LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | yesterday
12:45am PST - Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967) - A bumbling professor tracks vampires in the wilds of Eastern Europe. Cast: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate. Dir: Roman Polanski. C-108 mins, TV-MA Thanks to Reader Bryan for the heads up. I completely missed this. Bryan writes: I don't know if you've ever seen it but Roman [...]
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
You'd think Roman Polanski announced he was returning to the United States, with the way the media has jumped on this "Angelina Jolie confirms she's having twins" story out of Cannes. Check out the infamous segment from NBC's Today show, in which (not surprisingly, I know) the American public has a missed opportunity to understand what's going on at the...
Death Wore a Feathered Mullet (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... an alleged drug user and 15-year-old-girl dater, are there also rooms with Timothy Leary and Roman Polanski memorabilia? That night I went to Margaritaville and drank like it was my job. I vaguely remember being very friendly to strangers, so I must have been drunk. I then wandered around the Strip in a drunken stupor until I decided it was time to go to bed. The next morning, after...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... few British films at this year's Cannes, a documentary about Liverpool by auteur Terence Davies.Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Marina Zenovich's documentary about the notorious director, which played well at Sundance.Better Things There is good word of mouth already for Duane Hopkins' debut, which will screen in critics' week.Hunger Turner prize-winning artist Steve McQueen takes...
Strange Horizons Reviews (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The body of the book consists of brief biographical sketches of a number of movie characters, outlining their lives beyond the bounds of the films we know them from. The films are almost all U.S.-set and -made, and most are from the period between 1940 and 1980. So, for instance, in the first entry we learn about Jake Gittes—Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974). He was...
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... 8, 2008 — JEFFREY Epstein, who made a trip to Israel last month, thought about staying there, as Roman Polanski did in France, rather than face trial and possibly jail on charges of soliciting sex from prostitutes. But the money manager came home. "Would you want to live in Israel?" he asked Vanity Fair's Vicky Ward yesterday. At the screening the night before of HBO's documentary...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
... Works! Upcoming Henson Biopic Not Written by Fozzie Bear Sundance Buzz: The Weinstein Co. Picks Up Roman Polanski Doc I’m Not There I’m Not There I’m Not There I’m Not There
StyleCritics (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... of gruesome murders including that of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the then-wife of director Roman Polanski. He is now 73 and serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in jail. Nancy Pitman - who was known as Brenda when she was part of the 'Manson Family', the nickname given to his followers - ran away from her wealthy family home in Malibu, California, at the age of 16 to...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... whose fashions have inspired their own creations. n www.fashioninfilm.com John Rocha: Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) One of the all-time great movies on every level. I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women – even very beautiful ones. I love the film-noir look and Jack Nicholson, as Jake (above), embodies that in this film. He is super-...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
UTA sold “Choke” for $5 million and “Phoebe in Wonderland” (with Endeavor) for $3 million; “Sleep Dealer” and “American Son” went to Maya Releasing and Starz/Miramax, respectively, for more modest sums. Endeavor brought six films and sold five, with the sixth deal said to be imminent. Smaller agencies, like Submarine’s Josh Braun, teamed with bigger firms on sales like “Roman Polanski:...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... of gruesome murders including that of pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the then-wife of director Roman Polanski. He is now 73 and serving a life sentence for first-degree murder in jail. Nancy Pitman - who was known as Brenda when she was part of the ‘Manson Family', the nickname given to his followers - ran away from her wealthy family home in Malibu, California, at the age of 16 to...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
"I have a 12-year-old daughter. If some 35-year-old director was banging her, I'd want more of a punishment for him - although 30 years of living with Parisians is punishment enough, right?" ALEC BALDWIN on fugitive filmmaker ROMAN POLANSKI - who has lived in exile in France for 31 years, after pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Defamer (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The curious path of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired took another bizarre turn this week when HBO hosted an actual red-carpet "premiere" for the film in New York — the same...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Samantha Geimer Photo: Getty Images Big names like Dustin Hoffman and Sidney Lumet came out for Tuesday's premiere of the new HBO documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired , which details the questionable judicial dealings that led to the director's now 30-year exile in France. But the surprise guest of the night was Samantha Geimer, the woman with whom Polanski had "unlawful...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
ROMAN POLANSKI's underage sex assault victim SAMANTHA GEIMER has come to terms with the fugitive filmmaker's crime - insisting she's "so over it". French-born Polanski ...
