Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

A brilliant work! I cannot say it otherwise. The fact that even Polanski himself likes this film tells the whole story (as confirmed by his longtime friend and collaborator Andrew Braunsberg, who was present at the screening in Vienna today). It... Full review

A brilliant work! I cannot say it otherwise. The fact that even Polanski himself likes this film tells the whole story (as confirmed by his longtime friend and collaborator Andrew Braunsberg, who was present at the screening in Vienna today). It... Full review

We all know director Roman Polanski as that guy whose wife was murdered by the Manson Family, a brilliant artist with films such as Chinatown, and a statutory rapist who fled the country and never returned. Amidst the controversial win of... Full review

When the name Roman Polanski comes up, most people in this country only think of one thing: PEDOPHILE,or PERVERT. This documentary manages to crack open the case of just why Roman Polanski,who at the time was a respected director who had... Full review

Roman Polanski's name, while illustrious, is clouded by both tragedy and scandal. Tragedy because his parents died in the Holocaust and his wife Sharon Tate, when eight months pregnant, was horribly murdered in the Manson Family massacre, scandal because of a... Full review

Roman Polanski's life reads like a work of fiction. Tolstoi, Nabokov, Pasternak even Stephen King and Jackie Collins. The fact that it's not fiction but fact makes it overwhelming. He came from a world in which evil had taken away... Full review

Returning from Sundance (2008), I've concluded this is by far the best documentary I've seen this year. Roman Polanski is a great artist, there is no doubt his directing style has left an imprint on American films. Mention Polanski's name... Full review

The term documentary implies something based on documents. Facts. The truth. Isn't it funny how often documentaries show documents alright, but just not all of the documents, or maybe purposefully selected documents. Just imagine a documentary about the criminal justice... Full review

Documentary about Roman Polanski and his flight from America after having sex with a girl of about 16. It talks about his dealing with the brutal murder of his wife Sharon Tate and implies that that event might have made... Full review

Two 80-something film veterans, called The Reel Geezers review this documentary. One of the Reel Geezers is actually in the documentary, Lorenzo Semple Jr. he actually worked with Polanski and is a friend. So, obviously these are not your average... Full review

," the documentary the director's supporters find persuasive.... ... Full Review

Bad art is supposed to be harmless, but the 2008 film "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," about the notorious child-sex case against the fugitive director, has become an absolute menace. Indeed, the judge even gave Polanski more than he deserved, saying that he might actually have a case. ... Full Review

A California judge yesterday refused to approve a request filed by director Roman Polanski's lawyers to have his child sex case dropped as long as he is still a fugitive. Claiming the Polanski case details published in the press are a constant reminder of her trauma over 30 years ago, Samantha Geimer insisted in a written declaration to the court in early January that she wants the charges against Polanski dropped. ... Full Review

Zenovich's fascinating film puts them in a different light --....Using film clips and a great many rare bits of news and publicity film, Zenovich and her writer/editor Joe Bini tell two stories.....He's prominent in discotheque footage from the legendary short film Tonight Let's All Make Love In London....Wanted and Desired is a top-quality enhanced encoding of this smartly organized and smoothly edited documentary.....The better part of Wanted and Desired shows the circus atmosphere of Polanski's prelimina ... Full Review

A little more digging and less bias on part of the director and this could have been a great film. Filmmaker Marina Zenovich's documentary " Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired " paints a portrait of justice perverted in the rape case of film director Roman Polanski. ... Full Review

October 23, 2009, ( Sawf News ) - A Swiss official told Europe-1 radio that Roman Polanski couldn't be asked to serve more than 2 years in the US based on the extradition request. ... Full Article

The United States has made an official request to Switzerland for famed director Roman Polanski to be extradited. Polanski has been under arrest since late September. ... Full Article

Connect to Facebook/Twitter, recommend via email and much more. My generation grew up thinking the high profile court case from our era was the O.J. ... Full Article

You know the tide has turned on Roman Polanski 's campaign for child rape forgiveness when even the French have defected from the director's camp. ... Full Article

I really did not want to write about this issue, but the arrest and impending extradition hearings of filmmaker Roman Polanski are so sordid that I just cannot get his case off my mind. ... Full Article

LOS ANGELES -- A former prosecutor says he made up a story he told a film crew about advising a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case to send the director to prison. ... Full Article