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Polanski undergoes medical treatment -
19 October 2009
-Director Roman Polanski has been removed from a Swiss prison for medical treatment.-
-The moviemaker, who fled to France in 1978 as he awaited sentencing for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, has been behind bars since he was arrested in Switzerland while attendi
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Polanski agreed to pay sex victim £333,300 -
4 October 2009
-Jailed moviemaker Roman Polanski agreed to pay the girl he had unlawful sex with £333,300 16 years ago, according to newly-released court documents. -
-Papers obtained by the Los Angeles Times newspaper suggest the director agreed to pay Samantha Geimer as part
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Polanski 'agreed to participate' in Ratner's documentary -
30 September 2009
-Roman Polanski has "agreed to participate" in Brett Ratner's forthcoming sequel to a controversial documentary about the Rosemary'S Baby director.-
-Ratner announced on Sunday (27Sep09) he will be producing a sequel to Marina Zenovich's 2008 documentary, Roman Polanski
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Roman Polanski - filmography
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(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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Pianist, The - HD DVD Version
(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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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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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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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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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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Frantic
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, John Mahoney
Director: Roman Polanski
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An American heart surgeon is thrust into the adventure of a lifetime when he arrives in Paris for a top convention and his wife vanishes. His search for her leads him into the underworld where he forges an alliance with a beautiful woman who holds the key to the mystery.
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Pirates
(1986)
Starring: Walter Matthau, Charlotte Lewis, David Kelly
Director: Roman Polanski
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Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his quick thinking, he rises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the daughter of the governor of ..read more »
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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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Trelkovsky (director Roman Polanski), a Polish immigrant residing in Paris, moves into an apartment vacated by a young woman who committed suicide by leaping out of her window. Upon moving in, Trelkovsky begins feeling that the woman's personality traits are being thrust upon him. At a local shop, ..read more »
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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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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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Macbeth
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw
Director: Roman Polanski
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Shakespeare's immortal play about a Scottish warrior (Jon Finch) whose wife's lust for power transforms him into inhuman monster is given it's rawest, most brutal screen treatment in this version by Roman Polanski (ROSEMARY'S BABY, CHINATOWN). Filmed in suitably bleak locales and imbued with nudity ..read more »
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Cul-De-Sac
on DVD
(1968)
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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Rosemary's Baby
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Director: Roman Polanski
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In Roman Polanski's stylish occult thriller--possibly the director's most famous film and a big box-office success--a young, happily married couple, the waiflike Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and struggling actor Guy (John Cassavetes), move into a spacious apartment in a venerable old building off Central ..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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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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Rosemary's Baby
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(1968)
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Director: Roman Polanski
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Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 136 minutes
Possibly the best horror film ever made, this brilliant adaptation of Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the story of a loving young New York City couple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-time mothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences confusion and fear. Her husband (John ..read more »
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Roman Polanski facts
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24 December 2003
...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...
What's so special about it 19 July 2004
depp magic 25 July 2004
