Roman Polanski’s film An Officer and a Spy is to receive its UK premiere, five years after winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and despite being frozen out of the UK and American ...

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The film grossed over $26K, averaging $13,100 per screen, kicking off a platform release; it will be distributed to the top 15 markets throughout July. The French language film stars Emmanuelle ...

A mesmerizing portrait of the director as acclaimed artist and tortured human being. On Feb. 1, 1978, Polanski boarded a plane from Los Angeles to France (where he remains to this day), eluding ...

Roman Polanski’s “J’accuse” will compete at this year’s Venice Film Festival, organizers said in a statement Thursday. Polanski, the Polish-born filmmaker who won the Oscar for best director in 2003 ...

Tragedy is the stuff of great drama, but in the world of cinema it is usually given short shrift. Most of the time, Hollywood has a clear preference for happy endings. Filmmakers may tease a sad or ...

Roman Polanski's latest directorial effort Carnage will make its North American premiere at this year's New York Film Festival. The comedy-drama, adapted from the 2009 Tony Award-winning play God of ...

The whole ‘art vs artist’ debate doesn’t really have a definitive answer; it’s about how comfortable you are personally with praising the work of an objectively questionable individual. Zoë Kravitz is ...

Roman Polanski's The Pianist has won the prestigious Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival. The story of Roman Polanski's life has been tortuous and full of incident and tragedy as one of his ...

(Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge on Friday rejected a request by fugitive film director Roman Polanski to be sentenced in absentia for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. Here are some facts ...