Roman Polanski

Director, Actor

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Generation, A (Pokolenie) (1954): Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Roman Polanski; Fast–moving account of the Polish Resistance during WWII, as a scrappy young recruit falls in love with his unit leader. Depicts the spirited,…
Knife in the Water (1962): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz; The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…
Repulsion (1965): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Catherine Deneuve; Polanski's tour–de–force of urban sexual paranoia. Catherine Deneuve has an obsessive fear of men which slowly descends her into madness.…
Cul-de-Sac (1966): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Donald Pleasence; Polanski's influential, absurdist comedy concerns an eccentric couple taken captive by a pair of old gangsters in their Northumbrian castle. Stars…
Fearless Vampire Killers, The (1967): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate; Typically twisted spoof oddity on vampire movies, with Polanski's then wife Sharon Tate.
Rosemary's Baby (1968): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Mia Farrow; First major film to deal with the occult as subject matter has lost little of its potency. The trauma of pregnancy is heightened for Mia Farrow as…
Magic Christian, The (1969): Dir. Joseph McGrath
Feat. Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough…; From Terry Southern's novel, a wildly loopy satire about an eccentric multi–millionaire (Peter Sellers) who adopts a destitute son (Ringo…
Macbeth (1971): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jon Finch, Francesca Annis; This version of violent tragedy benefits from Polanski's fine sense of storytelling. Bloodythirsty and geniunely eerie, it comes…
Weekend of a Champion (1972): Dir. Frank Simon
Feat. Roman Polanski; A fascinating cinéma vérité project filmed during Formula One's heydays, which eavesdrops on a series of conversations and hang outs between…
Chinatown (1974): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, John Huston…; Classic detective thriller in the Hammett–Chandler tradition, with Jack Nicholson as P.I. Jake Gittes, whose simple case leads to murder and…
Tenant, The (1976): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters; Polanski himself plays an introverted office clerk who undergos a psycho–sexual mutation while residing in a seedy high–rise apartment.…
Tess (1982): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Nastassja Kinski; Though beautifully shot, Thomas Hardy's classic novel gets a surprisingly mild treatment from dir. Roman Polanski. Wessex farmgirl Nastassja Kinski…
Frantic (1988): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner, Betty Buckley…; Harrison Ford plays a surgeon who becomes involved in the Paris underworld when his wife disappears on their first day abroad. A clever and…
Bitter Moon (1993): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Emmanuelle Seigner…; Erotic weirdness unfolds aboard an ocean liner as wheel–chaired creep Peter Coyote foists an unsavoury personal tale upon innocent Hugh Grant.…
Death and the Maiden (1994): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley; Polanski exacts consummate control in rendering an electrifying stageplay for the screen. The dialogue blisters, the acting transfixes, the tension…
Grosse Fatigue (1994): Dir. Michel Blanc
Feat. Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret…; Popular comedian Michel Blanc gently bites the hand that feeds him in this irreverent farce in which the entire cast, including himself and the…
Pure Formality, A (Una pura formalità) (1996): Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski; A chilling interrogation of an elusive murder suspect transpires under weather most foul. Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu face–off…
Ninth Gate, The (2000): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin…; An unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) is sent to Europe by a mysterious tycoon (Frank Langella) to recover an authentic, elusive (and of course,…
Pianist, The (2002): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay; Boldly visualised, fact–based drama concerning the Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who evaded Poland’s Nazi authorities during WW2, living…
Oliver Twist (2005): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley; The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic sees prominent Polish dir. Polanski helm an artful, if not straightforward interpretation of the…
Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007): Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August; 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
Ghost Writer, The (2010): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams…; A cracking yarn in unapologetic Hitchcock mould has Ewan McGregor hired to complete the memoirs of a Tony Blair–like former British prime…
Carnage (2011): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly…; Two sets of parents resort to increasingly childish tactics over an altercation between their sons in this fiery war of words directed by Roman…
Venus in Fur (2013): Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric; Roman Polanski masterfully adapts David Ives' play–within–a–play about an actress who goes to great lengths to convince a director…

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