Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Articles

Ewan McGregor in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer Roman Polanski Set Free A French-Polish national, Roman Polanski has been living in France — which doesn't extradite its citizens — since the late '70s. He has also visited Switzerland numerous times in the last three decades, unmolested by either Swiss or American authorities, and even bought a house there several years ago. Some have asserted that [...]

Roman Polanski, 76, the Oscar-winning director currently under house arrest in Switzerland, has issued a statement circulated by his friend Bernard-Henri Lévy, publisher of the French film magazine La Règle du Jeu. In his statement, Polanski accuses Los Angeles district attorney Steve Cooley, currently "campaigning for election," of seeking publicity at his expense. [Roman Polanski's full statement.] Polanski adds that he has spent time in [...]

This evening, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will be screening Henri-Georges Clouzot's (right) modernized version of Manon (1949) at 5 p.m., and, at 7:30 p.m., Marina Zenovich's now much-discussed documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008), about the circus surrounding the legal (and at times apparently illegal) maneuverings throughout Roman Polanski's trial for having sex with a minor in the late 1970s. Admission is free. I'm [...]

Actor Gael García Bernal, Academy Award-winning actress Penélope Cruz, veteran director Mario Monicelli, veteran screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr, and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Ethan Coen are a few of the latest additions to the list of signatories demanding freedom for filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held by Swiss authorities. Among the other new signatories of the petition organized by France’s Société des Auteurs [...]