Carnage Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Roman Polanski (screenplay), Yasmina Reza (play) 2011, France Carnage is a lean story about a group of people who cannot leave an apartment. Sometimes they manage to go into an alternate room, even as far as getting into an elevator, but somehow each person is pulled together again. …
Carnage Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Roman Polansi 2011, France The inciting incident of Carnage involves two preadolescent boys having a disagreement in a public park. Their tiff escalates until one of them strikes the other in the face with a stick. The majority of the film then focuses on the parents of …
Carnage Directed by Roman Polanski Written by Roman Polanski (screenplay), Yasmina Reza (play) 2011, USA Today proved to be the most populous screening at the Lincoln Center yet, and I should have known better. As the Q&A for Miss Bala came to an end, a rush of press got up and headed for the exit. …
2011 marks many firsts for Sound On Sight. One of those new yearly highlights is coverage on the Telluride Film Festival. Site editor and host of the Sound On Sight podcast, Simon Howell is currently in Colorado all set to attend the festival for the very first time. Back in April, he applied to be …
This year’s New York Film Festival is shaping up to be a strong one at that. Recently My Week with Marilyn, directed by Simon Curtis, has announced it’s world premier at the festival on October 9th as the Centerpiece at Alice Tully Hall. Added to the list are the highly anticipated films, A Dangerous Method …
Hot on the heels of the release of the first wave of films announced to screen at the Toronto Film Festival, comes the main lineup for the 68th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10. There are a few highly anticipated films that appear here that are not yet scheduled for …
This past Sunday acclaimed Polish Film-maker, Roman Polanski made his first official statement since his arrest in Switzerland in September of last year. In the 900 word statement he said: “he can remain silent no longer” over his still-unresolved rape case. Polanski was officially charged in 1977, in Los Angeles for the sexual assault of …
Repulsion (1965) Dir. Roman Polanski United Kingdom – 105 minutes, B&W Criterion Spine # 483 Warning: Here be spoilers. Like flies to the gooping carcass of a skinned rabbit, Repulsion invites a lot of intellectual psychobabbling that usually amounts to the same things being said by different people. We can all pretty much agree what …
Roman Polanski, Polish filmmaker, could very well be released from Swiss jail after more than a thirty yearlong court battle. In 1977 Polanski was accused of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl he was doing a photo shoot with. The shoot took place in Jack Nicholson’s house, and was Polanski’s second with the girl. …
Legenday film maker Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on an international warrant as he arrived in Zurich for a film festival featuring a retrospective of his work. Festival organizers had planned to present Polanski with a lifetime achievement award, but now he is being detained with the possibility of extradition to the United States. …