Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Mike Nichols Sign Another “Free Polanski” Petition
Actors Louis Garrel, Isabelle Adjani, Elsa Zylberstein, and Isabelle Huppert; filmmakers Danièle Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, and Mike Nichols; formerly persecuted writer Salman Rushdie; author Milan Kundera; and stylist Diane von Furstenberg are among those who have signed another petition demanding freedom for 76-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held at a Swiss prison while awaiting word from local authorities whether he’ll be extradited to the United States on a charge of having sex with a minor in the late 1970s.
In his journal, La Règle du jeu, writer Bernard-Henri Lévy has asked for signatures supporting Polanski’s release. Lévy’s petition reads:
Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he came to receive [...]
by Andre Soares | September 29, 2009
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Tags: Bernard-Henri Lévy, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, La Règle du jeu, Louis Garrel, Mike Nichols, Milan Kundera, Politics, Roman Polanski, Roman Polanski Petition, Salman Rushdie
CLOSER – Julia Roberts, Jude Law
Closer (2004)
Direction: Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Patrick Marber, from his 1997 play
Cast: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman
THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL DATE MOVIE
Mike Nichols‘ first feature film, an adaptation of Edward Albee’s acclaimed play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is a harrowing dissection of two married couples whose inner demons are let loose during a night of game playing, drinking, and screaming. That was nearly forty years ago. Fast forward to 2004 and to Nichols’ newest film adaptation of an acclaimed play, Patrick Marber’s Closer, another look at two dysfunctional heterosexual couples, this time in the age of cyberspace and AIDS.
On the surface, not much has changed since 1966: although the action has been stretched out from one night [...]
by Andre Soares | December 1, 2004
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Tags: Clive Owen, Closer, Film Reviews, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Mike Nichols, Natalie Portman, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Patrick Marber, Sex
