If we think of Roman Polanski's pieces, Nóz w wodzie (1962)is more important, Repulsion (1965)is in my opinion almost the best movie ever made, Rosemary's baby (1968)is more horrifying and Le Locataire (1976) is more interesting, not to talk about Chinatown (1974) etc. A wounded criminal and his dying partner take up refuge at a beachfront villa, which (not surprisingly) makes the owners less than thrilled. The two share a rather bizarre passive, aggressive relationship that quickly disintegrates when interrupted by the strangers. A good thing about the acting is that the people in this film were pretending to be other people and that's why they had two names in the credits; you see one is their real name and one is their character name. My favorite sequence is a prolonged drunken beach trip where gangster Dicky thinks he's being rescued by a plane. I've only recently been able to acquire a copy of this fascinating story which seems to combine Harold Pinter with Woody Allen. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856, mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies, TSPDT THE 1,000 GREATEST FILMS (2020 Edition), 2,500 + Noteworthy Movies on Amazon Prime, ️Déjà Vu : A Chronological History of French Cinema Since Time Began - Une vitrine chronologique du cinéma français depuis la nuit des temps. Chickens at life. A list of Edgar Wright's favorite 1000 Movies per his list on Mubi on July 27th, 2016. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856 mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies. Cul-de-Sac. Even his recent stuff is so good (I'm talking especially about Carnage). More details at There’s a direct line between the “island” of Cul-de-sac and the intense seclusion of later Polanski thrillers like Death And The Maiden and The Ghost Writer, and the new disc makes it possible to see where those seeds were planted. Lionel Stander was born to play Dickie and Jackie Bissett has a nice cameo role.
IMDb
Two Gangsters and an Island (1080i/60, 23 min) — Produced in 2003 by Blue Underground, the short making-of doc is an amusing piece about casting, the story, aspirations and the production in general. After a botched robbery two felons by the names of "Richard" (Lionel Standler) and "Albie" (Jack MacGowran) escape by car to an isolated castle on the island of Lindisfame in Northumberland, England. I guess Polanski is a human director, after all! A very irritating movie, overall, due to the characters.
Roman Polanski and his screenwriter in this film, Gerard Brach, were said to be enamored of theater of the absurd during their sojourn in Paris in the mid-60s, and wished to make a cinematic version of the then prevailing absurdist drama. Axmaker, S. // Video Librarian;Nov/Dec2011, Vol. Cul-de-Sac. An interesting approach, but the characters weren't so much. The cymbals were that man's hatred of stuff is not thingy and shit. It is real cinema.".
Eventually a even more bizarre bonding develops between the couple and Stander, one of the gangsters. Financial support was also difficult to find in England but their success with Repulsion (1965), a psychological-horror film, made financing available for Cul-De-Sac, which was the film they wanted to make all along.
It starts off well enough with a solid opening act that had quite a few laughs, mostly thanks to Pleasance, but after a while it began to wear thin. He's one of the most brilliant at it, at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey just like the chamber pieces Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden. This is all very well, but the film works the audience far too hard. TMDb What a mix! Also included is a half-hour TV interview of Polanski produced shortly after Fearless Vampire Killers, as well as two trailers. Report this film, "Now is the winter of our disco tent"-Britney Shakespears, This is the best film ever since the last one I liked. The first we see of Teresa is her lying topless on top of a…, They went artsy after Repulsion success, I think.
If we think of Roman Polanski's pieces, Nóz w wodzie (1962)is more important, Repulsion (1965)is in my opinion almost the best movie ever made, Rosemary's baby (1968)is more horrifying and Le Locataire (1976) is more interesting, not to talk about Chinatown (1974) etc. A wounded criminal and his dying partner take up refuge at a beachfront villa, which (not surprisingly) makes the owners less than thrilled. The two share a rather bizarre passive, aggressive relationship that quickly disintegrates when interrupted by the strangers. A good thing about the acting is that the people in this film were pretending to be other people and that's why they had two names in the credits; you see one is their real name and one is their character name. My favorite sequence is a prolonged drunken beach trip where gangster Dicky thinks he's being rescued by a plane. I've only recently been able to acquire a copy of this fascinating story which seems to combine Harold Pinter with Woody Allen. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856, mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies, TSPDT THE 1,000 GREATEST FILMS (2020 Edition), 2,500 + Noteworthy Movies on Amazon Prime, ️Déjà Vu : A Chronological History of French Cinema Since Time Began - Une vitrine chronologique du cinéma français depuis la nuit des temps. Chickens at life. A list of Edgar Wright's favorite 1000 Movies per his list on Mubi on July 27th, 2016. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856 mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies. Cul-de-Sac. Even his recent stuff is so good (I'm talking especially about Carnage). More details at There’s a direct line between the “island” of Cul-de-sac and the intense seclusion of later Polanski thrillers like Death And The Maiden and The Ghost Writer, and the new disc makes it possible to see where those seeds were planted. Lionel Stander was born to play Dickie and Jackie Bissett has a nice cameo role.
