Polanski on the Set. About the Production of Cul-de-Sac

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Notes

1 In the 2022 critics’ poll, Chinatown was ranked 146^th. See https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-alltime. However, in the 2022 directors’ poll, the film was ranked 72^nd. In the 2022 critics’ poll Chinatown was ranked 78^th and in the directors’ poll 91^st. See https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time-2012 [accessed 06.04.2023].

2 This anecdotal example was given by Polish director Agnieszka Holland during her meeting with the audience at Kino Kultura in Warsaw on January 24th, 2023. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QULtTtVOW3c&embeds_euri=https%3A//www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dagnieszka%2Bholland%2Bkino%2Bkultura%26sxsrf%3DAPwXEdcQqezaQDOPEDKp8CiCV1PBn5HoQ%3A1680694439568%26source%3Dlnm&feature=emb_logo [accessed 05.04.2023].

3 For example, Polish journalist Małgorzata Sadowska claims that Polanski ‘represents the patriarchal world of strong masculinity, male elites and artists treated as gods’. See Sadowska 2019.

4 The notion of ‘sadomodernism’ is primarily used to refer to the violence depicted on the screen by modernist directors. See: Weigel 2013.