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 any number [...]
Read More blu-ray, drama, DVD, Ewan McGregor, J.D., Kim Cattrall, Mystery, Olivia Williams, PG-13, Pierce Brosnan, Roman Polanski, The Ghost Writer, thriller, Tony BlairOther 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 [...]
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