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Deadwood HBO-izes this material, though, not just in its profanity but in its moral ambiguity and social criticism. The show is like McCabe for more reasons than that it involves whorehouses and business conflicts. Like the '70s movies of Altman, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and others, HBO's dramas rework popcorny genre formats (the cop drama, the Mob flick) with dark, even cynical themes: that institutions are corrupt, that people and systems and families will screw you over, that heroes are never entirely heroic or villains alone in their villainy. Deadwood wants to show not just...
...CHUNG: Of course you can’t “see it happening this year,” Ben. Isn’t that the point of why we watch the Oscars in the first place? Nobody went into last year’s awards thinking Roman Polanski or Adrien Brody had a chance at winning their awards; both were nominated in categories that became two-way races (Rob Marshall and Martin Scorcese for Director, Jack Nicholson and Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor) of which neither was considered a viable contender. Their richly deserved triumphs for their work...
...Short: Rossellini, Godard, Truffaut, Clair, Polanski, Lester...
From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
...Playboy After Dark.? Books: Playboy Press published collections from the magazine and original material like Lenny Bruce?s ?How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.? Nightclub-restaurants: Playboy Clubs soon straddled the globe and franchised his centerfold Playmates into real live (but clothed) Bunnies. Movies: Playboy Productions financed Roman Polanski?s ?Macbeth? and Monty Python?s ?And Now for Something Completely Different,? and Hefner negotiated with screenwriter George Axelrod to make a movie of his life, called ?Playboy...