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.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I tend to look at the results of this poll as such:
Apartment Trilogy: 19 votesChinatown: 13
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:50 (fifteen years ago) link
(and a film moreover with a FAR more interesting take on sexuality, especially the contradictory and spry sexuality of its still-glacial star)
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
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.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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 - ???
― StanM, Sunday, 27 September 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
lol pwned
― a light salad of Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida and Esteban Buttez (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 September 2009 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I hear that Osama bin Laden is going to win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival next year.
― a light salad of Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida and Esteban Buttez (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 September 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
SUCKA
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 27 September 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Doubt he was the sucka, Alex
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 27 September 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-z-shore/polanskis-arrest-shame-on_b_301134.html
o_O
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XTuc6i1Uo
― omar little, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
the age of consent was 14?? the fuck?
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, blaming the victim and whitewashing the fact that she was 13 ("almost 14")is some bullshit.
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― truth bomber ginsburg (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
When did he serve his time?
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, right. And I DID watch that documentary too.
― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
dude made chinatown guys come on
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not crazy about his peccadilloes, but on the legal facts this is BS.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://board.mdc2.org/albums/screens/Screenshot-The%20Associated%20Press:%20Swiss%20arrest%20Polanski%20on%20US%20request%20in%20sex%20case%20-%20Chromium.png
― am0n, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― am0n, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
lol AP
― am0n, Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
:-)))
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuck this guy. I am trading him off of my team in Madden as soon as I get home.
― Cousin Larry Soetoro (jeff), Sunday, 27 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
He is OFF the team.
SHAME ON THE SWISS
― am0n, Sunday, 27 September 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"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.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
He drugged and raped a girl. Apparently this wasn't the only incident
BUT HE MADE CHINATWON
― Super Cub, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 27 September 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't understand what joan z. shore is whining about. not like the swiss gov't had any choice anyway.
― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
more like joan z. sure is stupid
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
some of y'all are cap'n save a pedo
― a light salad of Adorno, Heidegger, Derrida and Esteban Buttez (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
New cap'n save a pedo legislation.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it's not his fault a 13-yr-old seduced him
― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Anjelica Houston is a nonce.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i love how that huffington poster's indictment of the swiss is: laundering nazi gold, denying women the vote, serving a warrant on a statutory rapist.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
what sentence was he looking at then? i think he'd have been better off to have served it
According to BBC website:
"He was initially indicted on six counts and faced up to life in prison."
Not entirely surprised he skipped the country on that basis, but as you say the justice system has a long memory.
― Bill A, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
dude should have resurrected his drag look from The Tenant to escape detection
http://www.pop-pervert.com/files/men_as_women-06.jpg
― velko, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
if the americans wanted to arrest him,they could have done it many times on the past decades.Polanski didnt hide while being all over the world.thats why the swiss are weird about it. my guess is that this arrest story will end as fast as it begun,cause right or wrong - no one seems to give a fuck about that case.
― Zeno, Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link