Everybody’s seen Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown (what?
you haven’t? well, they’re playing Friday and Saturday), but this
mini-retrospective of Roman Polanski films digs deeper than the
obvious masterworks. The jokey horror movie The Tenant, from
1976, is set in Paris where the housing market is painfully
tight. When a woman commits suicide, a sad Pole—played by
Polanski—gets her apartment. Then all paranoia breaks
loose. (SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St, 633-7151.
7 and 9:20 pm, $9–$10.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...