Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frantic isn't so bad either. As a matter of fact, it more nearly matches that critical cliche than most of the other movies on which the term is carelessly slapped. One can easily imagine Old Master Slyboots going for Roman Polanski's basic premise...
...audience can see her exit as he cannot, and there is something distinctly odd, bad-dreamy about her movement out of frame and, as it happens, out of the normality that Polanski so nicely states in his film's early passages. There is something very human about her husband's -- everybody's -- refusal to admit at first that something unusual must have happened. How desperately we cling to the belief that orderliness is immutable...
...also her character that causes the picture's problems. Polanski and Co-Writer Gerard Brach start by doing too little with her and end by doing too much. They might have exploited the comic possibilities of her dazy nature a little more, especially as the villains grow overtly menacing in their attempts to reclaim their lost luggage. That, though, is a forgivable flaw. The story, too, is busy with other demands that include, refreshingly, a desire to balance the demand for suspense against the need for plausibility. The principals are never tested by situations that require daring or skills beyond...
...Cinema: The Movies and Modern Architecture" (with the Boston Architectural Center). In his diverse approach to programming, focusing on local as well as established talent, obscure as well as acclaimed films, Kleiler clearly offers some bit of funkiness for all tastes, from Astaire and Rogers to Cocteau, Polanski and Zedd...
...jury did like The Mission. To Tarkovsky's defenders, though, it seemed a demonstration that in Cannes 1986 as in Peru 1755, materialists could still defeat champions of the spirit. Even in the movie business, reality is ever intervening. Throughout the festival, the $6 million ship built for Roman Polanski's Pirates stood gallantly in the Cannes harbor, a toy boat of CinemaScope dimensions. On the day after the festival ended, it was joined by a bigger ship: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America from the Sixth Fleet, fresh from its raid on Libya. The circus has left town, and real...