The Tenant

...it was as if I'd seen the Virgin Mary." Fired by enthusiasm for the craft, he worked as assistant editor on Roman Polanski's 1976 film The Tenant. While he didn't get to talk to Polanski much, he learnt one thing from the experience: "Fear -...

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I realize it's only a movie but, no. Living there seemed tantamount to beginning my new life in Roman Polanski's digs from The Tenant. That's how powerful the picture is -- it just gets under your skin and into your bones and bubbles...

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...is the kind we can never escape because it's the kind that lives not in reality, but in our heads. And in Polanski pictures like The Tenant (1976), it's everywhere. Still not sure? Go out and rent Polanski's first feature film, Knife in the...

In this article: Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Michael Haneke, Catherine Deneuve, The Pianist, Chinatown, Huffington Post, Netflix, and Repulsion

...Few directors have laid bare their inner fantasies and fears like Polanski in films which have included "Repulsion," "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Tenant" -- films of disturbing brutality shot through with voyeurism and dark humor. * In 1974,...

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...() is a 1976 psychological thriller/horror film directed by Roman Polanski based upon the 1964 novel Le locataire chimerique by Roland Topor. It is also known under the French title Le Locataire. It co-stars actress Isabelle Adjani. It is the...

In this article: Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Suicide, Cannes Film Festival, Repulsion, Roland Topor, and Isabelle Adjani

...his lawyer is a moron. It could happen too! You never know. The black-and-white photo of Polanski is a PR photo from 1976's 'The Tenant'. Additional photo of Polanski at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 20. Also, Polanski's wife...

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...human condition from a director who has generated "Knife in the Water" (1962), "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "The Tenant" (1976). So what is "The Pianist" saying about moral behavior and the role of the artist in society?

In this article: Roman Polanski, The Pianist, Chinatown, Clive James, Jack Nicholson, Docket, Warsaw Uprising, and The Tragedy of Macbeth

...about Poland and its subservience to the Soviet Union. Polanski insists that films should be like the places they are based in. So The Tenant had to be French and Chinatown totally American. And when you see those films, you can smell the...

In this article: Roman Polanski, John Huston, Chinatown, Poland, Rosemary's Baby, Knife in the Water, Adolf Hitler, and Soviet Union

...of extra-legal, invading or supernatural forces conspiring to wreck havoc on unsuspecting victims. Frantic, The Pianist, Cul-de-sac, The Tenant and The Ninth Gate fall into this category, as does the devious way the U.S. and Swiss police...

In this article: Roman Polanski, The Ninth Gate, Cannes Film Festival, The Club Dumas, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, California, and Arturo Perez-Reverte

...Polanski is that. He has made some astonishingly good films over the years, films that rank among my personal favourites: Repulsion, The Tenant, Macbeth, Tess, Frantic. Hell, I even liked Bitter Moon. But does being a brilliant artist...

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