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Liliana Komorowska interviews Roman Polanski at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, November 2023. Photo: Ela Kinowska.

Liliana Komorowska interviews Roman Polanski at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, November 2023. Photo: Ela Kinowska.

Roman Polanski with Liliana Komorowska at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, November 2023. Photo Ela Kinowska.

Liliana Komorowska interviews Roman Polanski at the Bristol Hotel in Warsaw, November 2023. Photo: Greta Mrgane.

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Bad movie I have Her Alibi 1989

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Horror Movie Review: Screamers (1995)

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.

Screamers is a 1995 science fiction horror film, directed by Christian Duguay. Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1953 short story “Second Variety”. In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company (N.E.B.), and “The Alliance”, a group of former mining and science personnel. After miners discovered that their…

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September's single shots: Her Alibi (dir. Bruce Beresford, 1989)

This unfunny comedy's catchy trailer played on every second VHS cassette I would watch the late 80s–early 90s. Lewis has a fun cameo as one of the court's jury members. Selleck doesn't have fun though.

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Movie Review | Scanners III: The Takeover (Duguay, 1991)

To be honest I decided to watch Scanners II: The New Order on Canada Day as a bit of a joke, but now I'm glad I got through it so I could watch this, because this is kind of amazing. For one, with Liliana Komorowska, this easily has the best lead performance in the series. She plays the villain, and I'd put Michael Ironside over her in that respect, but she has as much if not more screentime than Steve Parrish, who plays the hero in this movie. And compared to Parrish, the serviceable David Hewlett in the second film, or the total void of Stephen Lack in the original, she's giving 110% and totally sinking her teeth into her character's villainy, totally unafraid to make funny faces to sell the material. And speaking as a straight man, I found her distressingly sexy. Distressingly because she was using her Scanning powers for evil. Had she used them for good, there would be no distress. Anyway, I said I'd be less thirsty in my reviews, but I lied.

She plays one half of a brother-sister Scanner duo who uses her Scanning powers to climb the corporate ladder. At the time this probably played like a gender-flipped Michael Douglas yuppie thriller, and any misogyny that could be read into this was probably taken unironically. But in retrospect, this plays like a pretty good satire of the girlboss CEO archetype. Were this to be remade (instead of the original for whatever reason), you could credibly pretend it was inspired by Elizabeth Holmes without changing too much of the screenplay. I'd like to think this is at least partially intentional as satire, because Komorowska spends a good chunk of the movie with a hilariously outdated "power" hairdo that feels like it was dug up from the '30s. She looks like Mildred Pierce of some shit. (I haven't seen Mildred Pierce. For all I know the main character has perfectly normal hair.)

One quality that I think places this closer to the original than the sequel is the way it ties the characters' exploration of their powers into the overall thrust of the movie. I think one of the challenges of what you might call Vinegar Syndrome core is that daffiness on its own can be sporadically entertaining, but needs to have shape to sustain your interest. (This was released on Blu-ray by Shout Factory, but this definitely has VS energy with its absurdist streak.) And for all the baffling things that transpire, they are pretty consistently tied to the arcs of the two leads, who are figuring out the extent of their abilities and finding new uses for them. And while no one will mistake Christian Duguay for David Cronenberg, he does imbue this with almost relentless forward momentum, staging the action scenes with athletic swerves of the camera and a great sense of timing. (For evidence of this, one need not look further than an underwater head explosion or the severed arm punchline that Letterboxd user Adam L astutely cites.) This lacks the frigid surfaces of the original that one gets with Cronenberg, but the fact that it looks like a TV movie arguably helps the daffiness pop.

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Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)

My rating: 6/10

Psychic person takes experimental drug that turns her evil, her brother (who's been training with Buddhist monks, because of course he has - why are Buddhist monks always so good at teaching people to use their superpowers, anyway?) isn't okay with that. Amusing violence ensues.

This is a very cheesy movie, in a rather entertaining way - lots of scenery chewing, goofy splatter effects and the obligatory "who can make the weirdest face" psychic battles. Kind of wish the movie weren't so overly reliant on the human breast to grab the audience's attention, though.

