Roman Polanski

‘The Tenant’ (1976) the weakest, but also wildest, of Polanski’s Apartment Trilogy

“Repulsion” (1965) has aged incredibly well, a modern-seeming story of a woman’s troubled mind. “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), though slow by today’s standards, is a classic

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‘Chinatown’ (1974) links two eras of film noir

Jack Nicholson was too young for the first wave of noir, but luck would have it that he was in his prime for Seventies neo-noir.

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‘Repulsion’ (1965) provides searing peek into a troubled autistic woman

If “Repulsion” (1965) were remade today, it couldn’t be a more searing, insightful look into one autistic woman’s experience in a neurotypical world than what

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‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968) is horror by gaslight

The term wasn’t popularized at the time, but “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) is a master class in gaslighting. In her sympathetic breakthrough role, Mia Farrow’s title

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