It’s all a bit grim, and the bleak mood is reflected in the decision to have most of the action take place in the wee hours.

In a stunning Oscar upset, Roman Polanski - who cannot set foot in ... Polanski previously was nominated for directing the 1974 film "Chinatown" and the 1979 drama "Tess." He also received a ...

Born into a humble family in New York in 1973, Adrien Brody catapulted to global fame in 2002 after winning the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Roman Polanski's 'The Pianist'. Notably, at 29, he ...

Other notable nominations included director Coralie Fargeat, actor Yura Borisov and actress Fernanda Torres The post 2025 Oscar Milestones: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Breaks All-Time Record, Musicals Score Big ...

Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly and more take us directly into the vibe of period and place: Into those steps there are paths not taken: Ideas not understood ...

However, this is incredibly conflicting when it comes to the work of one director, Roman Polanski. Chinatown is one of those near-perfect projects that becomes more insidious when you untangle the ...

To read the novella is to hope that Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) will option it for a movie, or that Roman Polanski (Chinatown) will get ahold of it. The characters (including Eve ...

However you slice it, he is one of the greats. If all that wasn’t enough, there’s also the small matter of Chinatown. Released in 1974, this Roman Polanski-directed noir mystery stars Nicholson as JJ ...

I t’s been 50 years since John Schlesinger’s film The Day of the Locust, based on the novel by Nathanael West, predicted “the Burning of Los Angeles.” That was the title o ...

Also, animation this beautiful takes a long time to painstakingly create. We get it. Original Chinatown director Roman Polanski couldn’t direct — not in America, anyway — because he had fled the ...