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Polanski: The Highs and Lows -
30 January 2012
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-Here he comes again: Roman Polanski has a new film out this week, and although he hasn’t set foot in the United States since he fled from a prison term on ch
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Winslet thrilled to star in Polanski movie -
2 September 2011
-Kate Winslet jumped at the chance to star in Roman Polanski's new comedy Carnage - because she's always been a fan of the legendary director.-The movie, based on the hit Broadway play God of Carnage, stars Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz as tw
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Polanski shuns Venice Film Festival -
1 September 2011
-Roman Polanski has turned down an invitation to the Venice Film Festival, where his new movie Carnage will have its world premiere.-The moviemaker worked on the script for Carnage, an adaptation of the comedy play God of Carnage, during his house arrest in Switzerland
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Roman Polanski - filmography
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Carnage
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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A drama follows the story of two couples (Foster and Reilly, Winslet and Waltz) who come together one evening to discuss the behaviour of their children, only for things to quickly become heated...
Carnage is based on Yasmina Rezas Tony Award-winning drama.
 
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Carnage - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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A drama follows the story of two couples (Foster and Reilly, Winslet and Waltz) who come together one evening to discuss the behaviour of their children, only for things to quickly become heated...
Carnage is based on Yasmina Rezas Tony Award-winning drama.
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from 13 members
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The Ghost
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams
Director: Roman Polanski
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A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
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from 36,024 members
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Rush Hour 3
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Vinnie Jones
Director: Brett Ratner
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While in Paris, Chief Inspector Lee's (Jackie Chan) latest assignment is to escort and to protect Chinese Ambassador Han as he delivers a major address before the World Criminal Court Summit in Los Angeles. While delivering his announcement, he is shot and nearly killed. Meanwhile, former LAPD ..read more »
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Oliver Twist
(2005)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark
Director: Roman Polanski
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Acclaimed director Roman Polanski turns a dark eye toward the classic Charles Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST, about a charming orphan boy (Barney Clark) whose life seems to depend solely on the whims of fate. Abandoned early in life, Oliver first seems doomed to life in a workhouse, where he is farmed ..read more »
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from 18,720 members
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The Pianist
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
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from 47,147 members
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The Pianist - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
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from 1,285 member
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The Pianist - HD
(2002)
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Director: Roman Polanski
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Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
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from 614 members
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The Ninth Gate
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (THE CLUB DUMAS) and coscripted by director Roman Polanski, THE NINTH GATE was Polanski's first feature after a long break following the release of 1995's DEATH AND THE MAIDEN--in between, there was an aborted project that faltered when designated star John ..read more »
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from 10,097 members
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A Pure Formality
(1994)
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Two legendary screen talents go head-to-head in this intriguing, utterly original psychological thriller, described by one critic as "Colombo meets Kafka." Gerard Depardieu stars as Onaff, a famed French novelist who is arrested in a small provincial town when he is found breathless and ..read more »
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from 612 members
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Back In The USSR
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Frank Whaley, Natalya Negoda, Roman Polanski
Director: Deran Sarafian
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When a young American in Moscow meets a sultry beauty with an attitude, his Russian tour turns unexpectedly chaotic. Apparently, the beauty has stolen a priceless work of art, and as events spin out of control, the tourist finds himself without a passport, accused of murder, hunted by police, and ..read more »
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Bitter Moon
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant
Director: Roman Polanski
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On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle ..read more »
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from 2,265 members
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Frantic
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney
Director: Roman Polanski
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Following the disastrous Pirates (1986), director Roman Polanski got back on creative track with this finely-wrought thriller that, while failing to impress at the box office, was nevertheless his most critically well-received film of the decade. Harrison Ford stars as Richard Walker, an American ..read more »
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from 3,912 members
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Pirates
(1986)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Charlotte Lewis, David Kelly
Director: Roman Polanski
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Pirates follows the high seas adventures of the infamous British buccaneer pirate Red. Red and his first mate are shipwrecked and set adrift on a makeshift raft. On the verge of starvation, fate puts them in the path of a grand Spanish galleon, whose cargo includes the legendary Capatiec Hanoccac, ..read more »
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from 119 members
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Tess
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on Thomas Hardy's tragic 1891 novel TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, TESS follows the hard life of a beautiful young Wessex peasant girl, who seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives. Tess's tragic fate is sealed the moment the manipulative ..read more »
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous ..read more »
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from 2,132 members
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Chinatown
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
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from 27,492 members
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What?
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sydney Rome, Marcello Mastroianni, Hugh Griffith
Director: Roman Polanski
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More than three decades after its controversial release, it remains the most butchered, debated and least-seen film of the Oscar-winning director's entire career. What?, a surreal comedy based loosely on the story of Alice In Wonderland, follows the exploits of a young woman who tries to hitchhike ..read more »
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from 196 members
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Macbeth
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Francesca Annis
Director: Roman Polanski
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" - but the bodies keep piling up today, from the opening battle, to the beheading of the traitor Cawdor, to the - onscreen - murder of Duncan, to the electrifying final duel to the death (at each clash of metal on metal, and flesh on stone wall, Polanski cut a ..read more »
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The Magic Christian
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Peter Sellers, Laurence Harvey
Director: Joseph McGrath
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
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from 436 members
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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's first American film, adapted from Ira Levin's horror bestseller, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband, Guy (John Cassavetes), move into the Bramford, an old New York City ..read more »
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Jack MacGowran, Sharon Tate, Alfie Bass
Director: Roman Polanski
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A pair of bumbling vampire-hunters attempts to destroy an undead nobleman and his cronies and rescue a buxom maiden in actor/director Roman Polanski's playful update of the venerable vampire genre. Bat expert and vampire obsessive Professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) barely survives his journey ..read more »
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Cul-De-Sac
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander
Director: Roman Polanski
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A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and co-scripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac), living in an 11th-century castle on an isolated island whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run ..read more »
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Repulsion
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Director: Roman Polanski
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REPULSION, starring the incomparable Catherine Deneuve, was director Roman Polanski's first movie filmed in English. It chronicles the descent into schizophrenia of a sexually confused, isolated young woman named Carol who works at a beauty parlor and shares an apartment with her sister Helen (..read more »
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from 3,351 members
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Knife In The Water
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Director: Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski's first feature-length film is a suspenseful three-person chamber drama reminiscent of the work of Ingmar Bergman. The action takes place almost entirely within the confined setting of a sailboat owned by a wealthy journalist (Leon Niemczyk) and his much younger wife (Jolanta Umecka)...read more »
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Kanal
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Teresa Izewska
Director: Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Wajda
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Set in war-torn Warsaw during World War II, this drama tells the story of a group of soldiers and patriots attempting to flee the grasp of the Nazis by escaping through the city's maze of underground sewers.
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Roman Polanski facts
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...becomes quite baffling.
Nonetheless Frantic marks a major return to form for Roman Polanski, who only made one other film during his eighties exile, after major triumphs i...
