Saturday, January 25, 2014

The Tenant (France: Roman Polanski, 1976)



The Tenant (France: Roman Polanski, 1976: 125 mins)

Bradley, S.A. "Nowhere Man: The Outsider in Horror." Hell Bent for Horror #30 (January 21, 2017)
["The Us vs. Them mentality is a backdrop for some really good horror stories. Frankenstein being a great example. The Monster is the outsider, but yet you sympathize with him. In these conflicts, horror is uniquely suited to tell some great stories, and give different results. What makes THEM…them? How easily can WE become THEM? “Civilized” society is a tough path to tread. In this episode I talk about Horror and the outsider. I bring up Frankenstein and then go from short stories to little known movies to popular movies of the last decade."]

Bradley, S.A. and James Hancock. "Roman Polanski's Apartment Trilogy." Wrong Reel #253 (April 2017)

Cairns, David. "Eternal Recurrence: Beginning at the end with Roman Polanski." Moving Image Source (September 8, 2011)

Del Valle, David. "Wig of a Poet: Un Polanski Rorschach." Acidemic #6 (2010)

Duvall, Jamey, Mike White and Alex Winter. "The Tenant (1976)." The Projection Booth #344 (October 10, 2017) ["Adapted from a book by Roland Topor (Fantastic Planet), the film also stars Polanski as Trelkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment. He finds one where the previous occupant has defenestrated herself. After her death, he's able to move in and finds that his neighbors don't like him being noisy... in fact, they don't like him being him at all. Some put this alongside Polanski's Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby as his “apartment trilogy” in which explores the terrors of urban paranoia."]

Fernandez, Ingrid. "Visions of the Other: The Return of the Abject in Roman Polanski's The Tenant." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "Roman Polanski: Cinema of Invasion." ACMI (October 13, 2016)

Savage, David. "A Polanski Guide to Urban Living." Cinema Retro (July 27, 2007)

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