Roman Polanski

She is the 13-year-old who was raped by the much garlanded film director, Roman Polanski. The rape occurred in 1977. The ensuing court case, which was dubbed the trial of the century at the time, led to a media feeding-frenzy. Now, over forty years later, it has erupted again. “I'm sex victim girl! That's my ...

Tarantino has also announced the film's title, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and the release date has been set as 9 August, 2019, on the 50th anniversary of the murders, in which the heavily pregnant Tate, then married to Roman Polanski, along with three friends and a visitor to the house's caretaker, ...

Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman says she regrets having signed a petition insisting that the Swiss release director Roman Polanski not be brought to the United States to face justice. “I very much regret it,” Portman, 36, recently said in an interview with BuzzFeed. “I take responsibility for not thinking ...

In a world exclusive interview with Hot Press (publication date Thursday Feb 21), Samantha Geimer – who was raped by the Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski when she was just 13-years of age – talks in detail about what happened; about her experience during the rape trial; and the way she ...

In a wide-ranging interview with BuzzFeed, the Oscar-winning actress, who has been heavily involved with the Time's Up initiative that combats sexual harassment in workplaces across industries, acknowledged a 2009 petition she signed in support of Roman Polanski, the European filmmaker who was ...

The Confessional Art of Louis C.K., Roman Polanski, and Aziz Ansari. When artists reveal their ... In light of recent revelations in connection with the #metoo movement, I've noticed something about the work of Aziz Ansari, as well as with Louis C.K. and even as far back a Roman Polanski. Knowing what we ...

In 2008, film-maker Marina Zenovich caught the mood and pushed it further with her documentary, the queasily titled Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which argued that Polanski was the victim of gross judicial misconduct during his case. (In one of those ironies we can only appreciate in retrospect, ...