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Blood for Dracula [Andy Warhol’s Dracula] *** (1974, Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Stefania Casini, Arno Juerging, Vittorio De Sica, Roman Polanski) – Classic Movie Review 3,355
Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must drink the blood of virgins, in Paul Morrissey’s often stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie Blood for Dracula. It also stars Joe Dallesandro as the handsome servant Mario Balato. […]
Oliver Twist ** (2005, Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Leanne Rowe, Jamie Foreman, Jeremy Swift) – Classic Movie Review 2686
Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]
Cul-De-Sac **** (1966, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 2548
Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran star as bumbling crooks on the lam in co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s startling, humorous and strange British black comedy shocker. The duo, one wounded and the other dying, take refuge at the Holy Island […]
Dance of the Vampires [The Fearless Vampire Killers] **** (1967, Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Ferdy Mayne, Sharon Tate, Iain Quarrier) – Classic Movie Review 1739
This splendidly silly but gloriously witty and exceptionally good-looking 1967 English vampire spoof film Dance of the Vampires finds the right film-maker in co-writer/director Roman Polanski. The film-maker casts himself and his future wife Sharon […]
The Ninth Gate **** (1999, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 1,628
Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s shamefully neglected and underrated 1999 horror thriller film The Ninth Gate stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a New York rare book dealer who is hired by the creepy collector of books […]
Venus in Fur **** (2013, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric) – Movie Review
Director Roman Polanski casts his wife Emmanuelle Seigner as an actress who arrives late for an audition at a Paris theatre but still tries to convince the writer-director Mathieu Amalric that she’s perfect for a role in his […]
Macbeth **** (1971, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 774
Jon Finch does well in a fine, tragic hero film performance as the 10th century nobleman and tormented Scottish king Macbeth in director Roman Polanski’s lavish, great-looking and much underrated movie of the play by […]