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

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

"No one does it to you like Roman Polanski."

Whoopi on Polanski: It wasn't rape-rape

Though nice try Whoopi with the "Europeans have sex with children all the time!" argument, or whatever that was

Uh...

tbh, reading reports of the french reaction to this, i can see why she'd think that.

Though nice try Whoopi with the "Europeans have sex with children all the time!" argument, or whatever that was

When in Rome...

...nope, give up.

When in Alabama...

Christ almighty, Whoopi. I like his movies, too, but wtf are you on about? I don't believe in hell, so I think the man should at least die in prison.

SNL seriously needs to get Tracy Morgan to come back and cameo for a parody of that conversation. serious lolz at "allegedly"

Has the victim been quoted anywhere?

Ah yes, here in the NY Times: "The victim in the case, Samantha Geimer, has long publicly identified herself and expressed forgiveness of Mr. Polanski."

That's kind of all I need to know.

Oh is it now.

Oh the man should at least die in prison now.

American prison would be preferable, for my vengeful purposes.

What do you care?

Oh fuck you.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib1.html

Has the victim been quoted anywhere?

Ah yes, here in the NY Times: "The victim in the case, Samantha Geimer, has long publicly identified herself and expressed forgiveness of Mr. Polanski."

That's kind of all I need to know.

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:03 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!

http://arthive.scrippscollege.edu/2007_2008/ART_142/YOU_WILL-SP08/KSTATES/morbo.gif

xp You're right, I suppose. It's not my daughter. But Jesus Christ almighty. Does everyone understand what it is that he plead guilty to?

diiiiiiiiee

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/la-oe-samantha-geimer23-2003feb23,0,4716430.story

Thanks for that Ward, hadn't ever seen that!

Isn't there another Polanski thread out there to do this on? I started this one in celebration of his movies.

Bit late now, isn't it? Anyway this always comes to mind when I think of RP anyway

I am aware that the victim forgives him, kind of, but she also makes it clear that she would mainly rather not be interviewed about it anymore. And I am aware that his trial was a botched mess of OJ proportions. But what he did, AND PLEAD GUILTY TO, would be rape no matter the girl's age, is rape now, and is totally totally inexcusable under any circumstance and in any culture. It's uglier than sin. It's uglier than Miles Davis wearing plaid. It's very very fucking ugly.

Yes and arresting him now will do what, drama queen

Put him in prison.

... at least put him in a cell with Phil Spector

it makes sense that she'd want to put it behind her.

the weird thing is that the people who are up in arms about this are often disputing that what he did was a crime.

the court case was a complete mess. i have no idea why he was offered such a lenient deal. but skipping bail is also illegal, and surely polanski, who could have afforded the best justice money can buy, didn't really have to fear a fifty-year stretch? he probably should have thought about the possibility of serving time before raping a 13-year-old though.

he probably should have thought about the possibility of serving time before raping a 13-year-old though.

I imagine plenty of others in Hollywood have gotten away with it

...if it wasn't for meddling with kids

MMM SAUSAGES

threads like this are so revealing

I imagine plenty of others in Hollywood have gotten away with it

http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cooverfamily/pg67.jpg