IMDb
Two Gangsters and an Island (1080i/60, 23 min) — Produced in 2003 by Blue Underground, the short making-of doc is an amusing piece about casting, the story, aspirations and the production in general. After a botched robbery two felons by the names of "Richard" (Lionel Standler) and "Albie" (Jack MacGowran) escape by car to an isolated castle on the island of Lindisfame in Northumberland, England. I guess Polanski is a human director, after all! A very irritating movie, overall, due to the characters.
Roman Polanski and his screenwriter in this film, Gerard Brach, were said to be enamored of theater of the absurd during their sojourn in Paris in the mid-60s, and wished to make a cinematic version of the then prevailing absurdist drama. Axmaker, S. // Video Librarian;Nov/Dec2011, Vol. Cul-de-Sac. An interesting approach, but the characters weren't so much. The cymbals were that man's hatred of stuff is not thingy and shit. It is real cinema.".
Eventually a even more bizarre bonding develops between the couple and Stander, one of the gangsters. Financial support was also difficult to find in England but their success with Repulsion (1965), a psychological-horror film, made financing available for Cul-De-Sac, which was the film they wanted to make all along.
It starts off well enough with a solid opening act that had quite a few laughs, mostly thanks to Pleasance, but after a while it began to wear thin. He's one of the most brilliant at it, at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey just like the chamber pieces Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden. This is all very well, but the film works the audience far too hard. TMDb What a mix! Also included is a half-hour TV interview of Polanski produced shortly after Fearless Vampire Killers, as well as two trailers. Report this film, "Now is the winter of our disco tent"-Britney Shakespears, This is the best film ever since the last one I liked. The first we see of Teresa is her lying topless on top of a…, They went artsy after Repulsion success, I think.
If we think of Roman Polanski's pieces, Nóz w wodzie (1962)is more important, Repulsion (1965)is in my opinion almost the best movie ever made, Rosemary's baby (1968)is more horrifying and Le Locataire (1976) is more interesting, not to talk about Chinatown (1974) etc. A wounded criminal and his dying partner take up refuge at a beachfront villa, which (not surprisingly) makes the owners less than thrilled. The two share a rather bizarre passive, aggressive relationship that quickly disintegrates when interrupted by the strangers. A good thing about the acting is that the people in this film were pretending to be other people and that's why they had two names in the credits; you see one is their real name and one is their character name. My favorite sequence is a prolonged drunken beach trip where gangster Dicky thinks he's being rescued by a plane. I've only recently been able to acquire a copy of this fascinating story which seems to combine Harold Pinter with Woody Allen. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856, mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies, TSPDT THE 1,000 GREATEST FILMS (2020 Edition), 2,500 + Noteworthy Movies on Amazon Prime, ️Déjà Vu : A Chronological History of French Cinema Since Time Began - Une vitrine chronologique du cinéma français depuis la nuit des temps. Chickens at life. A list of Edgar Wright's favorite 1000 Movies per his list on Mubi on July 27th, 2016. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856 mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies. Cul-de-Sac. Even his recent stuff is so good (I'm talking especially about Carnage). More details at There’s a direct line between the “island” of Cul-de-sac and the intense seclusion of later Polanski thrillers like Death And The Maiden and The Ghost Writer, and the new disc makes it possible to see where those seeds were planted. Lionel Stander was born to play Dickie and Jackie Bissett has a nice cameo role.
IMDb
Two Gangsters and an Island (1080i/60, 23 min) — Produced in 2003 by Blue Underground, the short making-of doc is an amusing piece about casting, the story, aspirations and the production in general. After a botched robbery two felons by the names of "Richard" (Lionel Standler) and "Albie" (Jack MacGowran) escape by car to an isolated castle on the island of Lindisfame in Northumberland, England. I guess Polanski is a human director, after all! A very irritating movie, overall, due to the characters.
