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‘The Palace’: Venice Review

2023-09-02T19:45:00Z

Roman Polanski’s attempted comedy set in a Swiss luxury hotel proves to be anything but five star

Roman Polanski to preside over French Césars

2017-01-18T14:04:00Z

Decision to fete director still haunted by 1977 statutory rape charge sparks controversy in some quarters in France. 

Pathé launch digitisation and restoration project

2012-10-08T12:46:00Z

Over 100 films from Pathé’s catalogue to be restored over the next five years.

Bankside travels with Winterbottom's Trishna starring Pinto, Ahmed

2011-02-10T08:00:00Z

Bankside Films has acquired Michael Winterbottomís next film Trishna, which will star Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Riz Ahmed (Four Lions).

Toronto adds world premieres including Dredd, Alex Gibney's Catholic doc, Finding Nemo 3D

2012-07-31T16:19:00Z

Festival brass announced the second wave of programming on Tuesday (Jul 31), unveiling entries in the Vanguard, Midnight Madness, TIFF Docs, City To City, TIFF Cinematheque and TIFF Kids sections.

Oliver Twist

2005-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dir: Roman Polanski.Fr-UK-Czech Rep. 2005. 128mins.Roman Polanski made thisnew version of Oliver Twist for his children, but it's hard to imaginekids anywhere warming to his austere, colourless treatment of the story.Oliver Twist here evokes both Polanski's traumatic childhood andthe Wladyslaw Szpilman character in The Pianist - a blameless humandesperate to ...

Film veteran Hercules Bellville dies

2009-02-23T14:38:00Z

Hercules Bellville passed away on Saturday February 21at the age of 69 following a fifteen month fight with lung cancer. Born in San Diego, California to an American mother and an English father, Bellville attended boarding school in Britain and went on to study modern languages at Oxford. He started ...

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