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ORSON WELLES: THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, Funhouse Mirror Ending

The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his estranged wife Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane. It is based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King. Continue reading ORSON WELLES: THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, Funhouse Mirror Ending

ROMAN POLANSKI, in conversation with Clive James, 1983, 58 min.

Writer/Critic Clive James Meets Roman Polanski — A rare TV documentary filmed in 1984. Running 46 minutes and encompassing a wide variety of topics Polanski speaks frankly about his childhood in the Warsaw ghetto, his mothers death, his beginnings in filmmaking, his tragic marriage to Sharon Tate and eventually even his arrest for sexual assault.  Fantastic interview.