Roman Polanski
Author of The Pianist [2002 film]
About the Author
The French-born Polish actor and director Roman Polanski survived one of the darkest events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust. At the age of 8, he was interned in a German concentration camp, where his mother died. He later attended the Polish Film School and, with his film noir Knife in the show more Water (1962), helped establish the reputation of Polish cinema abroad. Polanski's vision is of an unstable world of violence, sexual frustration, unconscious impulses, and destructive psychoses. Repulsion (1965), his first feature in the West, and the chilling Rosemary's Baby (1968), about satanic possession in New York City, marked him as a filmmaker who was unafraid to confront evil. He was forced to confront evil in his personal life once again when his wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered in 1969 by the satanic Charles Manson cult in one of California's most sensational slayings. The horror of this experience informs his filmed version of Shakespeare's Macbeth (1972). Of his later films, Chinatown (1974), the story of a private investigator's discovery of twisted relationships in the wealthy family that has hired him, was well received, as was Tess (1981), Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Roman Polanski
The 1960's - The Criterion Collection — Director — 4 copies
Double Feature: The Final Cut / The Ninth Gate — Director — 2 copies
El pianista (3 DVD) 1 copy
Rear Window/ Chinatown/ Robert Motherwell: The New York School — Director — 1 copy
Mary Reilly [screenplay] 1 copy
LA SEMILLA DEL DIABLO 1 copy
J'accuse-intrige 🎥 1 copy
Zemsta 1 copy
Stasera "Macbeth" 1 copy
Harrison Ford Box Set: The Fugitive / Frantic / Presumed Innocent — Director — 1 copy
Roman Polanski: 8 Shorts 1 copy
Roman Polanski 1 copy
Associated Works
Fear #16 — Article About — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Polanski, Roman
- Legal name
- Polański, Rajmund Roman Thierry (birth)
- Other names
- POLAŃSKI, Raimund Roman Thierry
POLANSKI, Roman
POLANSKI, Raimund Roman Thierry
POLAŃSKI, Roman - Birthdate
- 1933-08-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
Poland - Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Occupations
- film director
film producer
film writer
actor - Relationships
- Ligocka, Roma (cousin)
Seigner, Emmanuelle (wife)
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Reviews
Oliver Twist [DVD] by Ben Kingsley
Other versions have some outstanding aspects, but this one assembles a faithful, vividly beautiful package honoring the essentials.
Considering she was so inexperienced at the time of filming, Kinski does well enough as the tragic heroine, although at times a little more emotion might have been good. She always preserves a feeling of apartness and difference from her peers, which is important. Generally able support from the rest of the cast, including a small role for Suzanna Hamilton as Izzy, the lovelorn milkmaid whom Angel ought to have married. Peter Firth makes a believable Angel Clare, torn apart by conflicting beliefs. All too obvious (especially from the buildings) that the film was made in France rather than England for legal reasons, but the rural atmosphere is still captured beautifully. Costuming is quietly authentic.… (more)
A man loses his mind after moving into a dead woman's apartment.
1/4 (Bad).
I don't get it. It's like a bunch of film students watched Rosemary's Baby and thought, "Hey, we could do that."
1/4 (Bad).
I don't get it. It's like a bunch of film students watched Rosemary's Baby and thought, "Hey, we could do that."
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- Popularity
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- Rating
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