MOVIE REVIEW: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A good documentary tells us something new about our world. A great documentary does it with an artistry that rivals the best fiction films.
Wanted And Desired
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‘Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A good documentary tells us something new about our world. A great documentary does it with an artistry that rivals the best fiction films.
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Book review: Polanski: A Biography
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
A sympathetic viewer tilts history in Roman Polanski's favor, but acknowledges faults besides the obvious.
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Christopher Sandford
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Until he won an Oscar for The Pianist , finally earning the respect he craved, Roman Polanski was known more for the scandals of his personal life. Also the director of Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby , and, ahem, Pirates , how should the 75-year-old fugitive from American justice ...
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WFF Review: ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
Twitch (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
If Marina Zenovich was looking for a controversial topic, she nailed it by doing a doc on the scandalous case that forced Roman Polanski to leave the United States for good. But instead on trying to find out what actually happened between the Polish filmmaker and 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1978, she focuses on the long and tiresome trial that followed. More than an exploration of a hot subject,...
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Roman Polanski, The Movie
Austinist (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Image from Alamo Drafthouse website Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Sunday, August 24; Tuesday, August 26; Wednesday, August 27 Alamo Drafthouse Downtown ( 320 E 6th Street ) $8.50, $6.50/students; 4 pm on Sunday; 9:45 on Tuesday and Wednesday [ info ] | [ tickets ] Roman Polanski: the original Creepy Joe? Any sympathy points the man may have racked up after his pregnant wife was murdered by the...
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'The Exiles' kicks off fall at DFT
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
A nearly forgotten film about American Indians as they try to make their way in L.A. opens a new season at the Detroit Film Theatre on the weekend of Sept. 19-21.
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Bill Maher's 'Religulous' Quietly Opens in NY, LA
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Filed under: Documentary , Lionsgate Films , Toronto International Film Festival As was the case with HBO's Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired , Lionsgate has very discreetly opened Bill Maher's Religulous in two theaters -- one in New York, the other in Los Angeles -- in an qualifying run for next year's Academy Awards. As pointed out by Jeff Wells over at Hollywood Elsewhere , the Academy's Rule...
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Religulous Qualifies
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
According to Jeff Wells, Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Borat-style religion doc Religulous is playing this week in Claremont, CA in order to meet the Academy’s rule stating that non-fiction films must screen for one week in a commercial theater in both New York and L.A. in order to qualify for a Best Documentary nomination. [...]
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Polanski @ 75.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Since Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired premiered at Sundance in January, then trickled in and out of a few theaters, hit a few more festivals and aired on HBO, debates on the tragedies, transgressions and triumphs in the life...
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Helen Thomas Goes Primetime: It's Not CSPAN ... It's HBO
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Tonight, HBO will air a documentary by Rory Kennedy about White House press room mainstay Helen Thomas called Thank You, Mr. President . While less sexy than other HBO fare such as Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal and probably less controversial than Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired , it promises to offer journalism buffs some insight into Ms. Thomas' incredible 47 year (and still going...
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The summer of our mega-discontent?
scanners (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Among my friends and neighbors the most-discussed movie of the summer has been "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired." I've heard tell that some other movies have opened, too, and I saw some of them. I saw "Speed Racer," but...
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'Roman Polanski' plays like a tight detective story
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The simple line on Roman Polanski is this: A great filmmaker, brought down after he has sex with an underage girl, flees the United States to avoid prison time and lives out his career in exile.
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"Polanski" film may help his case
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Will Roman Polanski be bailed out, finally, by a film?
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired offers first-rate reportage
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
When Roman Polanski fled America for France 30 years ago, on Feb. 1, 1978, it was an apparent case of a fugitive fleeing justice.