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Liliana Komorowska as Helena Monet in Scanners III: The Takeover 

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Screamers

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SCANNERS 3: THE TAKEOVER (1991) Reviews and overview

SCANNERS 3: THE TAKEOVER (1991) Reviews and overview

‘Get ready for the ultimate display of brain power.’ Scanners 3: The Takeover is a 1991 Canadian science-fiction horror film about a young woman who takes her father’s experimental F3 drug. Unfortunately, the drug has a side-effect and turns her into a murderous, power-crazed villain. Also released as Scanner Force Directed by Christian Duguay (Screamers; Scanners II: The New Order) from a…

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Austeria, de Jerzy Kawalerowicz, en projection gratuite au Pôle Étudiant de l’Université de Nantes, le mercredi 24 mai à 19h30

La projection d'Austeria sera précédée d'un atelier de prog ciné-club d' Accès au cinéma invisible, gratuit et ouvert aux étudiants, à l'étage du Pôle Etudiant - Université de Nantes, de 18h00 à 19h30. Plus d'infos : Atelier de prog ciné-club ouvert aux étudiants ! Austeria (Pologne, 1982, 109 min, vostfr), un film de Jerzy Kawalerowicz, écrit par Tadeusz Konwicki, avec Franciszek Pieczka, Liliana Komorowska et Wojciech Pszoniak. A la veille de la 1ère Guerre Mondiale à l'Est de la Pologne, une troupe de juifs hassidiques se réfugie dans une auberge (austeria, en polonais), tenue par le vieux Tag, pour fuir un pogrom mené par des Cosaques venus de la Russie voisine. Dans cet établissement se retrouvent également des personnes de nombreuses communautés, se réunissent dans une ambiance de fin d'une monde. Réalisé en 1982, mais inédit en salles en France, Austeria est pourtant l'un des chefs-d’œuvre du grand réalisateur polonais Jerzy Kawalerowicz, auteur de Train de Nuit ou du Pharaon, qui critiquait de manière à peine voilée le régime de son pays à l'époque. Situé à une époque charnière, pour ne pas dire décisive, de l'histoire commune de la Pologne, l'Ukraine et la Russie, Austeria propose une réflexion sur la transition d'un contexte historique à un autre, par le biais des habitants juifs de cette région. C'est aussi l'annonce des horreurs à venir, qui assombriront le 20ème siècle et dont les germes sont ici tout à fait décelable. Austeria est aussi, simplement, un très beau film, et ce, malgré une dimension tragique. A découvrir en version originale polonaise, sous-titrée en français, gratuitement et accessible à tous !

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For those of you wondering what Youtube clips Karamo is referring to that make him think Antoni is going to win an Academy Award someday, I’m pretty sure this is what he is talking about. This short film is entirely in Polish, but you can understand what is going on without needing to hear the words in English. Fair warning: Without spoiling anything, this film contains some violence and sensitive scenes that may be triggering to some people.

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Actress Liliana Komorowska at The 28th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Opening Night at Cinema Paradiso on October 18, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale. Photo by Jay Kravetz (at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZOSFTvOnC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Scanners III: The Takeover * (1991, Liliana Komorowska, Valérie Valois, Steve Parrish, Colin Fox) - Classic Movie Review 9887

Scanners III: The Takeover * (1991, Liliana Komorowska, Valérie Valois, Steve Parrish, Colin Fox) – Classic Movie Review 9887

Director Christian Duguay’s Canadian 1991 action horror sci-fi film sequel Scanners III: The Takeover is again based on the characters from David Cronenberg’s 1981 movie Scanners.

Duguay returns as director after his earlier 1991 Scanners II: The New Order for this third one in the series that sees a new generation of Scanners planning to take over the planet.

Scanners III: The Takeover is…

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Here’s my portrait of Jean-Paul Riopelle hanging in a Montreal loft. We spent a lovely evening there yesterday with Polish friends. Our delightful hostess was actress Liliana Komorowska @lilakomorowska, also called « the Queen » for the evening. 😆 I sang in German, Jean played Chopin, we spoke English and ate vegan. It was quite a melting pot! And it was topped by Krówki, an exquisite sweet made of soft Polish fudge. 🤤 Voici mon portrait de Jean-Paul Riopelle accroché dans un loft à Montréal. Nous avons passé là une très agréable soirée hier en compagnie d’amis polonais. Notre délicieuse hôtesse était l’actrice Liliana Komorowska, aussi appelée « la Reine » pour la soirée. 😆 J’ai chanté en allemand, Jean a joué Chopin, on a parlé anglais et mangé végane. Tout un melting-pot! Et ça s’est conclu par des Krówkis, des sucreries absolument exquises faites de fudge polonais. 🤤 . . #jeanpaulriopelle #riopelle #mathieulaca #poland (à Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8PE_WLn3Ut/?igshid=18kz3oltxj2nm