Episode 344: The Tenant (1976)

Guest Co-Hosts: Alex Winter, Jamey Duvall

#Shocktober2017 continues with a the 1976 film from Roman Polanski, The Tenant . Adapted from a book by Roland Topor (Fantastic Planet), the film also stars Polanski as Trelkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment. He finds one where the previous occupant has defenestrated herself. After her death, he's able to move in and finds that his neighbors don't like him being noisy... in fact, they don't like him being him at all. Some put this alongside Polanski's Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby as his “apartment trilogy” in which explores the terrors of urban paranoia.

Jamey Duvall of Movie Geeks United! and writer/director/actor Alex Winter join Mike to discuss what many consider to be Polanski's most personal film.

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Links:
Buy The Tenant on DVD
Buy The Tenant by Roland Topor
Buy the soundtrack CD by Phillip Sarde
Learn more about the Fan Preservation of The Tenant
Visit the official Alex Winter website
Check out the Movie Geeks United Kubrick Series
Listen to our Eyes Wide Shut episode

Music:
"The Tenant" - Play Dead
"The Tenant" - Japan

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Episode 306: Fantastic Planet (1973)

Guest Co-Hosts: Vincenzo Natali, Jeffrey Babcock

Vincenzo Natali and Jeffrey Babcock join Mike to look at the 1973 film from René Laloux, Fantastic Planet .

Also known as La Planète Sauvage, this animated film was based on a book by Stefan Wul called Oms en série with visuals designed by Roland Topor of the Panic Movement. The film tells the tale of a world where exist as pets and pestilence to the Draags, 39 feet high blue-skinned creatures who enjoy meditation.

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Links:
Buy Fantastic Planet on Blu-Ray
Buy Fantastic Planet by Stefan Wul
Read Looking back at the animated films of Rene Laloux by Aliya Whiteley
Learn more about the Panic Movement

Music:
"Generique" - Alain Goraguer
"Pets" - Porno for Pyros
"Ter Et Tiwa" - Alain Goraguer

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