Currently On Sale On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive On Sale: 2007 Archive All That Fosse GS: Clara Bow Met: Roméo et Juliette Val Lewton Spanish Cinema Now Pilar Miró La Guerra Filmada YFF: ...Dollhouse Accattone in Jazz GS: Battling Butler Pasolini The Iron Horse Freewheelin’: Music Docs David Fincher Whole Shootin' Match Rolex Art Weekend NYWIFT: Attica YFF: Murmur... Beyond Boundaries IN: Greensboro 10 Years HK Leo Awards 07 Chinese Modern Avant-Garde De Andrade For Goodis Sake YFF: Run Fatboy... Zeki Demirkubuz FCS: The Last Winter Latinbeat 07 Latinbeat 07 Sidebar Gerard Depardieu IN: Life on the Mesa YFF: Bullets over B'way FCS: Executioner’s Song FCS: Them Green Screens: 11th Hour Polanski ...Vampire Killers Repulsion Rosemary’s Baby The Tenants Scanners: NY Video Fest Woodfall Studios FCS: Norman Mailer SFP: Way Down East SE: After This... YFF: King of New York SE: Talk To Me Kino Live Earth FCS: Joshua Next Gen.: Scorsese Human Rights Watch IN: Banished SE: Evening New Italian Cinema YFF: The Story of Qiu Ju Magnum Barry Lyndon 4 from Schlesinger Lee Marvin Wide Awake White Nights Paul Mazursky Duke Ellington SE: Il Trittico YFF: Waitress SFP: Toons, Tunes... Carlos Saura China's Independents FCS: Electra FCS: Hot Fuzz African Film Festival Daniel Barenboim ND/NF Classics Tian Zhuangzhuang Offside Rendez-Vous FCS: P. Verhoeven IN: A Dream in Doubt Film Comment Selects YFF: In the Soup Donald Cammell SE: Days of Glory Farmanara Retro NY Jewish Film Festival Whitaker Films SE: Forest Whitaker SE: For Goodis Sakepostponed Dance on Camera 2007 On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT		Summer Chills: Four By Roman Polanski Monday, July 30 & Wednesday, August 1, 2007 Nothing services a scary thriller better than standout performances and perfect production detail. Roman Polanski was a master at delivering both. He had escaped the Nazis as a little boy and survived with the help of a Polish farmer. After the war, he was told by his sister that his mother had died in Auschwitz. Educated at the film school in Lodz, Poland, he made several short films which gained considerable recognition. His first feature, Knife in the Water (1962), was the first major postwar Polish film without the war as a theme, and it led to Polanski’s first nomination for an Oscar®. Never afraid of switching around his crew of craftsmen and producers, Polanski went on make films in the United Kingdom like Repulsion and The Fearless Vampire Killers, most with a different production team, save producer Gene Gutowski. Here, he met his co-star and future wife Sharon Tate, whose tragic murder in the Hollywood Hills later devastated him. When Polanski became part of the Hollywood mainstream, he spent time with the likes of Robert Evans and Jack Nicholson, creating some of the iconographic films of the era, including Rosemary’s Baby, Macbeth, Chinatown, and The Tenant. Though he was involved in the scandal that forced him to flee the United States 1978, Polanski has continued to make masterworks and earn the esteem and recognition of American critics, including winning the Best Director Academy Award® for The Pianist in 2002. Continuing with our capsule looks at some of the cinema’s most ambitious and profound talents, we are thrilled to thrill you with these four nail-biting classics, including all three entries in Polanski’s so-called apartment trilogy. Come in out of the heat, sit back in the A/C and let us give you Summer Chills: Four by Roman Polanski. Admission: $11 general public; $7 members & students; $7 seniors weekday matinee screenings only. To purchase tickets online click on the SHOWTIME under Buy Tickets. Please note: there is a $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office.
			The Fearless Vampire Killers Roman Polanski, US/UK, 1967; 108m Roman Polanski’s typically offbeat take on the vampire genre is a send-up of the Hammer Films style. On the hunt for vampires, Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his apprentice Alfred (Polanksi) head to Transylvania, where Alfred becomes infatuated with the tavern keeper’s daughter, Sarah (Sharon Tate). When Sarah is abducted and the eccentric duo accept the invitation to stay with the mysterious Count von Krolock (Ferdy Mayne), the bedlam truly begins. Coming off the success of Repulsion, The Fearless Vampire Killers was mounted on a lavish scale and shot in succulent Metrocolor by the great Douglas Slocombe (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lion in Winter). Never fully realized in its original release, 16 minutes were cut and re-dubbed to accommodate the studio/exhibitor double-bill policy. This print is the uncut version, the way its fearless creator always intended it to be.		Buy Tickets Wed Aug 1: 8:30
			Repulsion Roman Polanski, UK, 1965; 104m In the first film in Polanski’s apartment trilogy, Carol (played by 20-year-old Catherine Deneuve) is a young virgin both repelled and attracted by the idea of sex. When Carol’s sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux) leaves on a holiday to Italy with her married boyfriend (Ian Hendry), Carol is left alone. Isolated at work too, she shuts herself up in their apartment, and becomes a slave of her own paranoid fears. Polanski and cinematographer Gilbert Taylor (Dr. Strangelove, Star Wars), shooting in perfect black and white, alternate between the hip/bustling mid-’60s streets and pubs of London to the nightmarish apartment full of shadows, dark corners, and haunting corridors. Followed the next year by Cul-de-sac, Polanski used this remarkable period in his filmmaking career to springboard into larger, studio-backed productions.		Buy Tickets Wed Aug 1: 6:15
			Rosemary’s Baby Roman Polanski, US, 1968; 136m Based on Ira Levin’s best-selling novel, Rosemary’s Baby is the second entry in the apartment trilogy. Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse (John Cassavetes and Mia Farrow) take a sprawling pre-war apartment on Central Park West and begin a loving, post-honeymoon relationship. But something’s not right with the way Guy begins acting, or the couple’s elderly neighbors. Little by little, Rosemary becomes aware that her apartment harbors evil and has a terrifying supernatural past. One of the finest horror films ever made and considered by many to be a masterpiece, Rosemary’s Baby stands out as the biggest box office hit of 1968. The tremendous supporting cast includes Ruth Gordon––who won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress––Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy, Maurice Evans, Patsy Kelly and a young Charles Grodin. The film catapulted Polanski into the Hollywood elite, resulting in another classic for Paramount, 1974’s Chinatown.		Buy Tickets Mon Jul 30: 6:15
			The Tenant Roman Polanski, France/US, 1976; 125m Polanski stars in the final part of the apartment trilogy as the quiet and unassuming Polish expatriate Trelkovsky. He rents an apartment in Paris where the previous tenant committed suicide. Before long, his new neighbors––played by an international ensemble cast including Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet and Lila Kedrova––take him and us on a bizarre journey through paranoia, madness, mystery and hysteria, ending in one of the most nightmarish climaxes of ‘70s cinema. With stunning cinematography by Sven Nykvist and a menacing score by Philippe Sarde, The Tenant caused a near-riot to get in when it screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976. It still is a big-screen must-see.		Buy Tickets Mon Jul 30: 9