Samantha Geimer Articles

Roman Polanski is free to go where he wishes in Switzerland (and in France, Poland and several other countries). Samantha Geimer wishes him to be free to go where he pleases. As Samantha Gailey, Geimer testified in a Grand Jury hearing in the late '70s that Polanski drugged and raped her at Jack Nicholson's Hollywood Hills house in 1977. But now she has called on [...]

Roman Polanski, 76, will not be extradited to the United States following a decision by the Swiss Justice Ministry. In September 2009, Polanski — among whose efforts are Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Tess, and The Pianist — was arrested upon arrival in Zurich, where he was to receive a career honor at the Zurich Film Festival. He was wanted in the US [...]

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 [...]