Polanski
Roman Polanski, a director raised in Europe, attended a European film school, bringing with him a European take on cinema. Born in Paris, he then moved to Warsaw, Poland at a young age, and was orphaned when his mother and father were held captive in a concentration camp (Taken from "Roman Polanski, Virginia Wright Wexman).The research materials I used were photos taken from "Repulsion, 1965", "Rosemary's Baby, 1968", and "The Tenant, 1976". I have also watched a film documentary called "Scene by Scene" which gives a breakdown of some of Polans
My research methods consisted of me looking things up on websites, reading books in the library and photocopying interesting articles and journals. I on viewing these films by the director discovered there many thematic and technical comparisons, which raised the question in my mind, "Is this authorial?" My plan is to investigate whether this grants Polanski the status of an auteur. I chose to study this director as a continuation of my AS course. Alienation and psychological breakdown are recurring themes in many of Polanski's films which are explored through a numbers of forms and conventions. However, the main area in the more academic journals is his strong visual sense, and his preoccupation with marginalised figures. The newspaper articles I have obtained focus upon Polanski's turbulent personal life. These are used in the films I have studied to heighten the effects of loneliness and alienation. I have a number of newspaper articles and film journals which discuss Polanski's life and films. This blend offers any audience the best of both worlds, whether they enjoy conventional or alternative films. The items in my catalogue, website printouts, films text books, are relevant to my research for a number of reasons. I consider Polanski's style is unique, hybridising traditional mainstream film technique with that of Art house style conventions. I have also included a photo gallery which acts as authentication for the director's "individual stamp" not only thematically, but technically, with his film form bearing similarities in every film such as similar lighting techniques, shot composition, and framing. ki's films, thus enabling me to get an in-depth look directly at the similarities that arise in Polanski's films; and offered me authentication that auteurs do not make different films, but remake the same one many times.
Common topics in this essay:
Scene Scene,
Roman Polanski,
Warsaw Poland,
Rosemary's Baby,
Wright Wexman,
Born Paris,
polanski's films,
newspaper articles,
roman polanski,
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