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...Polanski gained international attention, and a TIME cover, with Knife in the Water, which trapped two men and a woman on a small boat to play out their sexual rivalries. In the 1965 Repulsion he locked young Catherine Deneuve in a London flat and let her go picturesquely berserk. Hollywood called, with Rosemary's Baby (1968), which imprisoned the pregnant Mia Farrow in a Manhattan condo to be preyed on by Satanists. By the end of the decade, and ever since, "Polanskian" could have been as evocative a summary of a director's nightmare world as "Hitchcockian." (See the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost Writer: Polanski Escapes into His Cinema Nightmares | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...don’t know if this Crimson team is destined for Hollywood. All I know is, I…I Believe…I Believe That…I Believe That We?...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teams Ready For Ivy Rumble | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...thoughtful movies about tough guys, and things blowing up. She's known for her adrenaline-pumped action sequences in films like the vampire western Near Dark (1987) and the surfer-heist cult classic Point Break (1991); the subtitle of the Directors' Cuts volume of film criticism about her is "Hollywood Transgressor." With The Hurt Locker, she's transgressed her way right to the threshold of the industry's highest honor. Breaking the Oscars' glass ceiling after a career of original, uncompromising films would make the history-making that much more fun. (See the 100 best movies of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Bigelow: The Front Runner | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Bigelow: The Front Runner | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...Hollywood took a hint from Hallmark—if you call your movie “Valentine’s Day,” people are going to happily fork over cash to see it, no matter how forgettable...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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