Roman Polanski
1) Frantic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When the wife of an American cardiologist is kidnapped in Paris, he sets out to find her but encounters a web of language, locale, and bureaucracy.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1971, Roman Polanski spent a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempted to win the Monaco Grand Prix. Polanski was given intimate access to Stewart's world for three days, both on the track and off. Weekend of a Champion gives an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers. Includes follow-up perspective by both Stewart and Polanski.
3) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
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Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head when he takes on a case involving the richest and most powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, a trailer, and more.
4) Chinatown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A private detective, Jake Gittes, hired to investigate an adultery case, stumbles on the plot of a murder involving incest and the privatization of water through state and municipal corruption, land use and real estate. If he doesn't drop the case at once he faces threats of legal action, but he pursues it anyway, slowly uncovering a vast conspiracy.
A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job for a private detective mushrooms into a murderous scandal...
5) The pianist
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Series
Criterion collection volume 630
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
Based on Ira Levin's bestselling novel, Mia Farrow plays a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors and self-involved actor husband are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby.
7) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2014.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of several interconnected subjects like The Cannes Film Festival, cinema art, money, glamour and death. In May of 2012, a director and an actor worked their way through the Cannes Film Festival in a attempt to secure financing for a proposed film. As they dashed around, they filmed the hilarious and revealing proceedings.
9) Macbeth
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
A classic tragedy about the lust for power and its ultimate bloody consequences. Macbeth is a Scottish war hero whose insane ambition unleashes a cycle of violence. Prompted by the supernatural prophecy of three witches, Macbeth is then goaded by his lady into slaying King Duncan in order to assume the throne. He plunges further into murder and moral decay to keep the unsteady crown on his head.
10) Tess
Series
Criterion collection volume 697
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.