Episode 344: The Tenant (1976)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Shocktober 2017 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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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:08.7	Paris, on a quiet street, in an old building, a dead woman's vacant apartment is waiting.
0:21.0	Waiting for the tenant.
0:25.9	Roman Polansky is the tenant.
0:30.5	In Chinatown, he exposed the dark side of corruption.
0:35.4	In repulsion, he explored a warped mind. In Rosemary's baby,
0:40.3	he examined the occult. Now, the tenant, something altogether new, altogether chilling.
0:48.3	No one does it to you like Roman Polanski.
1:03.2	Lieutenant, a Roman Polansky film coming from Paramount Pictures.
1:09.7	Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.
1:12.1	Joining me once again is Mr. Jamie Nuvall.
1:19.7	I have returned because no one does it to me like the projection booth. Also joining us this week is Mr. Alex Winter.
1:22.2	Hey, you guys. It's really, really good to be here.
1:27.7	This week we're discussing the 1976 film from Roman Polanski, the Tenant. Adapted from a book by Roland Topor,
1:30.1	the film also stars Polanski as
1:32.1	Trilkovsky, a man in need of a new apartment.
1:35.8	He finds one where the previous occupant
1:38.1	has defenestrated herself.
1:40.1	After her death, he's able to move in
1:42.1	and finds that his neighbors don't like him being noisy.
1:45.0	In fact, they don't really like him at all.
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