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Author: Samantha Geimer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1476716846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Breaking a thirty-five year silence, the girl at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case reflects on the events of that day and tells how her life was irrevocably altered by the rape and subsequent media attention.
Author: Roman Polanski
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780434591800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the long-forgotten and long out-of-print memoir of a genius storyteller...as great as his greatest movie. 20th Anniversary of the original publication.
Author: James Greenberg
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781419707216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of Roman Polanski's career from his early work such as 'Knife in the Water', through to his latest masterpiece, 'Carnage'.
Author: Ewa Mazierska
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2007-05-25
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0857716557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Polanski is one of the most talented and distinguished of modern film makers. A well-informed cultural traveller, interested in the position of the outsider, he is hard to pigeonhole: he moves easily between mass audience and art-house tastes, between settings and genres; his films, including 'Two Men and a Wardrobe', 'Cul de Sac', 'Rosemary?s Baby', 'The Pianist' and 'Oliver Twist', represent diverse characters and cinematic influences. Like a magpie, he?s interested in everything he encounters, but then easily discards his treasures and moves onward. Covering all Polanski?s films as director, this welcome book addresses the eclecticism, ambiguity and paradoxes of his cinema, while seeking out the common elements in his films. Ewa Mazierska examines the autobiographical effect of Polanski?s films, his characters and diverse narratives, and the place of absurdism, surrealism and the ?double life? of things in his cinema. She looks into the function of music, of religion, power, patriarchy and racism in the films, as well as Polanski?s literary adaptations and his use and subversion of film genres. Herself a Polish emigre, she uncovers Polanski's Polish roots and the extent of their influence on the cinema of this mercurial film maker, at large in the world.
Author: Julia Ain-Krupa
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-12-21
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0313377812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers an examination of the films of Roman Polanski, focusing on the impact that his life as an exile has had upon his work. Roman Polanski: A Life in Exile is a revealing look at this acclaimed filmmaker whose life in exile seems to have made his films all the more personal and powerful. Written by a film critic, this insightful book follows Polanski's story from his childhood in a World War II Jewish ghetto to his early films in Poland; from his American breakout, Rosemary's Baby, to his wife's murder by the Manson family; from the spectacular return of Chinatown, to his exile as a convicted sex criminal, to the monumental career peak, The Pianist. The Holocaust, the oppression of communism, the shattering of the swinging 60s, the decadence of Hollywood, the life of a fugitive—Polanski experienced all of these firsthand, and understanding those experiences provides a fascinating pathway through his work.
Author: Thomas Kiernan
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780394513966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Ehrenstein
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782866429171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today.
Author: Daniel Bird
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Polanski, a world-famous BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning director and Oscar nominee, has made headlines both for his fabulous films, including 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Macbeth', 'Chinatown' and 'The Ninth Gate', and his shocking personal life, which included the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by Charlie Manson and later being accused of drugging and raping an underage girl. This little book provides an introduction to the man and the director, reviews and analyses each of his movies, and includes a handy multi-media reference section.
Author: Sam Wasson
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1250301831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written. Praise for Sam Wasson: "Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker "Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als
