Tag: Roman Polanski

In hindsight I was never going to get any of it right. Predicting festival awards is in itself an exercise ...

The first question people asked me when the Harvey Weinstein story broke was whether the Academy was prepared to start ...

When Venus in Fur was nominated for a Tony Award and won a slew of NY awards including a Tony ...

It seems to me Manohla Dargis' argument for being able to separate the work from the dumb things Lars Von ...

(Top: Spielberg, Scorsese, De Palma, Lucas, and Coppola, 1994. Bottom: Hooper, Russel, Aronofsy, Nolan, and Fincher, 2010) Last year's slate ...

Not quite sure why they're giving away some of the best parts but they must know what they're doing. This ...

Sunset Gun's Kim Morgan writes up a nice appreciation for Roman Polanski on his birthday and then lists her favorite ...

Thanks to Kevin for the link to these first images from the film, available at Empire. In an interview with ...

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS A BIG SPOILER In Contention's Guy Lodge reports that the FIPRESCI has chosen Roman Polanski's brilliant ...

How do we start talking about Roman Polanski? His most recent film, The Ghost Writer, was upstaged and rendered obsolete ...

Dave Itzkoff at The New York Times has the best and briefest explanation of the Swiss decision: The justice ministry ...

From the BBC: The Turkish film, Bal (Honey), was the surprise winner of the coveted Golden Bear for best picture ...

THR: Roman Polanski is a filmmaker who could envelop an old lady's stroll along a boulevard with a sense of ...

I found Anne Thompson's latest indiewire post intriguing, especially in light of the recent spate of Jew hate popping up ...

Jim Emerson on the Polanski case: What I found most provocative and disturbing about "Wanted and Desired," though, was its ...

Those are a few of the names on the Petition for Roman Polanski, spotlighting the precise reason this incident is ...

I was sorry to see this all dredged back up again. This site fell into the same trap back when ...

Debra Winger, Jury member for the Zurich Film Fest had this to say: The American thesp criticized Swiss authorities for ...

Slow crime day in Zurich? Academy-Award winning director Roman Polanski was taken into custody in Switzerland Saturday on a 31-year-old ...

It's finally here. Into the doldrums of pre-summer comes a white hot Oscar prospect. Polanski: Wanted and Desired (which really ...