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

So is it true said girl from back then doesn't want to see the case being re-opened? Heard this on the radio today.

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, September 28, 2009 5:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also did you know he directed 'cul de sac'. not one of his best, but just saying.

let the law take care of it

so you're in favor of extradition now?

table you sure are spending a lot of words to communicate that you have nothing to say about this matter

i don't think the guy should go to jail necessarily. i just think the case should be resolved, which clearly it isn't because he illegally fled the country and pointedly avoided capture for over 20 years. i'm arguing against the idea that the length of time means that it's not worth pursuing or that any iota of pity should be felt for this man because of the holocaust or because he was forced to live in france (the horror!) and switzerland (*clutches heart*) or anything like that.

she was fucking a celebrity director, let the law take care of it, worry about yourself. what'll happen will.

i mean this just seems totally cut & dry to me. he's a fugitive, extremely little resources were used to capture him & now he has to face a judge to tie-up a case that he ran away from for whatever reason. i honestly don't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

i think the whole of ilx should be deleted and whenever you visit "ilxor.com" it's just a permanent yellow card that says "worry about yourself"

maybe there could be a rolling wdyll thread where you can post your own photo but can't see that of anyone else

How right-wing of you, J0rdan.

Opposition to anal rape is a hallmark of conservatism.

All rape is anal rape is a hallmark of conservatism.

How the hell does someone forget seeing Repulsion?

― EDB, Monday, 28 September 2009 03:01 (15 hours ago) Bookmark

it's kinda not very good and i say that as a man who cannot look at catherine deneuve without combusting internally a little

also, fantastic thread, i lolled

The French culture and communications minister, Frederic Mitterrand, said he "learned with astonishment" of Polanski's arrest. He expressed solidarity with Polanski's family and said "he wants to remind everyone that Roman Polanski benefits from great general esteem" and has "exceptional artistic creation and human qualities."

Investigators in the United States say Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in the 1970s. Polanski pleaded guilty in 1977 to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but he fled the United States before he could be sentenced and settled in France.

U.S. authorities have had a warrant for his arrest since 1978. Police in Switzerland arrested Polanski on that warrant Saturday after the 76-year-old tried to enter Switzerland to attend the Zurich Film Festival, which is holding a tribute to Polanski this year.

Filmmakers have reacted with outrage at the arrest.

"As a Swiss filmmaker, I feel deeply ashamed," Christian Frei said.

"He's a brilliant guy, and he made a little mistake 32 years ago. What a shame for Switzerland," said photographer Otto Weisser, a friend of Polanski.

The Polish Filmmakers Association posted a letter on its Web site Monday from the European Film Academy secretariat that protested "the arbitrary treatment of one of the world's most outstanding film directors."

The letter, which was read aloud at the festival, was signed by directors Wim Wenders, Volker Schloendorff and Bertrand Tavernier; actress Victoria Abril; cinematographer Peter Suschitzky; and screenwriter and actor Jean-Claude Carriere.

Mitterrand said he has spoken with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and that Sarkozy "shares his hope for a rapid resolution to the situation which would allow Roman Polanski to rejoin his family as quickly as possible."

Mitterrand said he "greatly regrets that Mr. Polanski has had yet another difficulty added to an already turbulent existence."

tube-ulent morelike

What a shame for Switzerland

it's kinda not very good and i say that as a man who cannot look at catherine deneuve without combusting internally a little

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters), Monday, September 28, 2009 1:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously close to a SB here

i really don't want to imagine what "combusting internally" means in this context, though i think i just did.

he made a little mistake 32 years ago

^ another right-wing nut

whoops, slipped and fell into the bum of another drugged teen

roman polanski, or pardon me but your little mistake is in my ass

i really don't want to imagine what "combusting internally" means in this context, though i think i just did.

