned

I hear that Osama bin Laden is going to win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival next year.

SUCKA

Doubt he was the sucka, Alex

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-z-shore/polanskis-arrest-shame-on_b_301134.html

o_O

Well, I kind of agree with that article (apart from the call for banning Swiss stuff, that is just silly). But I mean hey, it's been THREE DECADES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XTuc6i1Uo

the age of consent was 14?? the fuck?

i dunno, blaming the victim and whitewashing the fact that she was 13 ("almost 14")is some bullshit.

Of course, the "but the parents trusted her to be with him" is bogus. But it still seems utterly ridiculous to me for America to still claim his head on a platter.

There are surely more important issues in the world, and more villainous rogues at large that we should be attending to.

^^^^ always the kicker in a poorly argued defense

otm

dude served his time. don't know why they even care. it should all get tossed out due to the horribly corrupt judge during the original trial imo.

When did he serve his time?

look, at this point, i'm not sure dude should even serve any jail time or whatever. but don't try to defend him because he's "charming" or some bullshit.

he made some deal with the judge. the judge told him to serve a term at the psych ward, and if he pleaded guilty, they'd basically count that as his time served. he found out the judge was going to fuck him over so he fled.

Oh, right. And I DID watch that documentary too.

dude made chinatown guys come on

I'm not crazy about his peccadilloes, but on the legal facts this is BS.

http://board.mdc2.org/albums/screens/Screenshot-The%20Associated%20Press:%20Swiss%20arrest%20Polanski%20on%20US%20request%20in%20sex%20case%20-%20Chromium.png

wtf

http://board.mdc2.org/albums/screens/Screenshot-The%20Associated%20Press:%20Swiss%20arrest%20Polanski%20on%20US%20request%20in%20sex%20case%20-%20Chromium.png

lol AP

:-)))

Fuck this guy. I am trading him off of my team in Madden as soon as I get home.

He is OFF the team.

SHAME ON THE SWISS

"But it still seems utterly ridiculous to me for America to still claim his head on a platter."

He drugged and raped a girl. Apparently this wasn't the only incident. It's in a way ridiculous to still go after him but then a crime is a crime. If it were my daughter I'd probably have lynched him 29 years ago.

He drugged and raped a girl. Apparently this wasn't the only incident

BUT HE MADE CHINATWON

yeah I mean I like his movies too but what he did was against the law and he should serve some legal penalty for it.

it's pretty weird that Angelica Houston was there and was like, 'well she wasn't really like a 13 year old, she was like a 25 year old' ok cmon lady.

But I mean hey, it's been THREE DECADES.

the only reason it's been three decades is because he ran away. i think the main thing it illustrates is that becoming a fugitive is generally a bad idea. legal systems don't forgive and forget. what sentence was he looking at then? i think he'd have been better off to have served it.

i can't understand what joan z. shore is whining about. not like the swiss gov't had any choice anyway.

more like joan z. sure is stupid

some of y'all are cap'n save a pedo

New cap'n save a pedo legislation.

it's not his fault a 13-yr-old seduced him

Anjelica Houston is a nonce.