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The Perils of Personal Filmmaking
Searching Scorsese's "Shutter Island" and Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" for signs of the personal.
Is “Shutter Island” too impersonal? Do the parallels between Roman Polanski’s real life legal issues and the threat of extradition facing a character in “The Ghost Writer” add an extra layer of meaning to the film? This week on the IFC News podcast, we talk about what it means to make a “personal film,” and how useful it is to look at a movie through what we know about the life of its creator.
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This week’s Keyword Game giveaway is a copy of Steve Pond’s book “The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards.”
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, Shutter Island, Tetro, The Ghost Writer
