Hot on the heels of winning an Oscar for “The Pianist,” Roman Polanski is getting a three-weekend retrospective at the American Museum of the Moving Image.

The tribute includes “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), “Chinatown” (1974) and “Repulsion” (1965), plus several more-obsure items.

One is “The Tenant” (1976), which unspools June 28.

Polanski plays a Polish emigre who rents a gloomy Paris apartment. The previous tenant (Isabelle Adjani) is lying in a hospital after jumping out the window in a failed suicide.

Pretty soon, Polanski is wearing dresses and jumping out the window. When the fall doesn’t kill him, he gets back up and dives a second time.

Shelley Winters and Melvin Douglas provide support and Bergman fave Sven Nykvist is the cinematographer.

The fest runs this weekend through June 29.

AMMI is at 35th Avenue and 36th Street in Astoria, Queens; http://www.movingimage.us.

* The New Filmmakers series, each Wednesday at Anthology Film Archives, is a good way for struggling directors to get their work out there.

This week at 8:30 p.m.: “A Simple Midwest Story, written and directed by 18-year-old Blake Eckard.

It’s described as “the tale of the Flems brothers and how they, along with their blundering cousin, murdered three people in three days on two separate farms in two separate states.”

“Simple” will be preceded at 6 p.m. by Josh Koury’s “Standing by Yourself, a documentary about two young social misfits in upstate New York, and at 7 p.m. by shorts dealing with other troubled kids.

The Anthology is at Second Avenue and Second Street; http://www.newfilmmakers.com.

* Some Asian directors are getting $60,000 each from the Hong Kong government to come up with short films, no more than five minutes each, dealing with the SARS virus.

The helmers include Fruit Chan, Wong Kar-wai and Johnny To.

Their efforts will premier in July in HK. No word yet on possible screenings in the United States.

* And now, this week’s must-see movie: “Pistol Opera.

Eighty-year-old Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most notorious filmmakers, takes us on a bloody roller-coaster ride as an elegant hit woman named Stray Cat (played by leggy Makiko Esumi) shoots it out in her quest to become Japan’s No. 1 paid assassin.

It unreels daily at 9:45 p.m. at the Cinema Village (12th Street, east of Fifth Avenue).

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post. He can be e-mailed at vam@nypost.com.

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