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

Yeah I'm thinking this is just the kind of one-off this season was for really (would zone out if it was on TV), also on a sat afternoon - might be what I need.

haven't seen it since i was 16 or 17 and gorgeous but slow as hell covers my memory of it. having said that i've a lot of time for slow as hell so

Yeah, I'm pretty sure my H.S. senior self would not have sat still for Bela Tarr.

But this felt dull more in a Out of Africa way.

i do think Polanski's maybe over-reverent of the source material and maybe there's a slight pointlessness to the way he beautifully films countryside which isn't Hardy countryside but i feel like i could mope my way thru this again quite happily, it's pretty dreamy iirc

yah it screened @ a college near me like a month ago. it's good but long + bleak; the end sequence @ stonehenge is dope

tess is great and the moment its resolution is revealed pretty lolsome

I've ended up seeing most of the bfi run thus far

pasolini retrospective mar/apr - is this any more appropriate?

lol

I'll er plead the 5th on this qn.

Pasolini is another director whose films, by and large, aren't that difficult to see on DVD etc, but again, prob worth catching some of them on the big screen (PIGSTY is a good'un)

Totally, while I love Pasolini more etc might be more interesting in the context of other Italian film at the time. No idea, but would good to screen a point of new POV to see his films through which was my point above.

Might catch one of the docs or a short film programme.

Noted women's studies expert Roman Polanski weighs in:

You might not suppose Roman Polanski and the 87-year-old Jerry Lewis had a great deal in common, but today the director followed Lewis' suggestion that broad comedy is inappropriate for women actors by complaining that aiming for female equality is "a great pity".

Speaking at the Cannes film festival of his latest film Venus in Fur, the 79-year-old Polanski said that "trying to level the genders is purely idiotic." "Offering flowers to a lady has become indecent … The pill has greatly changed the place of women in our times, masculinising her. It chases away the romance in our lives."

I can see how he could still be a film-maker of merit, but why anyone would credit his opinions on women to be worth printing is entirely beyond me.

Guess Mia Farrow really was the auteur behind Rosemary's Baby after all.

yeah, that's creepy stuff. rosemary's baby is still one of the best movies ever though, and i am down with attributing that as much to mia farrow as to polanski.

Love that those statements came from the guy whose finest moment in cinema came from dressing himself up in drag and announcing, to the camera: "I think I'm pregnant."

9th gate has been on showtime constantly lately. The scene with the old woman collector in Italy on the hoveround is creepy

Millennials and their PC shit about stoopid thingz artists say really on overload this week

Cool post.

If Dennis Perrin had responded to it with a painfully unfunny tweet you probs would have thought it cool.

Also anyone who uses "PC" unironically is a cunt, perhaps you didn't get the memo?

Or perhaps you did, I don't know.

Millennials and their PC shit about stoopid thingz artists say really on overload this week

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius

you meant to say "Generation X," right?

The PC APB MIA from Morbs' PO.

Also anyone who uses "PC" unironically is a cunt

That's rather sexist, you malodorous twat.

you meant to say "Generation X," right?

i dunno, which does that dummy Rich Juzw1ak belong to?

I'm missing the connection here.

That's rather sexist, you malodorous twat.

Oh I forgot, you're a comedian.

lol "PC"

Roman Polan-C

PC now apparently defined as considering the opinions of a statutory rapist on a woman's reproductive rights beneath contempt. Okay, well, ya got me! Guilty as charged!! [flees to Europe]

basically film-festival "journalists" now play Gotcha Grandpa with every asshole auteur over 75.

Eric:

http://gawker.com/shut-the-fuck-up-already-jerry-lewis-509518070

Before you judge, wait til you read his thoughts on Mariah Carey.

And critics/journalists/bloggers have been dumping on aged auteurs' late-period efforts since the beginning of time and there's no reason to think that's ever going to change. And I use "efforts" generously for a man who hasn't directed a movie in 30 years.

And Jerry Lewis IS an asshole!

Or you wouldn't like him.

why can't broads do broad comedy?

Why does only he who slaps dick dig slapstick?

I'm a fan of all sorts of assholes, Lewis, Bob Hope, and Prince included.

(a good followup to Lewis wd be to ask him where his films woulda been w/out Kathleen Freeman et al)

Or even this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5MpO9grPpk

Which was maybe already posted on the Jer thread. I can't remember.

polanskicoccygeus

The new looks really interesting, was reading about it this morning.

If anyone's willing to drive me to the reservoir and stick a rubber knife in my nostril, i'd be game

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/06/the_ultimate_chinatown_filming_location_map_of_los_angeles.php

Sure.

rubber

Oh, no deal.

tsk tsk

Gould's apt in The Long Goodbye is a lot closer to my hotel

yer too tall to wield that switchblade anyway, kittycat.

if you haven't seen Macbeth yet, get on it

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3303-macbeth-something-wicked

Dooooooope.

Venus in Fur is pretty good if familiar. Maybe the best part he's given his spouse.

Beware, lots of "opinions on women" implicit in it.