As I said in class, Roman Polanski, the director of Chinatown, has lived a life worth its own movie. In fact, HBO did an excellent documentary on his legal troubles which I including above. It's called Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. Clearly Polanski is the most divisive director working today -- a criminal on the lam, a convicted child rapist, but also a Holocaust survivor and a victim of Charles Manson, one of America's most famous mad killers.
His best films, besides Chinatown, include:
Knife in the Water
Repulsion
Rosemary's Baby
Tess
The Pianist
But there are many other very interesting films as well. He played in many different genres -- even a pirate movie -- but his best work is in Hitchcockian style suspense thrillers and horror, obviously informed by his own dark and tragic history.
If you are interested in any of his films, I would gladly loan ones to you.
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