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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Roman Polanski</title>
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		<title>MANON, ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AN DESIRED Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/manon-roman-polanski-wanted-an-desired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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This evening, UCLA&#8217;s James Bridges Theater will be screening Henri-Georges Clouzot&#8217;s (right) modernized version of Manon (1949) at 5 p.m., and, at 7:30 p.m., Marina Zenovich&#8217;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&#8217;s trial for having sex with a minor in the late 1970s. Admission is free.
I&#8217;m assuming that Wanted and Desired will be packed. So, be ready to stand in line. Also, it should be noted that one of the prosecutors in the case, David Wells, has just recently recanted the story he told Zenovich, which revealed unethical behavior on the part of the judge assigned to Polanski&#8217;s case. Wells now says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penélope Cruz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gael García Bernal Sign Polanski Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/penelope-cruz-bertolucci-bernal-polanski-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD) are: 
Author Ariel Dorfman; actor-screenwriter Buck Henry; composer Vangelis; actors Sylvia Kristel and  Anne Consigny; filmmakers Fatih Akin, Juan Antonio Bayona, Djamel Bennecib, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Alain Berliner, Guillermo del Toro, Michel Deville, Sam Gabarski, Diane Kurys, Tonie Marshall, Brett Ratner, and  Jerry Schatzberg; World Cinema Foundation director Kent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Mike Nichols Sign Another &#8220;Free Polanski&#8221; Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/adjani-huppert-rushdie-roman-polanski-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Règle du jeu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;s release. Lévy&#8217;s petition reads:

Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he  came to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch Sign Roman Polanski Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/allen-lynch-scorsese-roman-polanski-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Terry Gilliam have added their names to the petition, organized by France&#8217;s Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD), demanding the release of Palme d&#8217;Or and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently in the custody of Swiss authorities. 
In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory rape (sex with a minor) of  13-year-old Samantha Gailey (now Geimer), whom he allegedly drugged before having sex with her against her will. Polanski, who at the time claimed that the sex was consensual and that he was led to believe that the 13-year-old was 18, reportedly fled the United States upon learning, after spending 42 days in prison, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition for Roman Polanski Signatories</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/petition-for-roman-polanski-signatories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/politics/petition-for-roman-polanski-signatories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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List of individuals who have signed (as of Oct. 7) the &#8220;Free Roman Polanski&#8221; petition organized by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD):
Michael A. Russ Erika Abrams, Fatih Akin, Yves Alberty, Stephane Allagnon, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Gianni Amelio, Greta Amend, Wess Anderson, Michel Andrieu, Roger Andrieux, Pascale Angelini, Yannick Angelloznicoud Jean-Jacques Annaud, Tomas Arana, Frédéric Aranzueque-Arrieta, Alexandre Arcady, Fanny Ardant, Asia Argento, Marie-Hélène Arnau, Stéphane Arnoux, Darren Aronofsky, Olivier Assayas, Alexander Astruc, Simone Audissou, Gabriel Auer, Zdzicho Augustyniak, Alexandre Babel, Vladimir Bagrianski, Lubomila Bakardi, Fausto Nicolás Balbi, Eleonor Baldwin, Jean-François Balmer, Alberto Barbera (Museo nazionale de Torino), Sylvie Bardet-Borel, Luc Barnier, Christophe Barratier, Ernest Barteldes, Carmen Bartl, Pascal Batigne, Anne Baudry, Henning Bauer, Tone Bay  Juan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski Petition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-petition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-petition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran filmmakers Marco Bellocchio, Wim Wenders, and Claude Lelouch;  Oscar winners Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Pedro Almodóvar; the French Film Academy; the Cannes Film Festival; and hundreds of other individuals and organizations have signed a petition demanding the release of Roman Polanski, who was arrested by Swiss police &#8212; at the behest of the American Justice Department &#8212; following his arrival at the Zurich airport on Sept. 26. Polanski was headed to the Zurich Film Festival, where he was to have received a Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1978, Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful intercourse with a minor (13-year-old Samantha Gailey, now Geimer) at a Los Angeles court, but fled to France before he could be sentenced. His court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski: Lifetime Achievement Ceremony to Proceed</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/roman-polanski-zurich-film-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Zurich Film Festival, which runs until Oct. 4, has released the following statement following the arrest of the festival&#8217;s Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Roman Polanski:
&#34;The planned &#8216;A Tribute to &#8230;&#8217; Award ceremony for film maker Roman Polanski will go ahead in his absence. Roman Polanski, one of the greatest film directors of our time would have received an award for his life&#8217;s achievement at the Zurich Film Festival. However, he was detained by the police upon his entry at Zurich Airport. His detention is linked to the demand by US-authorities to a warrant for his arrest in 1978.
&#34;The festival directors have received this news with great consternation and shock. They have decided that the &#8216;A Tribute to &#8230; Roman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski Arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/roman-polanski-arrested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roman Polanski, who won a best director Oscar for the Holocaust drama The Pianist in 2003, was arrested at the Zurich airport last night. According to reports, the 76-year-old filmmaker could face extradition to the United States for charges of having sex with a minor in the late 1970s.
Polanski, who was in Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, was apparently arrested at the behest of the U.S. Justice  Department, following a lead from the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. He would be held until a decision was made regarding his extradition to the US.
In 1977, Polanski was accused of using champagne and a Quaalude tablet to have sex with  a 13-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance 2008: Roman Polanski, Eduardo Noriega, Gay Zombies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/roman-polanski-eduardo-noriega-gay-zombies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Variety&#8217;s Justin Chang on The Great Buck Howard:
&#34;A smoothly turned-out entertainment centered around an Amazing Kreskin-style mentalist comes down with an unfortunate case of the warm-and-fuzzies in The Great Buck Howard. Behind-the-curtains comedy reps an amusing showcase for John Malkovich&#8217;s diva-like theatrics in the title role, but writer-director Sean McGinly&#8217;s decision to frame the story as a relationship movie, as Buck&#8217;s impressionable young assistant deals with some very familiar life issues, tilts the comic seesaw toward sentiment over satire.&#34;
Also in the cast are Colin Hanks (co-producer&#8217;s Tom Hanks&#8216; son),  Emily Blunt, and Steve Zahn.
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Mary Milliken on Marina Zenovich&#8217;s Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired in Reuters/The Vancouver Sun:
&#34;Zenovich told Reuters her documentary does not apologize for the French-Polish director, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Answers #3, 4, 5</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-answers-3-4-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Answer No. 3
 John Huston (right), from Moulin Rouge  (1952) to Prizzi&#8217;s Honor (1985), a total of 33 years. 
In 1952, Huston lost  the Oscar to John Ford for The Quiet Man,  and in 1985 to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa. Huston, however, did win for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Roman Polanski comes in second, from Tess (1980) to The Pianist (2002), 22 years; and Joseph L. Mankiewicz in third, from 5 Fingers (1952) to Sleuth (1972), 20 years.
In fourth place, with a 19-year gap between nominations, it&#8217;s a tie: Otto Preminger, from Laura in 1944 to The Cardinal in 1963; and David Lean, from Doctor Zhivago in 1965 to A Passage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DGA vs. Academy Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-vs-academy-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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DGA vs. Academy Winners


