Remembrances of Excellency Past: Zygmunt Malanowicz

Remembering the Excellent Polish actor Zygmunt Malanowicz star of Knife in the Water, The Outstanding 1962 suspense-thriller deals with rivalry and sexual tension and is the first full-length feature film directed by Roman Polanski.

Dead calm: Zygmunt Malanowicz in Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water.

SCENIC EXCELLENCE: ALBRECHT KONRAD and BERNHARD HENRICH for ROMAN POLANSKI’s THE GHOST WRITER

Applauding the Outstandingly Excellent and sleek production design, courtesy Albrecht Konrad, and the modernist monochromatic set decoration, by Bernhard Henrich, with art direction by David Scheunemann, for His Excellency Roman Polanski‘s new thriller, The Ghost Writer, based on the novel The Ghost by co-screenwriter Robert Harris, starring, among others, His Excellency Ewan McGregor.

Excellent decor: His Excellency Ewan McGregor in a scene from His Excallency Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer. Image by Guy Ferrandis for Summit Entertainment.

THE INDISPUTABLE CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE OF ROMAN POLANSKI

Presenting the trailer for The Ghost Writer, the new film by His Excellency, Academy Award winning director Roman Polanski, based on the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris, starring the Outstandingly Excellent Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, and Olivia Williams. In theaters in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, February 19, 2010.

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CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE: JACQUELINE SUSANN’S VALLEY OF THE DOLLS

Presenting the Excellently hysterical trailer for the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls, based on the 1966 best-selling roman-a-clef by the same name, one of the most commercially successful novels of all time, by Her Excellency Jacqueline Susann, directed by Mark Robson and starring Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, Sharon Tate (beautiful yet oomed wife of Roman Polanski, who was eight and a half months pregnant when she was gruesomely murdered in her and Polanski’s Benedict Canyon home in Los Angles on August 9, 1969, along with four others, by followers of Charles Manson), and Paul Burke as Lyon.