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Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes-of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed...
CHINATOWN 1974; ROMAN POLANSKI...
...shark's: one night, one setting; bad guys outside, good and bad guys in; last one not to get blown up wins. It's your basic claustrophobic nightmare, which theater and cinema have astutely exploited--from Sartre's No Exit and nearly any Pinter play or Roman Polanski movie to the old cliff-hanger serials, where the four walls of a cell would close in on our hero. Anyone under pressure has felt this contraction: the frazzled mind cowering, shrinking, as reality ruthlessly applies the clamps...
...there's another kind of horror, a subtler, more seductive and lingering kind. "Whether it's Polanski's Repulsion or Rosemary's Baby or Kubrick's The Shining," says former Fox studio boss Bill Mechanic, "some of the best horror movies had a certain elegance to them." These films tell you that what you don't know or notice can hurt you. They are to the gore fests as romantic dramas are to porn. They are about mood, atmosphere, the notion that death is everywhere and inevitable...
...bring myself to see any of this crap crop last summer—after wasting ten bucks on The Matrix Reloaded, I confined my summer movie-watching to what I could get from Netflix and the local library; I got up to speed on Cronenberg and Polanski and saw a bunch of other classics that I hadn’t caught yet. The only ticket I bought for the rest of the summer was to see 28 Days Later (which I enjoyed a lot—I’m a sucker for evocative apocalypse movies...