Catherine Zeta Jones in Chicago (top); Adrien Brody in The Pianist (bottom)

Since its inception in 1948, 51 out of 59 winners of the Directors Guild Award have gone on to win the best director Academy Award.
The eight exceptions are:
&#160;
1948
DGA &#8211; Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives*
  AA &#8211; John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Mankiewicz won the 1948 DGA for A Letter to Three Wives, as the award period extended into early 1949. He went on to win a 1949 Oscar for that film.
&#160;
1949
DGA &#8211; Robert Rossen for All the King&#8217;s Men
  AA &#8211; Joseph L. Mankiewicz for A Letter to Three Wives (see above)
&#160;
1968 
DGA &#8211; Anthony Harvey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 European Film Awards Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2006-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/european-film-awards-2006-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The European Film Academy, whose awards ceremony was held this evening in Warsaw, has opted for conventionality by giving its best European film award to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck&#8217;s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a Cold War spy-thriller-cum-melodrama lacking both thrills and drama. 
Additionally, The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe (above, top photo), the one saving grace in the film, received the best European actor award for his role as a Stasi spy who, while eavesdropping on a playwright in the mid-1980s, begins to question both his personal ethics and his allegiance to the Communist Party. In real life, Mühe, a  renowned stage actor since the 1980s, was himself spied on by East Germany&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar&#8217;s Comeback Nominees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Actors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Alda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellen Burstyn]]></category>
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Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream (top); Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody in The Pianist (middle); Diane Lane in Unfaithful (bottom)

Since the 1960s, nearly every year has had at least one Oscar comeback in the acting/directing categories. Some were veterans getting their first chance at the Oscars;  others were Oscar veterans getting their first nod in years. 
Below  are a few examples in the last 10 years. As per this list, Oscar&#8217;s comeback veterans  hardly ever win.



2005
 William Hurt, nominated as best supporting actor for A History of Violence.  Hurt has three previous best actor nominations;   the last one in 1987 was for Broadcast News. He  won in 1985 for  Kiss of [...]]]></description>
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