Robert Harris Articles

Roman Polanski on screen: European Film Awards 2010 (top); Pierce Brosnan as a Tony Blair-like former British prime minister in The Ghost Writer (bottom) Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER Sweeps European Film Awards 2010 Roman Polanski may be a wanted man in the United States, but as far as the European Film Academy is concerned Polanski is the director of the acclaimed mystery thriller The [...]

Ewan McGregor in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer The European Film Academy announced the 2010 European Film Award winners at a ceremony held this evening in Tallinn, Estonia. Not too surprisingly, The Ghost Writer was chosen as the Best European Film of 2010. The mystery drama starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall, also earned European Film Awards for director Roman Polanski, actor McGregor, [...]

Controversy sells. At least sometimes it does. Roman Polanski (above, lower photo), under house arrest in Switzerland while fighting extradition to the United States on charges of having had sexual intercourse with a minor in the late 1970s, was named Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival for The Ghost Writer, starring Ewan McGregor (above, top photo), Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Cattrall. This weekend, the [...]

Kim Cattrall, Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer The complete official program for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 11-21, has been announced. Twenty-six films will be screened, of which twenty will be vying for the Golden Bear. The other six entries will be screened out of competition. Among the films in competition, Roman Polanski's mystery thriller The Ghost Writer has attracted the [...]