Archive for the Tag 'Roman Polanski'

THE GHOST WRITER – Reviewed by J.D.

Goodness, the British certainly do hate Tony Blair…
But, I’m getting ahead of myself.
There have been any number of political thrillers released in the last few years, the culmination of the ‘lost years’ of America, where the Bush administration, and its allies in England, have come in for a right kicking over [...]

0 comments Friday 06 Aug 2010 | blogadmin | blu-ray, drama, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers

REPULSION – Reviewed by A.I.

Other Voices, Other Rooms: Acoustic Design in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion (1965)
As the title sequence of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion suggests, with its violation of the human eye in closeup by thin striations of text, the film we are about to watch is one concerned with altered perceptions. Like the infamous razoring scene from Luis Buñuel’s surrealist [...]

0 comments Thursday 30 Jul 2009 | blogadmin | blu-ray, horror, movie reviews, recommendations, suspense/thrillers