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Roman Polanski News

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4 hrs ago | Hartford Courant

"Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired"

ROMAN POLANSKI was at the center of a press frenzy when charged with having sex with an underage girl.

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9 hrs ago | Hartford Courant

"Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired"

ROMAN POLANSKI was at the center of a press frenzy when charged with having sex with an underage girl.

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Related Topix: Sharon Tate, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Jul 25, 2008

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Courtroom Drama: Polanski documentary captures wanted man, desired filmmaker

In "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," the now-fabled filmmaker finds himself as the main character in a movie about his sordid criminal past.

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Thu Jul 24, 2008

National Post

Behind the veil of a scandal

A new documentary suggests that the judge in the 1977 rape trial of Roman Polanski was a controlling media hound with a grudge against the diminutive Polish-born filmmaker, seen at centre left.

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Wed Jul 23, 2008

Metroactive

Movie Review: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired'

The Sinful Dwarf A new documentary shows how the legal system went Hollywood when Roman Polanski went on trial By Richard von Busack ULTIMATELY, Roman Polanski's lawyer Douglas Dalton has the best comment in ...

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Tue Jul 22, 2008

Chicago Sun-Times

The rise and fall of Roman's empire

But Roman Polanski's "Pirates," the movie that used this ship as a prop and location, sank on launching at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

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Mon Jul 21, 2008

New York Post

Lou Reed's Berlin Thrall

LOU Reed dusts off his 1973 orchestral record "Berlin," about mangled love in a divided city, in a concert film directed by the painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.

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Sat Jul 19, 2008

WORLD Magazine

Low and mighty

The new documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired sets out to settle the score on director Roman Polanski's controversial 1977 rape trial.

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Thu Jul 17, 2008

HeraldTribune.com

Polanski Asks Prosecutor to Review Film's Claims

Will Roman Polanski be bailed out, finally, by a film? Mr. Polanski, the director of "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown," fled the United States 30 years ago on the eve of being sentenced for the statutory rape ...

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Tue Jul 15, 2008

News.com.au

Los Angeles: Manson gang murderer's plea protested

RELEASING a dying follower of Charles Manson from prison would be an "affront" to justice and families of the slain victims, prosecutor Steve Cooley said yesterday.

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Sat Jul 12, 2008

The Hindu

Polanski's The Pianist

This Sunday, Konangal Film Society brings Roman Polanski's The Pianist. The screening will begin at 5.45 p.m. at Ashwin Hospital auditorium.

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Fri Jul 11, 2008

IndieWIRE

Pondering Polanski in New Doc

In the wake of a small Oscar qualifying run this spring and then an HBO cable TV premiere last month, Marina Zenovich 's " Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired " officially opens in theaters this weekend.

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New York Daily News

Short Takes: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Documentary on the director's notorious 1977 statutory rape case. At the Quad . Unrated: Language.

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Thu Jul 10, 2008

A.V. Club

Film review: Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired

Reviewed by Noel Murray July 10th, 2008 Roman Polanski survived the Holocaust in Poland, became an international sensation with his offbeat suspense films, and lost his pregnant wife in an attack by the Manson ...

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Buzzle.com

Polanski Wins ?50,000 Libel Damages

Jurors rule against Vanity Fair over restaurant seduction claim. Roman Polanski, the Oscar-winning film director and fugitive from American justice, was awarded 50,000 in damages by a high court libel jury ...

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Wed Jul 09, 2008

The Village Voice

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired's Dizzying Leaps to Judgment

Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired grinds some blunt axes, makes dizzying leaps to judgment, and does a lot of silly editing with movie clips.

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Fri Jul 04, 2008

The Hindu

Doing justice to a creative genius

A friend of 74-year-old, Paris-based Hollywood filmmaker, Roman Polanski, once observed that "in U.S. he is wanted, in France he is desired." That sentence sums up the title of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: ...

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Wed Jul 02, 2008

Men's News Daily

The Manson File, reviewed by Denise Noe

To give this book a fair review, it is necessary to discuss some history because a generation has been born and reached middle age since the events that catapulted the subject of "The Manson File" into ...

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Mon Jun 30, 2008

Buzzsugar

Roman Polanski Film Gets Swinton, Brosnan, Cage

Roman Polanski's next project has brought on a recent Oscar winner, a man who portrayed James Bond, and.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama, Chinatown, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Tilda Swinton, Nicolas Cage

Sun Jun 29, 2008

Cinematical

Trailer Park: Tales To Horrify

I love a good horror flick, but it's rare that I can find five trailers with some kind of connection to horror worth talking about in a single week.

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