Not a lot happens, in the usual sense of movie action, in ''Carnage,''Roman Polanski's swift and spry adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play: voices are raised; whiskey is drunk; leftover fruit cobbler is consumed and (spoiler alert!) vomited. A few slightly more dramatic events have already taken place before the action starts. There has been a...
IN 1938, a month after the Nazi assault on German Jews known as Kristallnacht made headlines across the world, Walt Disney gave Hitler's pet filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, a tour of his studio. He showed her some Mickey Mouse sketches, and she offered to show him ''Olympia,'' her cinematic slog through the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He turned her down...
VENICE -- With 10 English-language films in competition out of a total of 22 (with one ''surprise film'' that had still not been announced), many of them with star-studded casts, this year's Venice film festival began to look like not just a competition for the Venice awards but an early airing of several productions and performances with...
Roman Polanski (født 18. august 1933 i Paris, Frankrig) er en polsk filminstruktør. Hans forældre vendte tilbage til Polen to år før 2. verdenskrig brød ud.
Han begyndte at lave film i Polen, men indspillede også film i resten af Europa. Under indspilningen af Vampyrernes nat mødte han Sharon Tate, som han senere giftede sig med. Sharon Tate blev sammen med nogle af deres venner myrdet af Charles Mansons gruppe i 1969; hun var gravid i ottende måned og blev dræbt med 16 knivstik . Barnet, en dreng, døde sammmen med hende.
Polanski har også lejlighedsdvist instrueret teater, som i 1974 med Alban Bergs opera Lulu (i den da ukomplette version), til Spoleto-festivalen dette år. Alban Bergs depravrede og dekante miljø (Lulu er en prostitueret der bliver myrdet af Jack the Ripper, mens elskerinden, den lesbiske grevinde Geschwitz er ved at klæde om), passer som fod i hose til Polanskis univers. Fold ud