[lbo-talk] Polanski

[Andy]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:52 PM, SA wrote:
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>> Wait! I still don't think we've fully established whether Polanski is a
>> *rich* white guy or a rich *white* guy. Let the debate continue.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing how great an artist he really was/is, actually.
> I saw Knife in the Water on TV when I was a teenager, I think, and kinda
> liked it. But that was long ago. I liked Chinatown, too, but that was long
> ago, if not quite so long ago. I barely remember Rosemary's Baby. So you
> cinephiles, waddya think?

Based on Rosemary's Baby and Ninth Gate, he knows how to make a decent
suggestive horror film, but great artist?  <shrug>  It's not hard to
think of others more compelling.

So let's cut off his balls.

-- 
Andy