Roman Polanski and his screenwriter in this film, Gerard Brach, were said to be enamored of theater of the absurd during their sojourn in Paris in the mid-60s, and wished to make a cinematic version of the then prevailing absurdist drama. Axmaker, S. // Video Librarian;Nov/Dec2011, Vol. Cul-de-Sac. An interesting approach, but the characters weren't so much. The cymbals were that man's hatred of stuff is not thingy and shit. It is real cinema.".
Eventually a even more bizarre bonding develops between the couple and Stander, one of the gangsters. Financial support was also difficult to find in England but their success with Repulsion (1965), a psychological-horror film, made financing available for Cul-De-Sac, which was the film they wanted to make all along.
It starts off well enough with a solid opening act that had quite a few laughs, mostly thanks to Pleasance, but after a while it began to wear thin. He's one of the most brilliant at it, at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey just like the chamber pieces Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden. This is all very well, but the film works the audience far too hard. TMDb What a mix! Also included is a half-hour TV interview of Polanski produced shortly after Fearless Vampire Killers, as well as two trailers. Report this film, "Now is the winter of our disco tent"-Britney Shakespears, This is the best film ever since the last one I liked. The first we see of Teresa is her lying topless on top of a…, They went artsy after Repulsion success, I think.
If we think of Roman Polanski's pieces, Nóz w wodzie (1962)is more important, Repulsion (1965)is in my opinion almost the best movie ever made, Rosemary's baby (1968)is more horrifying and Le Locataire (1976) is more interesting, not to talk about Chinatown (1974) etc. A wounded criminal and his dying partner take up refuge at a beachfront villa, which (not surprisingly) makes the owners less than thrilled. The two share a rather bizarre passive, aggressive relationship that quickly disintegrates when interrupted by the strangers. A good thing about the acting is that the people in this film were pretending to be other people and that's why they had two names in the credits; you see one is their real name and one is their character name. My favorite sequence is a prolonged drunken beach trip where gangster Dicky thinks he's being rescued by a plane. I've only recently been able to acquire a copy of this fascinating story which seems to combine Harold Pinter with Woody Allen. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856, mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies, TSPDT THE 1,000 GREATEST FILMS (2020 Edition), 2,500 + Noteworthy Movies on Amazon Prime, ️Déjà Vu : A Chronological History of French Cinema Since Time Began - Une vitrine chronologique du cinéma français depuis la nuit des temps. Chickens at life. A list of Edgar Wright's favorite 1000 Movies per his list on Mubi on July 27th, 2016. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856 mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies. Cul-de-Sac. Even his recent stuff is so good (I'm talking especially about Carnage). More details at There’s a direct line between the “island” of Cul-de-sac and the intense seclusion of later Polanski thrillers like Death And The Maiden and The Ghost Writer, and the new disc makes it possible to see where those seeds were planted. Lionel Stander was born to play Dickie and Jackie Bissett has a nice cameo role.
IMDb
Two Gangsters and an Island (1080i/60, 23 min) — Produced in 2003 by Blue Underground, the short making-of doc is an amusing piece about casting, the story, aspirations and the production in general. After a botched robbery two felons by the names of "Richard" (Lionel Standler) and "Albie" (Jack MacGowran) escape by car to an isolated castle on the island of Lindisfame in Northumberland, England. I guess Polanski is a human director, after all! A very irritating movie, overall, due to the characters.
Roman Polanski and his screenwriter in this film, Gerard Brach, were said to be enamored of theater of the absurd during their sojourn in Paris in the mid-60s, and wished to make a cinematic version of the then prevailing absurdist drama. Axmaker, S. // Video Librarian;Nov/Dec2011, Vol. Cul-de-Sac. An interesting approach, but the characters weren't so much. The cymbals were that man's hatred of stuff is not thingy and shit. It is real cinema.".
Eventually a even more bizarre bonding develops between the couple and Stander, one of the gangsters. Financial support was also difficult to find in England but their success with Repulsion (1965), a psychological-horror film, made financing available for Cul-De-Sac, which was the film they wanted to make all along.