― omar little, Monday, 28 September 2009 18:37 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

if *anyone* else had used this innocent if slightly grandiose metaphor for attraction, it would have passed without such comment

repulsion didn't really reach me. came across as a visually impressive but slight and conceptually unconvincing study of neurosis. the rotting rabbit carcass was effective. maybe if i see it again i'll appreciate its trip into unaccountable human darkness a little more enthusiastically

i think it is a pretty perfect movie. you weren't moved by the first and last shots?

it's been a while! i will have to see it again, as i say. first shot is a london cityscape, isn't it? like i say, visually it was very well-executed, so i wouldn't be surprised if some of the shots are stunning

obv he is (was) a vile person for doing what he did and deserves at the very least to have his name tarnished

don't complain lj, you received a free pass on this earlier exchange imo

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, April 16, 2009 6:50 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(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, April 16, 2009 6:55 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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, April 16, 2009 6:58 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

it's been a while! i will have to see it again, as i say. first shot is a london cityscape, isn't it? like i say, visually it was very well-executed, so i wouldn't be surprised if some of the shots are stunning

it's not. see it again. and it goes beyond some "stunning shots" to the very meaning of the movie.

i mean that's like saying an album has some "stunning chords"

well, some stunning melodies maybe

i think i'll be better equipped to appreciate it given what i've seen in the meantime...it's certainly a film i can imagine missing the point of

All this and now the hating on that movie?

What a disaster for Belle du Jour.

Fck, meant Repulsion! WHAT A DISASTER FOR REPULSION!

I didn't really appreciate repulsion until I had to write a paper on it

it's a movie that's more fun to pick apart than it is to watch imo

even if only for the lolfreud symbolism... rotting rabbit, get it?

the first glimpse of the rabbit was my favourite bit of the film...it practically made me jump...beautifully *done* even if the symbolism is a little obvious

even if only for the lolfreud symbolism... rotting rabbit, get it?

I am dum so um... no?

I thought Repulsion was okay but not a patch on my other favorites of his (chinatown, rosemary's baby, lolz Macbeth), but obviously I am missing something

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'lolz, enough!'

L.A. Times: Roman Polanski attorneys may have provoked arrest by complaining L.A. wasn't serious about arresting director

I'm glad they're not my lawyers

re: Repulsion, i believe i've talked elsewhere on this thread about a paper i once wrote on disembodiment and schizophrenia in Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, and The Tenant. with some mentions of other films of course...

watching the Tenant more than ten times in four days made me feel more than a little o_0

The Tenant is pretty damn funny.

At a press conference earlier today, the Zurich Film Festival jury wore red "Free Polanski" buttons and accused Switzerland of "philistine collusion" in arresting Polanski. "We hope today this latest order will be dropped [as] it is based on a three-decade-old case that is all but dead but for minor technicalities," said jury president Debra Winger. "We stand by and wait for his release and his next masterwork."

Festival de Cannes president Gilles Jacob, Italian star Monica Bellucci and directors Costa-Gavras, Wong Kar Wai and Bertrand Tavernier are among the signatures on a petition demanding Polanski's immediate release. Harvey Weinstein also lent his support to the cause ...

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/09/rally_round_1.php

Do they think they're defending Ezra Pound here?

i don't think it's funny. i thought and continue to think that it is quite a terrifying meditation on the Other, the fluidity of identity, and the death drive.

but what the fuck do i know right, i don't understand why all these douchebags are supporting him or why all these douchebags are adamant about this abstract sense of 'justice.'

lol alfred.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/index.html

well, the Other is very funny at parties, does snappy patter and impressions.

(rlly, I always roffle at the second leap.)

hey. it's not just me!

“A comedy tipped with poison . . .
perfect, typical Polanski.”– Jay Cocks, Time

http://www.filmforum.org/films/tenant.html

i watched repulsion alone in someone else's apartment, which it gave it that certain extra something

the tenant is hilarious

The Tenant is perfect proto-Lynch, wherein hilarity and horror cozily exist side-by-side.

as they always should.

(which is why Dario Argento... never mind)

Do they think they're defending Ezra Pound here?

― Little starbursts of joy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:59 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is hilarious.

why the fuck is ezra pound a more defensible – apparently *much* more defensible – figure than polanski?

seriously, what is it about pound, unbelievably tedious and fraudeulent before he became a fascist, that you like?

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

this is pretty hilarious