Woody Allen's Manhattan definitely has one of them. Welles's Touch of Evil and Hitchcock's Rear Window also. What nominations can you add?
share2001. Hands down.
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Since Touch Of Evil is mentioned, The Player should also get its due (TOE is verbally referenced during Altman's own 8+ minute long uninterrupted opening take). And Rosemary's Baby calls to mind another great Polanski opening in The Tenant where the crane camera is gently gliding around the courtyard to the tune of Philippe Sarde's wonderful main theme.
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The Player should also get its due
The Tenant
Brilliant. What a divine though today utterly neglected film. Well, Polanski is among the greatest filmmakers of all time IMO, and everything he's done is heads above the popular fluff vaunted today. If he ever did a comic book movie, I think I'd shoot myself.
Religion is like a rocking chair -- a lot of work to get nowhere.
I certainly share your admiration of Polanski. As for comic book films though, I wouldn't be so trigger happy - David Cronenberg once happened to make one of those - A History Of Violence - and the results were quite abundantly worthwhile as far as I'm concerned at least... So, likewise, I think if Polanski were to ever tackle material of that sort, I'm sure he'd be able to transform & transcend it (and he's no stranger to somewhat fluffy source material, anyway - what's with the enjoyable yet lightweight The Ninth Gate?). But, of course, the dude is 80 years old already, so that'll hardly come to pass.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
A History Of Violence
This comes from a comic book? Seriously? Tell me more.
what's with the enjoyable yet lightweight The Ninth Gate?
Well, TNG is mother's milk to Polanski, don't you think? A film I truly love, BTW. But then, I can't think of a Polanski film I've seen (I haven't seen Pirates) that I didn't scarf up avidly.
Religion is like a rocking chair -- a lot of work to get nowhere.
"Well, TNG is mother's milk to Polanski, don't you think?"
TNG certainly provided an appropriate avenue for his dark sense of humor as well as the outright sinister impulses... and considering how entertaining & well paced the film is, with all that atmospheric location shooting in Portugal & France, I find the critical derision it was met with, somewhat hard to understand.
"I haven't seen Pirates".
It's more like dull than bad - a pity because Walther Matthau makes for such an amusingly crass and vile pirate. As for Polanski's misfires... I absolutely cannot stand What? and ain't too crazy about Cul-De-Sac or Carnage, either. Other than, I don't have complaints, even though by my reckoning his last masterpiece dates back to 1979 and Tess. Never seen Oliver Twist.
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I totally agree, Rhapsody in blue, the city, the monologue, it's sublime
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