It starts off well enough with a solid opening act that had quite a few laughs, mostly thanks to Pleasance, but after a while it began to wear thin. He's one of the most brilliant at it, at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey just like the chamber pieces Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden. This is all very well, but the film works the audience far too hard. TMDb What a mix! Also included is a half-hour TV interview of Polanski produced shortly after Fearless Vampire Killers, as well as two trailers. Report this film, "Now is the winter of our disco tent"-Britney Shakespears, This is the best film ever since the last one I liked. The first we see of Teresa is her lying topless on top of a…, They went artsy after Repulsion success, I think.
In fact one could find many similarities between this movie and Knife In The Water. The Blu-ray of 'Cul-de-sac' shares the same special features as its DVD counterpart.
In an interview in 1970 (before Chinatown), Polanski called it "my best film. I decided to give it a go because I saw it was in the UK Criterion Collection (and we know how limited that is) but yeah would rather have Repulsion or Rosemary’s Baby on Criterion for Polanski rather than this which did disappoint me I’ve got to say. CUL-DE-SAC is probably the most cutting movie Polanski has ever made.
If we think of Roman Polanski's pieces, Nóz w wodzie (1962)is more important, Repulsion (1965)is in my opinion almost the best movie ever made, Rosemary's baby (1968)is more horrifying and Le Locataire (1976) is more interesting, not to talk about Chinatown (1974) etc. A wounded criminal and his dying partner take up refuge at a beachfront villa, which (not surprisingly) makes the owners less than thrilled. The two share a rather bizarre passive, aggressive relationship that quickly disintegrates when interrupted by the strangers. A good thing about the acting is that the people in this film were pretending to be other people and that's why they had two names in the credits; you see one is their real name and one is their character name. My favorite sequence is a prolonged drunken beach trip where gangster Dicky thinks he's being rescued by a plane. I've only recently been able to acquire a copy of this fascinating story which seems to combine Harold Pinter with Woody Allen. By the way, I hadn't noticed that Françoise Dorléac has such a delightful laugh. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856, mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies, TSPDT THE 1,000 GREATEST FILMS (2020 Edition), 2,500 + Noteworthy Movies on Amazon Prime, ️Déjà Vu : A Chronological History of French Cinema Since Time Began - Une vitrine chronologique du cinéma français depuis la nuit des temps. Chickens at life. A list of Edgar Wright's favorite 1000 Movies per his list on Mubi on July 27th, 2016. twitter.com/edgarwright/status/758339515421433856 mubi.com/lists/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies. Cul-de-Sac. Even his recent stuff is so good (I'm talking especially about Carnage). More details at There’s a direct line between the “island” of Cul-de-sac and the intense seclusion of later Polanski thrillers like Death And The Maiden and The Ghost Writer, and the new disc makes it possible to see where those seeds were planted. Lionel Stander was born to play Dickie and Jackie Bissett has a nice cameo role.
IMDb
Two Gangsters and an Island (1080i/60, 23 min) — Produced in 2003 by Blue Underground, the short making-of doc is an amusing piece about casting, the story, aspirations and the production in general. After a botched robbery two felons by the names of "Richard" (Lionel Standler) and "Albie" (Jack MacGowran) escape by car to an isolated castle on the island of Lindisfame in Northumberland, England. I guess Polanski is a human director, after all! A very irritating movie, overall, due to the characters.
Roman Polanski and his screenwriter in this film, Gerard Brach, were said to be enamored of theater of the absurd during their sojourn in Paris in the mid-60s, and wished to make a cinematic version of the then prevailing absurdist drama. Axmaker, S. // Video Librarian;Nov/Dec2011, Vol. Cul-de-Sac. An interesting approach, but the characters weren't so much. The cymbals were that man's hatred of stuff is not thingy and shit. It is real cinema.".
Eventually a even more bizarre bonding develops between the couple and Stander, one of the gangsters. Financial support was also difficult to find in England but their success with Repulsion (1965), a psychological-horror film, made financing available for Cul-De-Sac, which was the film they wanted to make all along.
It starts off well enough with a solid opening act that had quite a few laughs, mostly thanks to Pleasance, but after a while it began to wear thin. He's one of the most brilliant at it, at being able to veer away from making things static and stagey just like the chamber pieces Knife in the Water or Death and the Maiden. This is all very well, but the film works the audience far too hard. TMDb What a mix! Also included is a half-hour TV interview of Polanski produced shortly after Fearless Vampire Killers, as well as two trailers. Report this film, "Now is the winter of our disco tent"-Britney Shakespears, This is the best film ever since the last one I liked. The first we see of Teresa is her lying topless on top of a…, They went artsy after Repulsion success, I think.