A Roman Polanski Collection (3 Criterion NTSC DVDs & 4 UK PAL DVDs)
Art-House/Drama | OCR | B&W/Colour | Dolby Digital | Subtitles
7 Full Original DVD Images (.ISO) + 400dpi Scans = 43.8GBs | 400MB RARs | SM/NL
Knife in the Water (1962, 94mins) [The Criterion Collection, 1 DVD9 & 1 DVD5]
| “ | Roman Polanski’s first feature is a brilliant psychological thriller that many critics still consider among his greatest work. The story is simple, yet the implications of its characters’ emotions and actions are profound. When a young hitchhiker joins a couple on a weekend yacht trip, psychological warfare breaks out as the two men compete for the woman’s attention. A storm forces the small crew below deck, and tension builds to a violent climax. With stinging dialogue and a mercilessly probing camera, Polanski creates a disturbing study of fear, humiliation, sexuality, and aggression. This remarkable directorial debut won Polanski worldwide acclaim, a place on the cover of Time, and his first Oscar nomination. | ” |
Disc Features:
* New high-definition digital transfer
* Video interview with director Roman Polanski and co-screenwriter, Jerzy Skolimowski
* Collection of Roman Polanski’s short films from 1957-1962, including: Murder, Teeth Smile, Break Up the Dance, Two Men and a Wardrobe, The Lamp, When Angels Fall, The Fat and the Lean, and Mammals
* A collection of rare publicity and production stills
* Dolby Digital Mono
* English subtitle translation by Roman Polanski
Repulsion (1965, 105mins) [The Criterion Collection DVD9]
| “ | Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. She is soon haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent, hysterical pitch. Thanks to its disturbing detail and Polanski’s adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion is a surreal, mind-bending odyssey into personal horror, and it remains one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers. | ” |
Disc Features:
* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Roman Polanski
* Audio commentary featuring Polanski and actress Catherine Deneuve
* A British Horror Film (2003), a documentary on the making of Repulsion, featuring interviews with Polanski, producer Gene Gutowski, and cinematographer Gil Taylor, among others
* A 1964 television documentary filmed on the set of Repulsion, with rare footage of Polanski and Deneuve at work
* Original theatrical trailers
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar and curator Bill Horrigan
* Dolby Digital Mono
* English SDH subtitles
Cul-de-sac (1966, 107mins) [Anchor Bay PAL DVD9]
| “ | A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion | ” |
Disc Features:
• Two Gangsters and an Island featurette
• Theatrical trailer
• Liner notes
• Talent bios
• Poster and stills gallery
• Dolby Digital Mono/5.1/DTS 5.1
• No subtitles
Rosemary's Baby (1968, 131mins) [Paramount PAL DVD9]
| “ | Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbours are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbours have special plans for her child. | ” |
Disc Features:
Retrospective Interview
"Making Of" Featurette
Languages: English, German
Dolby Digital Mono/5.1
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
Chinatown (1974, 125mins) [Paramount PAL DVD9]
| “ | JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. | ” |
Disc Features:
• Retrospective Interviews
• Theatrical Trailer
•Languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hungarian
•Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired, German, Spanish,Italian, Norwegian, Finish, Turkish, Danish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish
• Dolby Digital 5.1
The Tenant (1976, 120mins) [Paramount PAL DVD5]
| “ | In Paris, the shy bureaucrat Trelkovsky rents an old apartment without bathroom where the previous tenant, the Egyptologist Simone Choule, committed suicide. The unfriendly concierge (Shelley Winters) and the tough landlord Mr. Zy establish stringent rules of behavior and Trekovsky feels ridden by his neighbors. Meanwhile he visits Simone in the hospital and befriends her girlfriend Stella. After the death of Simone, Trekovsky feels obsessed for her and believes his landlord and neighbors are plotting a scheme to force him to also commit suicide | ” |
Disc Features:
• Theatrical Trailer
•Languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian
•Subtitles: English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Serbian ; Slovenian ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish
• Dolby Digital 2.0
Scans:
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Knife in the Water Disc 1 (Movie):
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Knife in the Water Disc 2 (Short films):
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Repulsion:
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Cul-de-sac:
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Rosemary's Baby:
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Chinatown:
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The Tenant:
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