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A new BBC documentary argues - with agreement from both the defense and prosecuting attorneys - that the director's notorious trial for statutory rape was distorted by an ambitious judge. "It really isn't about whether Polanski is likeable or not. It's about whether he was treated fairly under California state law. And clearly he was not."...
Photo: Getty Images "I won't respond to that. That doesn't even deserve the dignity of a response. I don't know the details of that. It is absolutely ridiculous … This from the Guardian ? I don't believe it! It is insulting that you would even bring it up! My God … I turned down the Mail to do this!" — Faye Dunaway on the rumor that she threw a cup of urine in Roman Polanski's face when the director...
Roman Polanski knew what he was doing when he named his 1984 memoir Roman. Fortuitously, the word also means "novel" in French – the Polish film-maker was born in Paris – and his life has had the hectic fullness of a nightmare picaresque narrative. Polanski's mother died in Auschwitz; the young Roman escaped the Cracow ghetto, foraging to survive. Working in Poland and Britain, he made some of the...
Director Roman Polanski solidified his reputation as a new master of horror with this controversial shocker, based on Ira Levin’s suspenseful novel. Mia Farrow stars as a woman who becomes the victim of a devil-worshipping cult in New York City and she unwittingly finds herself bearing the child who has “his father’s eyes.” (Click below for the post and a larger video screen.)
I’m watching Death and the Maiden, which I was lucky enough to stumble upon on IFC. If you’ve never seen this taut Roman Polanski adaptation of Ariel Dorfman’s play about the poisonous corruption that permeates torturer and tortured under a police state, then you should. Right through to that final scene, where the trio of players [...]
During the 1990s, Death and the Maiden by the Chilean author, Ariel Dorfman, took Euro-American audiences by storm, powered by successful productions on Broadway and the West End, and by Roman Polanski's cinematization. Not surprisingly, we followed suit: Alyque Padamsee climbing on the bandwagon in 1993, Sara Zaker directing the Bangladeshi premiere in 1994 (both, admittedly, before Polanski) and...
Severin in the UK is set to release Roman Polanski's elusive What? , or Diary of Forbidden Dreams as it is sometimes known. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni and Sydne Rome. The disc streets on 20 October.
Last week's TV was the Seventies revisited. There was an attentive fly-on-the-wall documentary about a family, called The Family, just as there was in 1973. There was Tess of the D'Urbervilles being fed strawberries out of season, which can't help but make you think of Roman Polanski's Tess (1979), and there was the final episode of Grange Hill (irritating aspirational parents since 1978). There was...
News: Severin Films have announced the UK DVD release of What? on 20th October 2008 priced at £14.99 RRP. Roman Polanski described it as the ribald adventures of an innocent girl. Critics called it an amoral, depraved disaster. More than three decades...
Thanks to UK extradition laws, Roman Polanski had to substitute France for England in his adaptation of high-school lit standard, Thomas Hardy's Tess. I loved all three-hours of the film when I saw it back in 1980, but then again...
Film News: 'Ghost,' 'Bastards' to nab government funds -- Roman Polanski and Quentin Tarantino look set to receive financial backing from the German government for their upcoming productions, which are set to shoot in Germany in the coming weeks and months.
This is a scene from Roman Polański's Frantic (1988). Harrison Ford and his wife go for a romantic weekend in Paris, and she is kidnapped while he's taking a shower in their hotel room. We, the audience, are not omniscient. The director doesn't tell us where his wife is, he doesn't shoot any scenes where the movie villains unveil their wicked plan, there is no Die Hard hero with the full support of...
From The Washington Post: Now in his mid-70s, Roman Polanski seems finally to have slowed down a bit. He lives in France with his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, and their two children, to whom he apparently is devoted. According to Christopher...
It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since the magical season that restored the country’s faith in baseball. It’s even harder to believe that former slugger and national hero, Mark McGwire, pulled a Roman Polanski and has been virtually nonexistent since he left the game in 2001. Hall of Fame sportswriter, Rick [...]
