Roman Polanski
Kevin Spacey and the rise of uncancel culture
Does the announcement that Spacey is returning to acting suggest a way back for other Hollywood men who were accused but not convicted of misconduct?
Peter Bradshaw
25, May, 2021 @8:18 AM
Polanski announces first new film since being expelled from Academy
Italy’s Rai Cinema is backing a drama by the director wanted in the United States for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl
Andrew Pulver
29, Apr, 2021 @4:53 PM
House of horrors: how cinema turned a safe space into a trap
Long before an age of lockdown, films from Rosemary’s Baby to The Shining and In the Shadow unveiled the home as the ultimate fear
Michael Newton
27, May, 2020 @10:56 AM
I’ve never seen … Chinatown
Even if you’re already aware of the ending, the final moments of the ultimate sunshine noir can shock even the most hardened box-set veteran
Graeme Virtue
09, Apr, 2020 @11:00 AM
The Polanski protests have brought France’s #MeToo reckoning a step closer | Jess McHugh
As Adèle Haenel’s walkout showed, younger feminists have no patience with the ‘separate the artist from their art’ argument, says Paris-based writer Jess McHugh
Jess McHugh
08, Mar, 2020 @11:00 AM
Polanski’s ‘Oscar’ divides elite world of French cinema
Critics say best director award for J’accuse highlights a deep problem in French society
Kim Willsher
01, Mar, 2020 @6:03 AM
Roman Polanski wins best director at French 'Oscars' amid protests
Activists protest against director who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in US but fled before sentencing
Kim Willsher in Paris
28, Feb, 2020 @11:40 PM
When I met Kirk Douglas, did I ask if he’d assaulted Natalie Wood? No, and here’s why | Hadley Freeman
Chucking allegations around is easy, but unsubstantiated rumours aren’t proof of anything
Hadley Freeman
15, Feb, 2020 @9:00 AM
Outrage as Polanski film nominated for 12 'French Oscars'
Campaigners say Césars are acclaiming ‘an abuser and rapist on the run’
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
29, Jan, 2020 @2:47 PM
We should honour the art, not the artist | Letter
Letter: Maybe the time has come to stop deluding ourselves that great work must be created by great people, says Bernard Lyall
Letters
10, Nov, 2019 @5:15 PM
Robert Evans: eloquent and passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave | Peter Bradshaw
The capricious, imperious film figure, who has died aged 89, was a mentor and enabler to directors such as Francis Ford Coppola
Peter Bradshaw
28, Oct, 2019 @5:28 PM
Send in the crowns: in trumping Venice competition, Joker begins grand slam | Xan Brooks
The victory for Todd Phillips’s revisionist comic book blockbuster is a credit to a festival in touch with crazed politics, contemporary paranoia – and superb cinema
Xan Brooks
07, Sep, 2019 @9:53 PM
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