From 5 November, Palace Cinemas, in association with Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), will present a touring film season dedicated to director Roman Polanski. Starting in Melbourne’s 5 November (at ACMI), the season will travel to Palace Electric Canberra, Chauvel Cinema Sydney, and Palace Centro Brisbane, screening through to 7 December.
“Lauded by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as ‘one of the great modern masters of the cinema’ Roman Polanski has over the course of five decades refined a formal film language and expressed a mordantly ironic worldview in genre-defining films that are provocative, compelling and inventive,” ACMI Film Programmer and curator of the season, Roberta Ciabarra commented.
Ciabarra explained that the ROMAN: 10 X Polanski film season will show ten key films drawn from the director’s Polish New Wave debut, Knife in the Water to his 2010 political thriller, The Ghost Writer, by way of the director’s British films of the ‘60s, New Hollywood classics Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown and Paris-set thrillers The Tenant, Frantic and Bitter Moon. Marina Zenovich’s feature-length documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, will screen alongside the program’s ten selected features directed by Polanski.
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