Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power--a compound of rebel cheekiness, stylistic innovation and a tragicomic vision of media power--has never waned. It remains a work that seduces the young and inspires the old with thoughts of what the medium can achieve. RUNNERS-UP Day for Night by Francois Truffaut; Chinatown by Roman Polanski...
...Judgment Day and Total Recall. The company gets its primary income from a film library of 6,600 titles that generates an annual $35 million in cash flow, but it scored its first cult hit with 1998's dark fantasy Pi. Coming are more genre films, including Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, as well as works from directors Atom Egoyan, Steven Soderbergh and Jim Jarmusch...
...face of evil in Lost Souls. In End of Days, Arnold Schwarzenegger must stop Satan (Gabriel Byrne) from taking a human bride. Johnny Depp stars in three upscale creepies: as a space traveler in The Astronaut's Wife, as a bookseller searching for an accursed text in Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate and as Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Late this month Samuel L. Jackson will chase, or run like hell from, a pack of very smart sharks in Deep Blue...
They must have been a spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing...
...ROMAN POLANSKI, who these days may be more celebrated as a fugitive from the U.S. justice system than as a director, opened his musical version of Dance of the Vampires in Vienna last week. But in America a drama of a different sort unfolded after it emerged that Polanski's lawyer had had yet another meeting with the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, sparking a rumor that he was cutting a deal to allow the director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris...