Roman Polanski
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Polanski working to finish latest film from jail...Minister Frederic Mitterrand, Weinstein Co. boss Harvey Weinstein and Festival de Cannes director Thierry Fremaux have called for Polanski's immediate release, while many pundits and commentators around the world are demanding he be sent... In this article: Roman Polanski, The Ghost, Robert Harris, Ewan McGregor, U.S., Berlin, Oscar, Festival de Cannes, and Berlin International Film Festival |
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Variety | January 19, 2008
Weinsteins nab 'Roman Polanski' rights
...Pictures Classics dropped out when the price got to high. Focus Features, which released Polanski's Oscar-winning "The Pianist," and Weinstein Co. are still in the domestic hunt. The doc market has been both glutted and underperforming of...
In this article: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Weinstein Co., Oscar, Sony Pictures Classics, Focus Features, Steven Soderbergh, and The Pianist
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L.A. Times - Entertainment News | October 01, 2009
In Roman Polanski case, is it Hollywood vs. Middle America?
In an opinion piece in London's the Independent, Weinstein Co. co-founder Harvey Weinstein, who is circulating the pro-Polanski petition, wrote: "Whatever you think about the so-called crime, Polanski has served his time. A deal was...
In this article: Hollywood, Harvey Weinstein, Whoopi Goldberg, Categorization, God, Oscar, and UCLA
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The Hollywood Reporter | September 28, 2009
Roman Polanski to fight extradition
...the extradition. During a visit to Paris on Monday, Swiss Economy Minister Doris Leuthard defended her country's actions, saying Switzerland had no choice but to enforce the international arrest warrant against Polanski. "The Americans...
In this article: Switzerland, U.S., Harvey Weinstein, Zurich Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, and Oscar
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Fox News | September 30, 2009
SNAP Boycotts Roman Polanski Supporters
U.S. authorities have 60 days to file a formal request for extradition with Swiss authorities. Polanski's lawyers have vowed to oppose it. Dozens in the film industry have called for Polanski's immediate release, including directors...
In this article: United States, Los Angeles, Self-help, Champagne, Zurich Film Festival, Quaalude, and Vogue
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The Huffington Post | September 30, 2009
Andy Ostroy: Why Robert Harris' NY Times Pro-Polanski Op-Ed Is an Offensive, Self-Serving Disgrace
...and Polanski When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them. Judge H. Lee...
In this article: Robert Harris, O.J. Simpson, Hollywood, NY Times, Wikipedia, Los Angeles, and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
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Yahoo! News | January 20, 2008
Polanski sex scandal film shakes up Sundance
...scandal film shakes up Sundance By Mary Milliken 13 minutes ago PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Thirty years after director Roman Polanski fled the United States and a conviction for unlawful sex with a minor, a U.S. filmmaker has reopened...
In this article: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Sundance, United States, Academy Award, The Pianist, Daily Variety, Sundance Film Festival, and Rosemary's Baby
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Roman Raymond Polanski (Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a French-born and resident Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films. Polanski's first feature-length film, Knife in the Water (1962), made in Poland, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has since received five more Oscar nominations, and in 2002 received the Academy Award for Best Director for his film, The Pianist. He has also been the recipient of two Baftas, four Césars, a Golden Globe and the Palme d'Or. He left the People's Republic of Poland in 1961 to live in France for several years, then moved to Britain, where he collaborated with Gérard Brach on three films, beginning with Repulsion (1965). In 1968 he moved to the United States, immediately cementing his burgeoning directing status with the 1968 groundbreaking Academy Award winning horror film Rosemary's Baby.
Despite his reputation as a major Polish filmmaker, Polanski left then-communist Poland and moved to France, where he had already made two notable short films in 1961: The Fat and the Lean and Mammals. While in France, Polanski contributed one segment ("La rivière de diamants") to the French-produced omnibus film, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (English title: The Beautiful Swindlers) in 1964. However, Polanski found that in the early 1960s the French film industry was generally unwilling to support a rising filmmaker whom they viewed as a cultural Pole and not a Frenchman. So he soon left France to find new opportunities and financial backing in England.
- Name At Birth:
- Rajmund Roman Thierry Polański
- Birth Date:
- August 18, 1933
- Birthplace:
- Paris, France
- Spouse:
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- Sharon Tate (1968–1969)
- Emmanuelle Seigner
- Barbara Lass(1959–1962)
- Occupation:
- Actor, director, producer, screenwriter
- Years Active:
- 1953–present
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