Assignment 9: This is Atrocious
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
What makes a horrible film?
So, this is Austin Cinephile, a place for the collection [...]
THE GHOST WRITER (2010) will haunt you for days
Dir. Roman Polanski
Alamo South Lamar, 3/07/10, 12:30pm
In my review for Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist, I mentioned Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby and its strong influence on the Von Trier film. Now it’s time to refer to another Polanski masterpiece, Chinatown, with regard to another new classic, this time Polanski’s own latest effort The Ghost Writer. [...]
