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Berlinale announces first titles

15 December 2009 10:33 AM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Berlinale has unleashed the first few titles from its 2010 line-up. The recently announced titles aren’t anything to write home about but I’m sure we’ll be seeing a few more announcements (including some titles we can get excited about) over the next few weeks.

First titles after the break.

Bal (Honey) Turkey / Germany

by Semih Kaplanoglu (Süt/Milk, Yumurta/Egg, Melegin Düsüsü/Angel’s Fall)

with Bora Altas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tülin Özen, Alev Ucarer, Ayse Altay

World premiere

Der Räuber (The Robber) Austria / Germany

by Benjamin Heisenberg (Sleeper, Max-Ophuels-Preis 2006)

with Andreas Lust, Franziska Weisz

World premiere

My Name Is Khan India

by Karan Johar

with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol

Out of competition

Na Putu (On the Path) Bosnia and Herzegovina / Austria / Germany / Croatia

by Jasmila Zbanic (Grbavica, Golden Bear 2006)

with Zrinka Cvitesic (Shooting Star 2010), Leon Lucev, Ermin Bravo, Mirjana Karanovic

World premiere

Shekarchi (The Hunter) Germany / Iran

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Full of the strange

5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

In September Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland. He faces extradition to the Us, having fled the States in 1978 to avoid being sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. The debate about the case has raged ever since. Martin Amis was the first writer to interview Polanski after his flight, meeting him in Paris in 1979 for a magazine article. Here, we publish the encounter in full

When I was being driven to the police station from the hotel, the car radio was already talking about it. The newsmen were calling the police before I was arrested to see whether they can break the news. I couldn't believe… I thought, you know, I was going to wake up from it. I realise, if I have killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. »

- Martin Amis

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Repulsion (DVD Review)

29 July 2009 12:02 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Roman Polanski’s second feature film, Repulsion (1965), is considered a classic of the slow-burn, first-person psychological-study genre. Just out on a special-edition DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, it messily observes and records the unraveling of the sanity of an unbalanced young woman (played by an especially delicate Catherine Deneuve) when she’s left home alone for the weekend by her older sister.

That’s really it for plot, folks; this is more of a non-narrative character study than a densely plotted thriller. But if you hook up with the film’s wavelength, settle in with it and allow the flow of images to lead you along, you’ll find yourself taking an interesting and disturbing journey.

The movie is expertly photographed by Gil Taylor (who would reunite with Polanski a year later on Cul-de-sac), who imbues the first half of the movie with a rather natural look. But once the long, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Scooter McCrae)

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Oh snap! Criterion to release Polanski's psycho-sexual thriller Repulsion

18 April 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

As I'm currently going through somewhat of an obsession with early Polanski right now this news couldn't have come at a better time. His 1965 film, Repulsion, starring Catherine Deneuve has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it as teenager on late night tv. It was totally confusing at the time but completely mesmerizing. Of course now that I'm a little more worldly I think I understand its not so subtle subtext more and can better appreciate it as a slow-burning psychological thriller that shows immense restraint from the young director.

rumor is that Criterion doesn't plan on stopping here either. I've heard from various sources of some repute that they also plan on releasing Cul-De-Sac which would bring my early Polanski collection to a close.

Repulsion is being released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, 2009. Full list of special features after the break.

Special Features:

* New, restored »

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The Court of Public Opinion -- Dellamorte reviews Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired on DVD

2 February 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Roman Polanski has directed at least four out and out masterpieces: Rosemary’s Baby, Knife in the Water, Chinatown and The Pianist. To say nothing of Bitter Moon, Cul-de-sac, Repulsion, MacBeth, and The Tenant. Or even the solid but unspectacular films like Death and the Madien or Frantic. But as the old joke goes, you sodomize one drugged up thirteen-year-old, and that how people think of you. That may sound flippant, but in the court of public opinion that is all Polanski is. A dirty European who fled from justice and has lived abroad in sin ever since. There is no defending what Polanski did, but if you watch the engrossing documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, you will hear some sideways defenses. One person suggest that as Roman is from a European culture, and that sleeping with an underage girl is not all that unusual »

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