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Directed by Roman Polanski...
When filming a seminal piece of English literature like Dickens’ “Oliver Twist,” the conservative choice for a director is to keep the work as loyal to the source material as possible. The truly great directors, such as Roman Polanski, go a step beyond. These directors will never completely betray the original work, yet they give the film a signature feel, whether it is by altering the story to shed new light on the characters or simply creating a rich visual world for the characters to inhabit...
DIED. TONINO DELLI COLLI, 81, prolific Italian cinematographer whose adaptive nature and masterly use of light allowed him to capture the moods of such noted directors as Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski; in Rome. Delli Colli gave a distinct look to every film he worked on--choosing supersaturated hues for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and unadorned black and white for his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He retired his camera after shooting Life Is Beautiful...
...Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes - of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed. Decalogue...
What is ROMAN POLANSKI'S good name worth? 50,000 ($87,000) plus court costs, according to a London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...