Tony Blair Articles
THE GHOST WRITER's European Film Awards Victory: A Political Message?
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 [...]
Roman Polanski Named Best Director at Berlin Film Festival
Roman Polanski, in the news since his arrest in Switzerland last September and currently fighting extradition to the United States, received the Silver Bear for Best Director for the political thriller The Ghost Writer. In The Ghost Writer, Ewan McGregor has the title role, becoming involved with a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan, above, based on Tony Blair), who has more than a few [...]
Roman Polanski's THE GHOST WRITER to Premiere at Berlin 2010
According to The Guardian, Roman Polanski's latest effort, The Ghost Writer, will have its premiere in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place February 11-21. Based on the International Thriller Writers' Award-winning novel The Ghost by Robert Harris (who also penned the screenplay), The Ghost Writer was shot at Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin and was finished by Polanski while in prison [...]
Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize Speech
"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them," said British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, 75, during his Literature Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wed., Dec. 7. "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. [...]