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BEFORE JACK WENT NUTS: Stop by the Ritz East for the Philadelphia Film Society's screening of the classic film "Chinatown." Roman Polanski's 1974 film stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in tale about a P.I. investigating murder and corruption.

Beatty was one of the A-listers who stumped up cash in a bid to try and hunt down the killers of his pal Roman Polanski's pregnant wife Sharon Tate, who was slaughtered at her Los Angeles home by members of the Manson clan in 1969.

Caption: Warren Beatty Target presents AFI Night at the Movies held at Arclight Theatre Hollywood, California .... BEATTY LIKENS MANSON MURDERS TO 'NUCLEAR DEVICE' WARREN BEATTY was terrified when the notorious CHARLES MANSON murders swept California in the 1960s - he compares the killing spree to a nuclear bomb attack.

Roman Polanski's disgraceful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's ungraceful novel, Tess of the D'urbervilles -- disgraceful not because it mangles the original , but because it creates nothing of its own.

There will be a screening of two original dance shorts created during last year's TaskForce USA - Kid Galahad Karaoke and Chinatown: Watermark plus a short documentary on the project in America, footage from the Plymouth rehearsals and a question and answer session with Stephan Koplowitz.

About 30 years ago I had an interesting conversation with a Frenchman who insisted that while Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby was perfectly believable, his The Tenant was simply preposterous.

Just weeks after his sentencing for the murder of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, it was strange, sad and eerie to see Phil Spector's flamboyant, bewigged and bizarrely charming figure up there on the big screen.

The Fearless Vampire Killers Ken Hanke 06/03/2009 Genre: Horror/Comedy Directed by: Roman Polanski Starring: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Iain Quarrier There are times when I think Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers is the filmmaker's finest work.

Drag Me to Hell , Sam Raimi's delirious psych-out of a horror film, is a candy-colored ghouls-gone-wild nightmare that treats every shock as a joke - or, at least, as an invitation to crack up at your own gullibility.

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May 7, 2009 2:49 pm US/Eastern Film director Roman Polanski is known as much for his tumultuous personal life as he is his films.

Attorney Chad Hummel argued in a court document that Polanski's personal appearance in court is irrelevant to the question of whether judicial and prosecutorial misconduct violated his constitutional rights.

In February, more than three decades after movie director Roman Polanski decided the judge in a child sex case was giving him a raw deal and fled to France, another Los Angeles judge extended an olive branch.

By SANDRA DICK BUDDHIST nun Ani Rinchen Khandro is having a bit of a wardrobe crisis.

Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carole, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend JULY TITLES FROM THE CRITERION COLLECTION Repulsion Roman Polanski followed up his international ...

Recommended Code Red has released Roman Polanski's "lost masterpiece" , A Day at the Beach , the 1970 adaptation of Heere Heeresma's 1962 novel about a day in the life of a spiraling-down alcoholic .

I tipped a DVD into the player without even glancing at the label then stretched out on the couch, ready for a little midweek diversion: 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.' The 2008 documentary about the Oscar-winning film director 'explores the tumultuous events of his personal life, including the murder of his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, and ...

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LOS ANGELES - Wild-eyed mass murderer Charles Manson is now an elderly inmate with gaunt cheeks, white hair and a dead stare.

A new photograph of Charles Manson , who along with other members of his so-called 'family' was convicted of killing Roman Polanski 's actress wife Sharon Tate in a bloody rampage in Los Angeles in 1969, has been released.