Emmanuelle Seigner may be the Devil in "The Ninth Gate," but the whole movie is about how complicated it is to summon the Devil, and she's been hanging around the whole picture.
Younger staff members admit to playing a drinking game based on the howlers in "The Ninth Gate," a biblio-thriller starring Johnny Depp as a rakish rare-book scout given to carelessly cracking spines and looking up 17th-century hand-press books in Books in Print.
So we went there and, surprisingly, upon arrival, the security checked our tickets in a rush and let us all in through the first gate of security.
I righted myself in time to approach the second gate but slipped again, this time shattering a frozen orange pylon while trying to steer in the direction of the skid, which is difficult, I discovered, when the car is going backward.
Although Mr. Polanski will be missing from the galas, he still continues to get support from other celebrities, the most recent being the actor Johnny Depp, who was directed by Mr. Polanski in "The Ninth Gate".
In "The Ninth Gate," Satan can be summoned only with secret incantations recited in the right order -- placing the film at odds with all the movies in which he roams around at will.
The Swiss turned wide well before the gate — going early as ski racers say — and hugging close to the first gate in the right-hand turn.
A stone monument honoring Nakamura was placed in the castle complex within the first gate, the Diamond Gate.
To their delight, a judge signed a letter ordering Sheik Aboughreis's release in July, and he walked out the first gate of his prison.
The siege of Thebes is brilliantly rendered in a single verse: "Seven gates / and in each gate a man / and in each man a death / at the seventh gate".
